Sunday, October 19th, 2014
The deadliness of Ebola that has doctors like this one in Germany donning full body protection has spurred conspiracy theories in the United States. (Getty Images)

Ebola vaccine research and NIH funding cuts: reviewing the numbers

Ebola research is heavily dependent on NIH funding -- but is it so dependent that the organization’s budget cuts have put vaccine development on the back burner?

 

• PolitiFact Wisconsin: Previewing the second governor's debate

• PolitiFact Florida: Did the rules of the debate say there would be no fan?

• PunditFact: Top 5 falsehoods about Ebola

The Latest from PolitiFact

Half-True

Most mutations go nowhere

Pants on Fire!

Once again, fake news passed off as real

Mostly False

Census data tells the tale

True

We read the reports so you don't have to

True

First he said on top of natural growth, then he denied it

False

Law on hold; future uncertain

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Wisconsin's photo ID election law

— PolitiFact Wisconsin

Mostly False

Only asked questions can be addressed in depositions

False

Lots of actors in Digital Domain failure but wasn't a Ponzi scheme

Half-True

Puts words in our mouth

Mostly True

Being against the farm bill isn't the same as opposing farmers

False

Social science without the science