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RFK Jr.’s Exaggerations on Chronic Disease in Children
Para leer en español, vea esta traducción de El Tiempo Latino. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has given children’s health and the “chronic disease epidemic” a prominent role...
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Trump, Social Media Posts Mislead on Olympic Woman Boxer
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. On Aug. 1, a second round welterweight women’s boxing match at the Paris Olympics between Italy and Algeria sparked a controversy over...
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Trump Misleads on the Cost of Electric Vehicle Chargers
In recent speeches, former President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Biden administration has spent $9 billion to build only eight electric vehicle charging stations — or even, just eight...
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Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Activities Are Not Evidence of a Conspiracy
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Flu viruses have a long history of making animals and humans sick. This includes a track record of causing pandemics, which can occur...
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Trump Revives — and Further Decreases — His Absurdly Low Estimate of Sea...
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. On the campaign trail this summer, former President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubt on climate change by falsely claiming that the...
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Trump Clings to Inaccurate Climate Change Talking Points
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Former President Donald Trump, who has famously called climate change a “hoax” for many years, hasn’t used the word lately with respect...
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Q&A on the Second International Mpox Emergency
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In 2022, mpox — a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which is found in small mammals and has been known to infect people in parts of...
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Posts Sharing Mpox Misinformation Recycle Claims from Prior Viral Outbreaks
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. SciCheck Digest Responding to rising mpox cases in Africa, the World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of...
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Baseless Claims Proliferate on Hurricanes and Weather Modification
SciCheck Digest Experts say people cannot create or meaningfully alter hurricanes through existing weather modification techniques. That has not stopped a deluge of social media posts baselessly...
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Q&A on the 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccines
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the fall and...
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Florida’s 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance Misunderstands, Distorts...
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. An abundance of evidence indicates the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are remarkably safe and work well to protect against severe disease. But...
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Harris vs. Trump on Climate Change
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have starkly different track records on climate change. During his...
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Trump Embraces RFK Jr.’s Views on Vaccines, Fluoride
In the waning days of his campaign, former President Donald Trump has further embraced some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s incorrect or controversial views on health, including vaccines and fluoride. In a...
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As Trump Taps RFK Jr. for Health Secretary, a Look Back at Kennedy’s Claims
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In one of his most controversial Cabinet picks, President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the...
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Sen. Mullin’s Misleading Vaccine Testing Claim
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, misleadingly suggested that vaccines might...
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Fox News Commentator Had Aggressive Cancer Before COVID-19 Vaccines Were...
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. SciCheck Digest Fox News health commentator Dr. Kelly Powers was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer, in...
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Where Trump’s Picks for EPA, Interior and Energy Stand on Climate Change
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. President-elect Donald Trump announced his nominations to lead key offices tasked with delivering his campaign promise of cutting fossil...
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What We Know About What Led to the L.A. Wildfires
Multiple fires continue to burn in the Los Angeles area after flames have razed neighborhoods, forced mass evacuations and claimed at least 27 lives over more than a week. Some fires have been...
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Kennedy Repeats False and Misleading Claims in Confirmation Hearing
In his first Senate confirmation hearing to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated claims we have written about before on vaccines and chronic...
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Q&A on Trump’s Impending Exit from the World Health Organization
As part of a rash of executive orders completed on his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump began the nation’s exit from the World Health Organization, the U.N agency dedicated to...
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