Monthly Archive: August 2021
Bryan W. White
August 27, 2021
The go-to paper on avian mortality from power plant operation has little to back its conclusions about plants using fossil fuels, and fact checkers struggle to describe it correctly. A funny thing happened when media fact checker PolitiFact looked into the question of birds killed by fossil fuel-burning power plants. PolitiFact either neglected to check the facts or neglected to…
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Bryan W. White
August 27, 2021
On Aug. 23, 2021 we sent an email to the president of Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship, David Jenkins. PolitiFact quoted Jenkins it its flawed fact check on avian deaths from electrical power plants.
Bryan W. White
August 24, 2021
Zebra Fact Check discovered a significant error with information from a cited source in an Aug. 17, 2021 fact check of Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas). We sent a correction request via email on Aug. 20, 2021. We sent our email while preparing to include a table from the problem source, so we sent a second email to add that image….
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