Lost $47 signing up for some grant matching service. Turns out it was just a data harvesting scam run out of a strip mall in Phoenix. Anyone else get burned by those targeted ads?
Spent a Sunday afternoon with a article about vaccine side effects that went viral. Mainstream fact checkers like Reuters and AP said it was mostly false. Independent blogs and science writers found actual primary sources that backed up parts of the claim. The difference was wild. Mainstream outlets skimmed through a government summary. Independent folks pulled the actual clinical trial documents. Now I check both sides before sharing anything. Has anyone else noticed this gap between professional fact checkers and independent researchers?