Science claims here span climate records, renewables, microplastics, and biosensor research—plus oddities like “Kapachim” and obscure invertebrate receptors.
240 Science claim verifications avg. score 5.2/10 99 rated true or mostly true 140 rated false or misleading
“The Agulhas Current flows southward along South Africa’s east coast and warms the air above it, making the KwaZulu-Natal coast warmer than other places at the same latitude.”
The underlying oceanography is well supported, but the claim goes further than the evidence shown. Reliable sources confirm that the Agulhas Current flows southward along South Africa’s east coast and transfers heat and moisture to the air above it. They do not directly establish the broader comparison that KwaZulu-Natal is warmer than other places at the same latitude because of this current alone.
“Solar and wind power are the cheapest sources of new electricity generation in most major markets.”
Current evidence broadly supports the statement for utility-scale solar PV and onshore wind. Major recent analyses from the IEA, EIA, BloombergNEF, Wood Mackenzie, and Lazard generally find them to be the cheapest new-build options in many large markets. The key limitation is that this is mostly an LCOE comparison; full system costs and some regional gas markets can change the ranking.
“Kapachim is a defined industrial or scientific process with a standard set of steps documented in technical sources.”
The evidence does not support “Kapachim” as a defined industrial or scientific process with standard documented steps. Authoritative patent, standards, chemistry, engineering, and scholarly sources do not recognize any such named process. The references that do mention KAPACHIM treat it as a company or facility, and the cited process steps are generic chemical-production steps, not a documented protocol called “Kapachim.”
“In lophotrochozoan invertebrates, including annelids and mollusks, chemosensory ionotropic receptors detect environmental chemical signals and mediate sensory perception, especially aquatic olfaction and gustation.”
Current evidence supports a chemosensory role for ionotropic receptors in annelids and mollusks, but not as conclusively as the claim suggests. Peer-reviewed studies show conserved IR genes and expression in olfactory or gustatory organs of lophotrochozoans such as Aplysia, Capitella, and Sepia. The main limitation is that direct receptor-level and behavioral proof in these taxa is still limited compared with arthropods.
“About 35% of microplastics in the ocean originate from synthetic textiles.”
The 35% figure is real, but it is commonly tied to a narrower statistic: the share of primary microplastics released to the ocean from washing synthetic textiles. That does not justify saying 35% of all microplastics in the ocean originate from textiles. Credible sources also report wider ranges and lower estimates, so the unqualified claim overstates both scope and certainty.
“Leguminous plants enrich soil by fixing atmospheric nitrogen into forms that are available for plant uptake.”
The core biological mechanism is well established: many legumes, through rhizobial symbiosis, convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable forms and can raise soil nitrogen availability. However, the effect is not automatic or equal in all legumes and environments, and other plants often benefit most after legume residues break down.
“The ABC conjecture has been proven as of March 18, 2026.”
The ABC conjecture has not been proven in any broadly accepted sense as of March 18, 2026. While Mochizuki's proof was published by RIMS in Kyoto, leading mathematicians including Peter Scholze and Jakob Stix identified a serious, unfixable gap that remains unresolved. The RIMS publication carries a conflict of interest, and Joshi's subsequent defense is explicitly conditional on acceptance of enhancements the community has not endorsed. As of early 2026, the conjecture remains "a theorem in Kyoto, a conjecture everywhere else."
“Blushing is an evolutionarily developed mechanism in humans that functions to display emotions and thereby facilitates collaboration and empathy.”
Evidence broadly supports blushing as a likely evolved human social signal that reveals self-conscious emotions and can help repair social relations. But the literature is more specific than the claim suggests: blushing is most strongly linked to appeasement after embarrassment or transgression, not a universal mechanism for collaboration and empathy. Some studies also report mixed or context-dependent effects.
“LETM1 is a proton-coupled mitochondrial calcium transport pathway that complements the mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) and the mitochondrial sodium/calcium exchanger (NCLX) in controlling mitochondrial Ca2+ dynamics.”
Current evidence supports LETM1 as a proton-coupled contributor to mitochondrial Ca2+ handling alongside MCU and NCLX. Direct reconstitution and mechanistic studies support Ca2+/H+ antiport activity, but the field still debates whether that is LETM1’s main in-cell function or whether some Ca2+ effects are indirect through K+/H+ exchange and NCLX regulation.
“In human communication, 93% of meaning is conveyed through nonverbal cues such as body language and tone of voice rather than through the words themselves.”
The 93% figure is not a valid rule for human communication generally. It comes from limited studies about conveying feelings and attitudes when verbal and nonverbal signals conflict, not from all speech or all meaning. Nonverbal cues matter greatly in many contexts, but the claim turns a narrow finding into a universal percentage that the evidence does not support.
