Wait A Minute!The Relationship Between Make‑Up and Self‑Esteem Is More Nuanced Than It Appears It is a greater focus on appearance that led the participants to invest more -- of both time and money -- in make-up use. By Devrupa Rakshit
Coffee Makes The Heart Beat. Not.Coffee Doesn’t Actually Make the Heart ‘Race,’ New Research Shows The study analyzed coffee consumption of more than 3,86,000 people and found no increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias. By Devrupa Rakshit
Subverting PseudoscienceA Research Competition Wants to Debunk ‘Cow Science.’ Do Facts Stand a Chance Against Beliefs? “The only way to defeat bad science would be to contrast it with good science." By Devrupa Rakshit
Misinformation Is Injurious To HealthCovid19 Misinformation Is Spreading Across 87 Countries, Costing Lives: Study The study found that misinformation has resulted in 800 deaths, and close to 6,000 injuries that required hospitalization. By Devrupa Rakshit
Check Your FactsAmid Growing Concerns About Misinformation, WhatsApp Launches Fact‑Check Feature Passing on the onus of fact-checking onto users, and Google, might not be the the most foolproof way to tackle the infodemic. By Devrupa Rakshit
Risky BusinessRemdesivir Fails Its First Clinical Trial as a Possible Covid19 Treatment The WHO posted the news on its website, then later removed the post. By Devrupa Rakshit
Ayush-maan BhavaUN Concerned About the Deadly Consequences of Covid19 Myths Governments around the world have played a major role in propagating misinformation around the pandemic. By Devrupa Rakshit
Absolutely FalseDebunking the Myths About Covid19 Avoiding non-veg food will not keep the novel coronavirus at bay. By The Swaddle Team
Myth Busting15 Things Everyone Tells You About Breastfeeding That Aren’t True Small breasts won't produce less milk, and drinking cow's milk will not help you produce breast milk. By Vanshika Gupta Adukia
MythbustingCow Urine Does Not Cure Cancer Recent claims that it does are driven by ideology, not science. By Liesl Goecker
MythbustingStudy Confirms, Yet Again, Vaccines Do Not Cause Immune System ‘Overload’ Let's put this myth to bed. By The Swaddle Team