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#Health
False: Delays to using a defibrillator puts "heart attack victims" at higher risk of death.
Defibrillators are used in cardiac arrest, not heart attacks. People who have had heart attacks need urgent medical treatment, but not CPR. (Source: Full Fact)
Barely-True: “Norway, Finland, Sweden, Holland, and the UK have now banned gender transition surgery for minors.”
Europe doesn’t ban gender-affirming care in the way some American states have by enacting laws to restrict access. Rather, care in these European countries is often dictated by health policy and guidelines. Experts say that most transgender adolescents aren’t considering surgical care before they turn 18, and that such care is rare even in places where the procedures are legal. (Source: PolitiFact)
Pollination: Do not eat watermelon cracks because the cracks are caused by the pesticide forchlorfenuron.
Cracks insdie a watermelon is caused by poor pollination and it has no effect on the safety of eating the fruit. It is a natural condition or defect. (Source: Lead Stories)
#Strømpris
Ritktig: Likevel har de (Ryfylke) landets dyreste strømpriser, mange ganger så høy som på Østlandet.
Dette er helt riktig. Ryfylke ligger i markedsområde NO2, som har langt høyere strømpriser enn resten av landet. Siden ekstremværet «Hans» har prisen vært nesten fem ganger så høy som Østlandet. (Source: Faktisk)
Riktig: Mer vindkraft kommer ikke til å gi folk i Ryfylke billigere strøm.
Dette er i praksis riktig. For at det skal ha noen effekt på strømprisen må det bygges i en skala som ikke lar seg gjøre på kort sikt. På lengre sikt vil utbygging kunne ha betydning for strømprisen. (Source: Faktisk)
#Other
Half True: Children who miss one day of the first week of school are around 40% more likely to become persistently absent later on in the school year.
Statistics from the Department for Education suggest that pupils absent for at least one day in the first week of term were substantially more likely to be persistently absent. But they don't confirm the exact increase of 40%. (Source: Full Fact)
#WTF?! What The Fact?! of the week
False: Obesity kills 2.8 billion people a year.
A World Health Organisation estimate put the number of deaths caused by being obese or overweight at 2.8 million, not billion. (Source: Full Fact)
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