More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation
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Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?
We investigate if the US president’s crypto is really worth tens of billions of dollars.
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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
We look at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
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Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?
We investigate if 10 percent of the Greek population died during the second world war
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Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?
Fact checking the fascist regime.
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Did lockdowns save any lives?
Did lockdowns actually save any lives?
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Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?
Investigating a claim that 100 made-up claims were found in AI papers
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Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
We fact check a claim made by Donald Trump about the world famous canal
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Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?
We investigate a viral graph that suggests turnout was drastically lower than in 2020
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Detecting Bad Science with Data
Uncovering fraud, malpractice and incompetence in science
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Dementia, inflation and shark deaths
Health risks for Presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims
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Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim
Should we worry about the Delta variant? Plus how much do blue tits eat?
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Degrees of Debt
We look at the numbers behind the increase in the cap on undergraduate tuition fees in...
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Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths
The numbers behind Ukraine’s rare earth worth and the UK’s defence spending ambitions
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Deciding when to suspend a vaccine
Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid 19.
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Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory
We debunk spurious rumours that Liverpool FC use asthma medication to enhance performance
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Debt, students, shark and chips
What is the government’s rule on debt? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips?
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Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants
Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants
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Deaths, taxes and missing cats
We investigate claims about gun crime, the UK tax burden, and the number of missing cats
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Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect
Where are people catching Covid-19?
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Death, Tax and Dishwashers
Why is estimating the number of unvaccinated people so tricky? And how deadly is 2021?
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Death Penalty abolition
The story behind the countries that have not executed anyone for 10 years
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Day light saving time and heart attacks
Does the sudden loss of an hour of sleep raise the risk of having a heart attack?
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Data, extreme weather and climate change
The role data plays in climate attribution - and why we don’t always have it
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Data in the time of cholera
A journey back to the birth of epidemiology
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Data for India
Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?
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Cybermetrics and Groundhog Day
Can you measure your popularity – or that of anyone or anything – by the number of...
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Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs
Has Brexit caused a fall in lorry drivers? Plus policing Extinction Rebellion