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debunkthis·DebunkThisbyKabe

The r/DebunkThis Wiki

[All links go direct to Reddit. If you don't want to send traffic their way, I suggest using a browser extension such as LibRedirect.]

Topics in alphabetical order:

5G/EMF

9/11

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Pandemic (for vaccine-specific claims, see 'Vaccines')

i. Masks

ii. Statistics

iii. Origin

iv. Detection & Testing

v. Lockdowns & Miscellaneous

Flat Earth

Holocaust Denial

JFK Assassination

Moon Landing / Apollo 16

NWO / Illuminati / The Great Reset

Pizzagate / Paedophile Rings

Politics

Social Issues (Non-racial)

**Social Issues (Racial)

Scientific Racism a.k.a 'Race Realism'

UFOs & Aliens

Vaccines

i. Autism link

ii. COVID-19

iii. Bill Gates / Microchipped Vaccines

iv. Miscellaneous

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debunkthis·DebunkThisbyKabe

A Fresh Start [Mod Post]

Welcome, all!

This is all a bit of a change of pace, isn't it?

Since it is clear that Reddit has no intention of backtracking one iota on its API pricing stance, I will be using the site a whole lot less come the end of this month.

Lemmy seems like the best potential replacement for Reddit in a lot of ways, so those of you who are joining the exodus are welcome to join this community and continue the good work that r/DebunkThis has been doing for over a decade, just on a platform that hasn't sold its soul to venture capital.

Let us know in the comments if you have any thoughts, concerns, or ideas for helping our community flourish.

~Kabe (A.K.A u/hucifer)

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debunkthis·DebunkThisbyekZepp

Debunked This: Filip Zieba - TikTok Conspiracy Theorist | Pt. 1

Howdy friends. In this video we begin our deep dive into the prolific misinformation TikTok account run by Filip Zieba. Filip posts content discussing the worst takes on just about every pseudoscientific topic you can imagine. From pyramids to antarctic civilizations to hollow earth to lost advanced ice age civilizations. Parroting most of his work from more notorious psuedohistorians like Graham Hancock, Filip doesn't have too many new theories, but laces all of them with a layer of personality that is rarely seen from other creators. In this video we begin our dive into his channel by tackling his claims about antarctic civilizations, hyper diffusion, the Bosnian pyramids and much much more. So sit back, relax and get ready for some good old fashioned "googledybunking."

CITATIONS AND REFERENCES:

  1. https://anthropology.msu.edu/anp364-fs19/2019/11/08/post-4-hyperdiffusionism-and-the-pyramidiots/
  2. https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2017/11/fuente-magna-bowl-not-cuneiform-not-sumerian/?utm_source=www.google.com&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Google&referrer-analytics=1#google_vignette
  3. https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2016/09/ask-near-eastern-professional
  4. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/why-is-celtic-pronounced-two-ways-keltic-or-seltic
  5. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5772775/
  6. https://slate.com/technology/2014/12/the-last-time-the-arctic-was-ice-free-in-summer-modern-humans-didn-t-exist.html
  7. https://www.bbcearth.com/news/when-dinosaurs-roamed-antarctica#
  8. https://earth.org/antarcticas-floral-awakening-how-climate-change-is-transforming-the-continents-ecosystem/
  9. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2148-5
  10. https://eos.org/science-updates/an-unbroken-record-of-climate-during-the-age-of-dinosaurs
  11. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide
  12. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/05/09/diary-disputes-byrds-polar-claim/cee54121-58bb-4689-909a-205f21cc3e1e/
  13. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/antarctica-pyramid-not-quite-geologists-say/
  14. https://archeothoughts.wordpress.com/2023/11/08/there-is-no-new-evidence-that-gunung-padang-is-a-24000-year-old-pyramid/
  15. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mystery-of-bosnias-ancient-pyramids-148990462/
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debunkthis·DebunkThisbyKabe

Debunk This: Boomers better at identifying online misinformation than Gen Zers and millennials

This headline seems dubious on the face of it.

Did the study results actually show this? If so, could simply spending more time online account for doing worse on this test?

Also, just for fun, you can take the test here. I got two wrong and I have no idea which ones they were 😅

https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-millennials-worse-identifying-fake-news-than-boomers-2023-6Open linkView original on lemmy.world
debunkthis·DebunkThisbyaleph

Debunk This: The Scientific Evidence for Gender Transition Therapies is Weak

Hi, everyone. The author here claims a couple of things I'd like people to check out:

  1. That European countries are generally reluctant to endorse gender reassignment treatments due to insufficient evidence

  2. That there are no large scale studies / reviews that find good evidence in favor of gender reassignment treatments

Thanks in advance!

https://unherd.com/2023/04/the-media-is-spreading-bad-trans-science/?Open linkView original on lemm.ee
debunkthis·DebunkThisbyKabe

DebunkThis: CDC Director Knew Vaccines Didn't Stop COVID-19 and Mislead the Public

This piece from The Daily Skeptic claims that the CDC director knowingly lied to the public because she knew that the COVID vaccines did not stop the virus even though she promoted mass vaccination.

What do we make of this one?

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/06/22/cdcs-walenksy-knew-vaccines-didnt-stop-infections-in-january-2021-but-still-told-americans-vaccinated-people-do-not-carry-the-virus-email-reveals/Open linkView original on lemmy.world