“A typical cloud has a volume of about 1 cubic kilometer.”
The 1 km³ figure is a common teaching approximation, but it is not a sound general statement about a “typical cloud.” It refers mainly to an idealized fair-weather cumulus cloud, not clouds overall, and newer NASA reporting says average cumulus volumes are closer to 0.2–0.8 km³, with 1 km³ being somewhat large rather than typical. Without that context, the claim overgeneralizes.
“March 2026 was the warmest March on record in the United States.”
NOAA data and multiple independent news sources confirm that March 2026 shattered temperature records, with an anomaly of 9.4°F above the 20th-century average — the largest for any month in over 130 years of records. The record applies specifically to the contiguous United States (Lower 48), which is NOAA's standard framework for national climate reporting. While the claim's phrasing of "the United States" aligns with how this record is conventionally described, it technically omits the distinction that Alaska and Hawaii are not included in the dataset.
“The majority of online misinformation is spread by human users rather than automated bots.”
The weight of available research supports the claim that human users remain the primary drivers of online misinformation spread, though the picture is more nuanced than the claim suggests. The most rigorous large-scale studies show that false news diffusion patterns persist even after removing bot accounts, and human behavioral mechanisms — habitual sharing, platform incentives, superspreaders — remain dominant factors. However, bots punch well above their weight in specific contexts, and the rapid rise of AI-generated content since 2023 is narrowing the gap in ways not yet fully measured.
“Post-purchase dissonance significantly mediates the relationship between fear of missing out (FoMO) and order cancellation intention, with impulsive buying acting as a catalyst that transforms FoMO into post-purchase cognitive dissonance.”
The claimed mediation chain from FoMO through post-purchase dissonance to order cancellation intention is not supported as a tested model by any cited peer-reviewed study. While academic research does link FoMO to impulsive buying and impulsive buying to post-purchase cognitive dissonance, no source in the evidence base measures or tests "order cancellation intention" as an outcome. The final link relies on a practitioner blog equating returns with cancellation—a different construct. The claim presents a plausible but unverified synthesis as an established finding.
“Electrochemical enzyme-based biosensors can detect metabolites such as glucose and lactate associated with tumor metabolism.”
Published studies support that electrochemical enzyme-based biosensors can detect tumor-related metabolites such as glucose and lactate. Evidence includes cancer-cell and tumor-sample experiments using glucose- and lactate-oxidase sensors. The main caveat is that many demonstrations are proof-of-concept or ex vivo, so capability is established more clearly than routine clinical use.
“Incorporating nanomaterials into electrochemical enzyme-based biosensors significantly improves electron transfer efficiency and analytical performance.”
The literature strongly supports the claimed effect. Across multiple peer-reviewed reviews, nanomaterials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles, and metal oxides are consistently reported to enhance electron transfer and improve biosensor performance metrics including sensitivity and detection limits. The main caveat is that the size and reliability of the benefit depend on the specific material, enzyme, and application.
“The world produces 355 million tonnes of plastic waste annually.”
Available evidence supports this as a reasonable approximation, not as an exact timeless statistic. The strongest source, OECD’s Global Plastics Outlook, estimates 353 million tonnes of plastic waste in 2019, and several credible summaries place the total around 350–360 million tonnes. The claim would be stronger if it specified the year and treated 355 million tonnes as rounded.
“A child's adult height is primarily inherited from the father rather than the mother.”
Height is not mainly inherited from the father. The best available evidence shows adult height is a highly polygenic trait shaped by many genes inherited from both parents, plus environmental factors such as nutrition and health. Studies cited for a paternal effect are either preliminary, locus-specific, or misinterpreted, and some actually show strong maternal associations rather than paternal dominance.
“As of May 8, 2026, peer-reviewed scientific evidence proves the existence of the Abrahamic God as understood in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.”
No peer-reviewed scientific evidence, as of May 8, 2026, establishes or proves the existence of the Abrahamic God. The strongest sources say science has not produced such proof and is not methodologically equipped to verify a specific supernatural deity in the way the claim asserts. Materials arguing for God in the source list are mainly philosophical, theological, or apologetic rather than empirical scientific demonstrations.
“The sum of 1 and 1 is equal to 3.”
The claim that "the sum of 1 and 1 is equal to 3" is unequivocally false. Every credible mathematical source confirms that 1+1=2, a foundational truth proven rigorously from the Peano axioms and formal logic. Purported "proofs" of 1+1=3 rely on hidden errors like division by zero and are presented as tricks, not valid mathematics. The cultural metaphor of "1+1=3" (e.g., a couple having a child) is a figure of speech, not an arithmetic identity.