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Search results for "Make our Sun sentient to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars"

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Fact-checks (25251)

Instagram posts stated on May 16, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“Sunflowers are turning away from the sun because that’s not the sun.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 30, 2024
Facebook posts stated on July 29, 2022 in a Facebook post:
"The Sun is out of place, the Moon is out of place and the stars are out of place. The compasses are off" because of a shift in the Earth’s poles.
By Grace Abels• August 3, 2022
X posts stated on July 24, 2023 in a tweet:
ESPN soccer analyst Shaka Hislop collapsed on air because of the COVID-19 vaccine.
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 24, 2023
Joseph Levy stated on February 25, 2013 in a legislative hearing :
Says indoor workers get "less UV than outdoor workers, but they get more melanomas."
By Janie Har• March 16, 2013
Facebook posts stated on July 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Claims the James Webb Space Telescope is “fakery they got for the masses”
By Andy Nguyen• July 18, 2022
Colleen Kiernan stated on May 14, 2012 in an interview:
"For every one mile of light-rail track that will be built, 16 miles of new road capacity will be built."  
By Eric Stirgus• May 25, 2012
Facebook posts stated on June 25, 2023 in a Facebook reel:
NASA warns of “internet apocalypse,” which “means they can execute the Great Reset in silence without anyone knowing it.”
By Sara Swann• June 29, 2023
Facebook posts stated on February 21, 2022 in an article:
"Bill Gates hatches 'horribly stupid' plan to block out the sun"
By Monique Curet• February 25, 2022
Greg Murphy stated on March 16, 2020 in a tweet:
“Sunlight actually can kill the (novel coronavirus.)”
By Paul Specht• March 20, 2020
Sarah Palin stated on February 01, 2016 in an interview on CNN:
Says Donald Trump's conversion to pro-life beliefs are akin to Justin Bieber's, who said in the past that abortion "was no big deal to him."
By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• February 5, 2016
David Brooks stated on December 09, 2011 in a column in the New York Times:
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.
By Louis Jacobson• December 12, 2011
Facebook posts stated on June 28, 2024 in a Facebook post:
“WNBA organizers have officially announced an investigation into the referees in all of Caitlin Clark's games for ignoring all dirty actions by her opponents against her.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 3, 2024
Joe Biden stated on March 26, 2024 in a speech:
Says Donald Trump “told Americans all they had to do was inject bleach in themselves. Just take a shot of UV light.”
By Paul Specht• March 28, 2024
Instagram posts stated on July 28, 2023 in a video:
“Skin cancer is a relatively new phenomenon in the last 60 years or so.”
By Tom Kertscher• August 1, 2023
Bloggers stated on April 09, 2018 in a web post:
Says Buzz Aldrin "passes UFO lie detector test leaving experts convinced that he encountered alien life."
By Louis Jacobson• April 10, 2018
Chain email stated on July 16, 2012 in a chain email:
The media won’t publish a real photo of Trayvon Martin with tattoos on his face.
By Katie Sanders• July 17, 2012
Viral image stated on April 23, 2024 in a Facebook post:
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “The moon is more important than the sun as the moon gives us light at night when it is dark out. The sun only gives us light during the day when it is already light out.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 1, 2024
Jon Kyl stated on April 11, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
Says he did not say Republicans would filibuster immigration reform.
By Angie Drobnic Holan• April 12, 2010
Charlie Crist stated on November 18, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
"We’re the Sunshine State, and we’re hardly doing any solar energy production."
By Rochelle Koff• December 3, 2013
Facebook posts stated on May 08, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“The sun prevents skin cancer.”
By Loreben Tuquero• May 11, 2023

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Why Trump’s comments on using disinfectants, sunlight to treat COVID-19 are wrong

By Daniel Funke• April 24, 2020

A look at the claims that scorched in 2014

By April Hunt• December 22, 2014

Do you need SPF 30, 50 or 100? We answer your burning sunscreen questions

By Madison Czopek• May 26, 2026

The week in fact-checking: Biden's accuser, coronavirus testing

By Angie Drobnic Holan• May 1, 2020

Lawmakers, Perry stand up for incandescents

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• June 21, 2011

Is gel nail polish safe? Answers on UV lights and ‘banned’ chemicals

By Grace Abels• March 2, 2026

In Context: What Donald Trump said about disinfectant, sun and coronavirus

By Daniel Funke• April 24, 2020

What a government study suggests about sunlight and COVID-19

By Amy Sherman• April 24, 2020

What did ‘The Best of Enemies’ get right?

By Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan• April 5, 2019

Can ChatGPT fact-check? PolitiFact tested

By Grace Abels• May 30, 2023

NBA bubble keeps virus contained, but not misinformation

By Bill McCarthy• August 5, 2020

How treatment of ectopic pregnancy fits into post-Roe medical care

By Nuria Diaz Muñoz, Maria Ramirez Uribe• June 30, 2022

Obama's Rezko connection

By Robert Farley• October 25, 2008

Jon Hamm, documents say, hazed, hurt UT student in 1990

By W. Gardner Selby• April 10, 2015

How should top-tier sports be handling the coronavirus?

By Louis Jacobson• June 18, 2021

What is critical race theory, and why are conservatives blocking it?

By Jon Greenberg, Amy Sherman• May 24, 2021

“Boys, boys!”: Repetition doesn’t improve Rauner, Pritzker sniping

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller• October 14, 2018

PolitiFact Florida to appear in Halifax Media Group newspapers

By Angie Drobnic Holan• August 12, 2014

Obama wrong that insurance delay caused death

By Louis Jacobson• September 17, 2009

Mailbag: "Reassign the PolitiFact staff to obits."

By • December 13, 2010