AAP FactCheck Articles

Crewed flight altitude claim is a space oddity

A moon landing conspiracy theorist says humans can't fly higher than 620 kilometres above earth.

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UK data skewed to claim vaccines raise child mortality rates

Anti-vaccination campaigners are misusing British figures to assert children receiving COVID-19 vaccines are more likely to die.

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Sunny outlook on global warming's causes denies scientific evidence

A social media post says carbon dioxide has nothing to do with climate change and claims "the Sun is the cause".

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Processed foods contain human fetal cells claim is pure junk

A meme's assertion that food flavourings are made from aborted babies is hard to swallow.

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Cold, hard facts missing from Antarctic cooling post

Scientists pour cold water over a claim that Antarctica has been getting colder over the past 40 years.

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Climate sceptic's shot at Aussie data misses net warming facts

Two cooler La Niña years have been cherry-picked to claim the temperature in Australia hasn't changed in the past decade.

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Scientists never warmed to the idea of global cooling

A Facebook user reheats misinformation that the majority of climate experts in the 1970s believed we were headed for an ice age.

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Victorian COVID update a data dilemma for Instagram group

A post misinterprets Victorian vaccination figures to claim over 94 per cent who received the first two doses have the virus.

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Dutton misleads with Shorten Robodebt claim

The coalition leader has told reporters the Robodebt scheme began under the previous Labor government.

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Brain damage link to MSG a salty dose of misinformation

An alternative medicine and wellness advocate claims the common food enhancing salt causes "micro-strokes".

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Microwave meme cooks up cancer food fears

A social media post claims cooking your food in a microwave oven can increase cancerous cells.

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Injection of truth required for vaccine illness claim

A social media post has taken aim at a report on The Project.

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Nanowires crossed in claim linking patent to 5G and COVID-19

A US conspiracy theorist says a chemist patented a device to allow 5G radiation to control coronavirus particles in 2015.

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Greens senator wrong on Indigenous consultation claim

Dorinda Cox claimed 60 per cent of participants in the First Nations Regional Dialogue events were non-Indigenous.

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Germ theory denialists are spreading poxy misinformation

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to wacky pseudoscience from the 1940s being recycled to claim germs don't cause illness.

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Doctored 'communism' banner spins the truth

Top Marx for the photoshop effort but there's no revolution on the cards in New Zealand, just a digitally altered image.

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Wee problem with claim drinking urine cures diseases

Experts say the liquid bodily waste is mostly salty water and consuming it has no medicinal value.

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HAARP weather control conspiracy is off in the clouds

A social media conspiracy theory grossly overestimates the power of a US research facility.

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Claim COVID vaccines are deadlier than virus is jibber-jabber

An anti-vaccination group's legal advisor is just plain wrong on his tally of jab-related COVID-19 deaths.

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Sideways view of global temperatures is nonsense

Despite social media claims to contrary, data shows that temperatures have increased significantly over the past 25 years.

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