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RFK Jr. Misleads on Autism Prevalence, Causes
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. distorted scientific research to argue that there is an “epidemic” of autism that must be due to an “environmental toxin.” The main finding of the new…
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How misinformation trailed Pope Francis
Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, was an unlikely chronicler of the world’s reckoning with false information online. Francis outlined the societal harms of misinformation in 2018, tracing the origin of false news to the Garden of Eden “snake tactics” that led to the original sin. “There is no such thing as harmless…
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Trump said ‘a couple states’ have $1.98 gas. He’s wrong
Twice in recent days, President Donald Trump has touted the lows he says gas prices have reached during his presidency. “You have gasoline that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states,” Trump said April 17 while meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. He repeated that statistic in another White House event April 22.…
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FEMA still funding Helene relief for North Carolina
A widely-shared social media post lacks important context about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s recent decision about disaster relief in North Carolina. President Donald Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene, calling it ‘unwarranted,’” liberal pundit Brian Tyler Cohen said in an April 12 X post. The post — which…