Tetris and Trauma On October 11 2021, screenshots of a Twitter thread about the classic video puzzle game Tetris purportedly reducing trauma after distressing events spread all over platforms like Facebook and Imgur: Tetris may help with trauma Originally, Twitter account @jelenawoehr tweeted the commentary on October 7 2021: It has come to my attention that not everyone knows […]
No, a Study Didn’t Find That ‘the Most Highly-Educated Americans Are Also the Most Vaccine-Hesitant’ A mischaracterization of a pre-print study about "vaccine hesitancy" further advanced anti-vaxxer falsehoods.
‘OK, Who Had Nuclear Cannibal Ants for August?’ The ongoing "2020 bingo" meme involved the escape of "nuclear cannibal ants ... for August," but the story making the rounds was from a year before.
Can Consuming Too Much Coffee Under Stress Cause Schizophrenia Symptoms? A "weird facts" page on Facebook claimed that excess caffeine could have a deleterious effect by either mimicking or triggering the effects of schizophrenia.
Do Four in Ten Cancer Patients Really Lose Their Life Savings? In a pro-Medicare for All tweet, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said that around 40 percent of cancer patients lose their life savings due solely to the costs of their treatment.
