Health
The Joe Rogan podcast misused English Covid-19 data
A guest misused a PHE report, which does not show that vaccinated people are more likely to catch the disease Read
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Leo Benedictus
Journalist
Leo joined Full Fact in January 2020. For 15 years, he worked freelance as a feature writer for the Guardian, Prospect, the New Scientist and others, making maps of immigration, explaining citizens’ assemblies and debunking superfoods. He has a fondness for science and statistics. He also writes novels.
Health
The Covid-19 virus has been isolated many times in Spain—and elsewhere
The fact that the Spanish Ministry of Health doesn’t have its own viral cultures doesn’t mean it thinks they don’t exist. Read
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Health
The Covid-19 vaccines do protect against severe disease
There are more vaccinated people in hospital with Covid because the vast majority of vulnerable people have now been vaccinated. Read
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Health
Study doesn’t prove that statins ‘cut’ the risk of dying from Covid
A headline in the Daily Express was wrong to say that statins actually caused a lower death rate among people taking them. Read
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A ‘Guardian’ headline about the Insulate Britain protests is fake
The newspaper did not report that a protester was delayed in traffic caused by another Insulate Britain protest. Read
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Crime
Most police have not been found guilty of sexual misconduct
This claim comes from confusion over another statistic, about the proportion of those in one force found to have committed sexual misconduct who kept their jobs. Read
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No evidence Jodie Foster said that attacking the rich was ‘self-defence’
The real source of this comment is uncertain, but it may have originated on Twitter in 2014. Read
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We do know that Covid-19 vaccines work
A video of Bill Gates saying we don’t know whether vaccines work comes from July 2020, when the results of the Covid-19 vaccine trials had not yet been published. Read
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Chevening isn’t 'taxpayer-funded' in the usual sense
It’s paid for by a public trust—but that trust is exempt from income tax and appears to have received at least some taxpayer money in the past. Read
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A video does not show anti-Rothschild protests
It shows a demonstration against pandemic rules outside the parliament building in Bern, Switzerland. Read
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