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More or Less: Behind the Stats Episodes

  1. Do big football clubs win more penalties?

    Do Manchester United and other leading clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona benefit in...

  2. Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?

    We examine a social media post that claims to outline rates of divorce across the world.

  3. Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?

    Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?

  4. Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?

    We investigate a refugee claim that is often being taken out of context.

  5. Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

    We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee

  6. Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?

    We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation

  7. Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?

    We investigate if the US president鈥檚 crypto is really worth tens of billions of dollars.

  8. Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

    We look at the World Health Organisation鈥檚 latest estimates of the pandemic鈥檚 death toll

  9. Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

    How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.

  10. 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

  11. Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

    Fact checking the fascist regime.

  12. Did lockdowns save any lives?

    Did lockdowns actually save any lives?

  13. Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?

    We fact check a claim made by Donald Trump about the world famous canal

  14. 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

  15. Detecting Bad Science with Data

    Uncovering fraud, malpractice and incompetence in science

  16. Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

    Health risks for Presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims

  17. 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?

  18. Degrees of Debt

    We look at the numbers behind the increase in the cap on undergraduate tuition fees in...

  19. Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths

    The numbers behind Ukraine鈥檚 rare earth worth and the UK鈥檚 defence spending ambitions

  20. Deciding when to suspend a vaccine

    Weighing up the risk of unproven side effects with stopping Covid 19.

  21. Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

    We debunk spurious rumours that Liverpool FC use asthma medication to enhance performance

  22. Debt, students, shark and chips

    What is the government鈥檚 rule on debt? Do 90% of chip shops sell shark and chips?

  23. Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

    Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants

  24. Deaths, taxes and missing cats

    We investigate claims about gun crime, the UK tax burden, and the number of missing cats

  25. Deaths at 成人快手, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

    Where are people catching Covid-19?

  26. Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect

    Where are people catching Covid-19?

  27. Death, Tax and Dishwashers

    Why is estimating the number of unvaccinated people so tricky? And how deadly is 2021?

  28. Death Penalty abolition

    The story behind the countries that have not executed anyone for 10 years

  29. Day light saving time and heart attacks

    Does the sudden loss of an hour of sleep raise the risk of having a heart attack?

  30. Data, extreme weather and climate change

    The role data plays in climate attribution - and why we don鈥檛 always have it

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