11/14/2023 0 Comments Rice video 6.1.4![]() ![]() Other claims like “children grow twice as fast in spring as they do in autumn” is partially true, as Chodhari explained “children grow a little bit faster in the spring than during other times of the year. Statements such as "80% of ear infections clear up within a week" without antibiotics is true. A baby communicates with a mother’s body via saliva that is sucked back into the nipple.ĭr Rahul Chodhari of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health confirmed to me that all of these statements are false.There are eight different types of twins.Children stop growing every time they get a cold. ![]() Doctors often don’t know how much medicines cost.The claims below came from both Blossom and Baby First channels. Some of which also make false or misleading claims. First Media claims it reaches 50 million US households via its TV shows that are hosted on platforms such as Amazon, Hulu and Roku.īaby First publishes similar short ‘things you didn’t know’ clips on Facebook. The company that owns Blossom, First Media, also owns a host of other similarly popular channels including “Baby First”, which has 60 thousand followers on Facebook. The company that published the video, Blossom, has over 51 million followers. ![]() The video has 93 million views (as of writing) on Facebook and 7.2 million views on Instagram, which doesn’t include the other pages that have reposted it (one page I found had half a million views for a freebooted version of the same video). It also intimated that the experiments shown in the video were genuine experiments, and not faked for the video, which seems extremely unlikely. Facebook also emailed over a lengthy, general, statement about its commitment to tackling misinformation on its platform.įirst Media also claimed that the video was created for “informational and entertainment” purposes and that it did indeed do these experiments, which were “based on research from reputable global sources”. Separately, a Facebook representative told me on a phone call that the video is being investigated. The statement continued: “many of the examples presented in the video are, indeed, disturbing” and that “this video offers information from a variety of reputable and globally-recognized sources already available to the average consumer.”ĭespite this, a First Media spokesperson claimed that it is appealing a “ranking” with Facebook’s fact checking organisation Poynter. In an emailed statement to me, First Media, the company behind the video and the page that publishes it said “Blossom’s research and production teams work very hard to ensure high quality and visually entertaining content”. The Food Standards Agency in the UK confirmed to me that it has not seen any evidence to support many of the claims made in the video. There are several other claims in the video which misleadingly suggest individual, outlier food scandals are normal practice - or are entirely false, which Snopes explains in its comprehensive debunking of the viral clip. It also doesn’t look like viscous PVC plastic glue you’d use for an arts and crafts project - as the video suggests. But it’s used regularly in popular food meat products like chicken nuggets, not fresh, whole meat cuts as the video depicts. Meat glue typically refers to a type of enzyme called Transglutaminase, which is indeed used to bind meat together. Similarly the “glue” used to bind meat straps does exist, but not as its presented in the video. ![]()
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