Fact Check This Podcast

Joined on this special live stream by a bunch of friends, taking some time to talk sports, COVID, Christmas movies, television shows, and whatever else popped up over the course of 3 hours. Enjoy, and Merry Christmas!

While masks might not do much to mitigate the spread of certain illnesses, apparently they can help prevent racism. Yes, this is every bit as crazy as it sounds. So let's look at the article, the research, and discuss the legitimate solutions to these issues.

Boston researchers: Masking children in schools can reduce effects of 'structural racism' - Must Read Alaska

Lifting Universal Masking in Schools — Covid-19 Incidence among Students and Staff | NEJM

Why do single women largely vote for Democrats? Same reason blacks typically vote for them... because they've built their brand around keeping minority groups reliant on them and believing that without government involvement they would be trampled under-foot by those racist, sexist, homophobic Republicans! Today I look at an article from the ever non-partisan Salon.

Why did single women vote for Democrats? Republicans have an asinine theory | Salon.com

Looking at a couple articles from The Washington Examiner that ask the question about progressives seemingly misplaced support for Democrats.

Why do progressives support Democrats? Part one (washingtonexaminer.com)

Why do progressives support Democrats? Part two (washingtonexaminer.com)

Racism is so rampant across America that we need to mass-manufacture fake hate crimes to prove it. In today's article Dennis Prager (of Prager U) lists a whole string of instances proving that point while the fact checkers over at PolitiFact provide nothing to prove him wrong.

PolitiFact Is to Fact What Pravda Was to Truth (townhall.com)

Checking in on a fact check of the IRS looking at every transaction of $600

Republicans Mischaracterize Proposed Financial Reporting Requirement - FactCheck.org

Or at least that's what the folks over at Time tell us. And to be honest, they make a compelling case (fortification not withstanding). Check it out and see what you think of their logic here.

The 2024 Presidential Election? Democrats Have Already Won | Time

The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election | Time

There's way too much to talk about with this topic, and that is absolutely terrifying. We'll go through the lack of action Twitter has taken over the years, and hopefully some solutions going forward for the problem, plus talk about the absolute hypocrisy that is the Left when discussing this topic.

When Twitter refused to take down child porn despite victim's requests (opindia.com)

Twitter declined to remove sex video exploiting minors, according to lawsuit supported by powerful watchdog groups | News | sfexaminer.com

How to Fix America's Child-Pornography Crisis - The Atlantic

Baltimore Man Admits Using Female Aliases on Social Media and Messaging Applications to Entice Boys to Send Him Sexually Explicit Images and Videos | USAO-MD | Department of Justice

Commentary: Alleged child sex abuser operated for four years on Twitter. He had 290,000 followers. - TheBlaze

Pfizer and Moderna are going to conduct research on myocarditis following vaccinations. This is going to take a few years, but they feel confident there won't be anything unexpected in the results. Of course not... it's so rare and infrequent after all. I mean, they keep telling us how rare and infrequent it is!

Myocarditis after Covid vaccine: Research on long-term effects underway (nbcnews.com)

Update on myocarditis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination (cdc.gov)

It turns out there is a correlation between attractiveness and successfulness, but how that is applied varies between genders. Let's take a look at an article from PsyPost talking about some research on that topic.

Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19 (psypost.org)