Fact Checking Organizations & Bias Raters - Fact Checking the News - GALILEO@UGA Subject Guides at University of Georgia. Nonpartisan Fact-Checking Websites in the US: FactCheck.org - (Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania).
Fact checks political and scientific statements, videos etc., as well as talking points of political parties and presidential speeches. If you run across a claim that hasn't been fact checked, you can submit it to this organization for review. They have partnered with Facebook to factcheck Facebook posts flagged by Facebook users. Myth busters. Assistant Professor, University of Regina. Science-Based Medicine. Robert Bryce: Renewable Energy’s Incurable Scale Problem. It’s summer.
It’s hot. And once again, we are hearing from the usual suspects that we must change our entire way of living. Pseudoscience, common sense, and the problem of scale. Scientists are increasingly frustrated by laypeople’s willingness to embrace pseudoscience.
In an age of extraordinary technical achievement, the persistence of nonsense beliefs like creationism, vaccine rejection, and homeopathy is difficult to fathom. But Scott Lilienfeld, a psychology professor at Emory University, argues that we should be anything but surprised. The Skeptical OB. Mr. Deity.
Myths and Misconceptions Blog.