How to check an article for reliability:

Additional red flags: Lots of annoying popups, sensational headlines!

Mediabiasfactcheck.com

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

Unreliable Articles:

You can find tons of examples on this website: https://www.nursingtimes.net/news/behind-the-headlines-archive

and on this website: https://www.nhs.uk/news/

Unreliablie articles examples:

• Article claiming that Jasmine is as calming as valium
  • Secondary source fact-checking/debunking Jasmine article
  • Actual science article: Sergeeva OA, Kletke O, Kragler A, et al. Fragrant dioxane derivatives identify ί1 subunit-containing GABAA receptors.The Journal of Biological Chemistry 2010; May 28
• Article claiming Diets laden with butter, cream and CHEESE 'can help combat surge in Type 2 diabetes' 
  
  • Secondary source fact-checking/debunking Diets article
  • Actual Science article: Veum VL, Laupsa-Borge J, Eng Ø, et al. Visceral adiposity and metabolic syndrome after very high–fat and low-fat isocaloric diets: a randomized controlled trialThe American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Published online November 30 2016
• Article: claiming teens with acne will live longer 
  • Actual science article referenced in article.
  • Secondary source fact-checking/debunking acne=live longer claim
• Article claiming going on holiday can help fight infection
  • Link to actual science report referenced in article: Rattazzi L, Piras G, Brod S, et al. Impact of Enriched Environment on Murine T Cell Differentiation and Gene Expression ProfileFrontiers in Immunology. Published online September 30 2016
  • Secondary source fact-checking/debunking holdiay claim

Reliable Articles examples:

Baby Boomers Should Stay in Work to Keep Healthy

• Balanced article from BBC
• Balanced article from Daily Telegraph
• Actual report these articles reference
• Secondary Source evaluating articles and report

MMR Vaccine does NOT cause autism

• Balanced article
• Balanced article
• Actual science report these articles reference
• SEcondary source evaluating articles and science report

Teenage Cannabis use linked to depression in later life

• Balanced article
• Balanced article
• actual science report these articles reference
• Secondary source evaluating articles and science report

Fun Video to Use

This video is short and sweet and touches on the issues of fake "science" claims circulatng the interwebs.

Another fun video

Heres another hilarious video w. Bill Nye that is a fun way to spark discussion about the massive spread of misinformation and misunderstandings related to science that proliferate across the internet. Please note this video does include a few curse words (sh**, and da**).

Examples of memes pretending to use science or statistics to spread misinformation

Misleading claim about race on race crime statistics:

• fact checked by: politifact
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False claim about vaccines leading to heroine abuse

• fact checked by snopes
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 Misinformation claiming vaccines cause autism

• fact checked by politifact
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False claim about Sniffing Rosemary

• Factchecked by snopes
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Unproven claim about eye color and alchohol tolerance

• fact checked by snopes
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False claim that The test of a 5G cellular network is the cause of unexplained bird deaths occurring in a park in The Hague, Netherlands.

• fact checked by snopes
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Example of a TRUE science meme

Claim that bananas have all these ingredients

factchecked by snopes

Other links to explore in future

https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/01/12/nutella-cancer-story-gives-fake-news-bad-name-10723

https://undark.org/article/year-misleading-science-claims/

https://gizmodo.com/the-worst-reported-science-stories-of-2017-1821271490

https://www.pancan.org/news/how-to-spot-fake-science-news/