Health and Medicine Fact Checking Resources
JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS
The New England Journal of Medicine
This site lists journals that may be predatory: Bell’s List
For open access journals, you can check whether it’s listed on the DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS, which lists those of high quality
SCIENTIFIC ACADEMIES and UNIVERSITIES
National Academy of Medicine, US
+ Most universities and research institutes around the world have specific pages on their websites dedicated to debunling health myths
Office for Science and Society - Separating Sense from Nonsense (McGill University)
Mythbusters (Harvard)
The Science media centre (UK) provides up to date comments by scientists on latest news
HEALTH AUTHORITIES
National Health Service (NHS), UK
National Institutes of Health (NIH), US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US
COVID-19 REAL TIME DASHBOARDS
World Health Organizaton (WHO)
FACT CHECKING/MYTHS DEBUNKING RESOURCES
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Mythbusters (WHO)