Health
Medical claims, wellness fads, and what the evidence actually supports.
Childhood trauma can cause children to feel anxious, disconnected, and distrustful, and these effects can complicate their adjustment to new homes.
HARDLY BS
Training in trauma-informed care can help foster parents recognize and address foster children's emotional struggles.
HARDLY BS
Foster children often experience trauma that affects their emotional and psychological health, including grief and fear.
NOT BS
Alcohol consumption causes cancer in humans.
NOT BS
The diagnostic literature on autism describes autistic people who are frequently devastated by accidentally breaking social rules they were trying hard to follow.
MOSTLY BS
As of May 5, 2026, psychological interventions (including cognitive behavioral therapy, stress-management training, or mindfulness-based programs) improve longevity-related biomarkers (including blood pressure, inflammatory markers, or glycemic control) in adults compared with no intervention or usual care.
SOME BS
Community-based interventions are effective in promoting mental health outcomes.
HARDLY BS
As of May 5, 2026, community-based health interventions increase life expectancy in the general adult population.
MOSTLY BS
Lifters focused on hypertrophy benefit more from higher training volumes than from lower training volumes.
HARDLY BS
Most recreational resistance-training participants underestimate the total training volume they can tolerate and adapt to.
TOTAL BS
As of May 4, 2026, resistance training performed at longer muscle lengths with greater training volume is more likely to produce greater skeletal muscle hypertrophy than resistance training performed at shorter muscle lengths and/or with lower training volume.
HARDLY BS
Lat prayers are unlikely to produce more lat hypertrophy than lat pulldowns.
HARDLY BS
Approximately 40% of maternal deaths were prevented as a result of family planning efforts.
SOME BS
Nearly all modern commercially available foods can be consumed in a healthy way as part of a normocaloric, well-balanced diet.
SOME BS
Lat pulldowns are superior to lat prayers for lat hypertrophy.
MOSTLY BS
There is insufficient scientific evidence to conclude that lat prayers produce less lat muscle hypertrophy than lat pulldowns.
NOT BS
Lat prayers are more effective than lat pulldowns for latissimus dorsi hypertrophy when performed with correct form.
TOTAL BS
Using ChatGPT causes a person's brain to deteriorate.
TOTAL BS
In men, testosterone secretion is highest in the morning, making male aggression highest in the morning.
MOSTLY BSNo checks match that verdict.