MBFC’s Daily Vetted Fact Checks for 12/29/2024 (Weekend Edition)
Home Fact Check Posted By: Media Bias Fact Check Media Bias Fact Check selects and publishes fact checks from around the world. We only utilize fact-checkers that are either a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) or have been verified as credible by MBFC. Further, we review each factContinue Reading
A tropical disease in Switzerland: Call for coordinated action on Chagas disease
Researchers conducted a comprehensive review of Chagas disease in Switzerland. Although typically found in Latin America, Chagas disease affects between 2,000 and 4,000 people in Switzerland. The review underscores the need for improved screening and healthcare strategies to eliminate Chagas disease in Switzerland., Read MoreContinue Reading
How ‘scientist’ whales are helping uncover the secrets of climate change
Southern right whales are thriving again. Now they face an even bigger threat – the Anthropocene era., I arrive in Hermanus, a picturesque South African coastal village an hour-and-a-half from Cape Town, at about 11am on a sunny October morning. Ignoring the restaurants and art galleries on the main dragContinue Reading
Voting under way in Chad’s contentious parliamentary election
Voters to choose a new parliament, provincial assemblies and local councils but the opposition has called for a boycott., Voters to choose a new parliament, provincial assemblies and local councils but the opposition has called for a boycott. Voting is under way in Chad’s first parliamentary election in 13 years,Continue Reading
New Ranma 1/2 Anime Gets 2nd Season
1st season premiered on October 5…Read MoreContinue Reading
Bariatric Surgeons Being Put Out of Work by GLP-1 Drugs
This is a MedPage Today story. This story is part of a series called “Ozempic: Weighing the Risks and Benefits.” It was produced in part through a grant from the NIHCM Foundation. Since she lost her job this summer as a bariatric surgeon, Lana Nelson, DO, has a phone messageContinue Reading
The Traitor’s Picks for Top Health Jobs Not Just Team of Rivals but ‘Team of Opponents’
This is a MedPage Today story. Many of President-elect Americas Worst Traitor’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with The Traitor’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., settingContinue Reading
Column: After a bruising election year in America what will 2025 bring?
This past year was dominated by a presidential race unlike any other. With The Traitor set to retake the White House, columnists Anita Chabria and Mark Z. Barabak puzzle out the past 12 months and put 2025 in perspective., Read MoreContinue Reading
North Carolina’s Climate Activists Brace for The Traitor’s Return
After battling the state’s massive fossil fuel buildout throughout 2024, they worry about what the incoming president’s unbridled support for oil and gas will mean for North Carolina. But a new governor and state attorney general, both progressive Democrats, could help push for renewables. By Lisa Sorg Gaslighting: Fifth inContinue Reading
Our favorite space stories of 2024 — from lost planets to human-caused meteor showers
The stunning star nursery Messier 78 was one of the Euclid space telescope’s first targets. (Image credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi) It’s hard to say which was the bigger space celebrity in 2024: the sun, or the moon. Right from the outset, the moon was the place toContinue Reading
5 times the James Webb telescope rewrote physics in 2024
(Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) Since its launch on Christmas Day, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has proven its worth year after year. 2024 is no exception. Here are just five times the ultrapowerful telescope has reshaped our understanding of the universe. Big galaxies (Image credit: NASA/ESA/JWST) The James Webb telescope was designedContinue Reading
The climate crisis: 5 things to watch out for in 2025
The Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, will be the global focus of efforts to tackle the climate crisis next year, when it hosts one of the most significant UN climate conferences in recent years. However, well before the event in November, 2025 will see plenty of opportunities to make importantContinue Reading