Your weekly fact-checks
#Climate
False: “13 nations agree to abolish farming in order to save the planet.”
A European Union Times headline shared on Instagram misrepresented a commitment made by 13 countries, including the United States, to reduce methane emissions from the agricultural sector. These countries did not agree to "abolish farming. Global organizations have proposed reducing methane emissions, but these do not include getting rid of farming. (Source: PolitiFact)
#Nordics
Falsk: Er Danmark og Sverige alene om at tillade koranafbrændinger? Regeringens skræmmebillede afvises af juraforskere
Ifølge Folketingets formand, Søren Gade (V), kan man ikke lovligt brænde Koranen af i Norge. Men Norge har helt samme lovgivning på området som Sverige og Danmark, hvor man godt må brænde Koranen af. (Source: Tjekdet)
Misvisende: Smertestillende medicin med acetylsalicylsyre kan redde dit liv, hvis du får et hjerteanfald, og alle over 65 år bør derfor have pillerne på sig
Danske eksperter og Sundhedsstyrelsen vil ikke tilslutte anbefalingen, blandt andet fordi risikoen for fejlbehandling er for stor. Den norske lægemiddelstyrelse oplyser, at anbefalingen ikke er officiel, men mener samtidig, at det kan have værdi at bruge acetylsalicylsyre i visse akutte situationer. (Source: Tjekdet)
#Other
False: “A lot of your chain-food restaurants have been using (lab-grown meat) for years.”
Lab-grown meat, or cell-cultivated meat, creates real meat from animal cells. Two companies, Good Meat and Upside Foods, in June received U.S. government approval to sell lab-grown chicken to consumers. Each company has made the chicken available only at one restaurant, neither of which is part of a major fast-food chain. (Source: PolitiFact)
True: The James Webb Telescope discovered a "question mark" formation in space.
An image that went viral in August 2023 genuinely depicted a "question mark" formation in space. (Source: Snopes)
False: A third of people hospitalised with malnutrition in the UK in the year to April 2023 were children.
This is not correct. It comes from FOI data reported by the Times, which shows that about 3% of malnutrition admissions in England were children in the year to April 2023. (Source: Full Fact)
False: There is an extreme sunburn competition in Florida
There is no evidence of a sunburn contest in Florida, and photos from a so-called extreme sunburn competition in online posts are not authentic. (Source: Reuters)
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