More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
The numbers behind water use and denim production
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Does half the UK get more in benefits than they pay in tax?
UK benefits, Zack Polanski’s billionaire claim and Gen Z job interviews
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Does endurance sport harm your heart?
We investigate the connection between high levels of exercise and arrhythmia
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Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?
Infection vs injection: Could prior infection provide 27 times more protection?
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Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?
A major 30-year study claims to show breastfed babies become more intelligent, higher...
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Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?
We investigate how much water and power are used by artificial intelligence
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Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?
We investigate how much water and power are used by artificial intelligence.
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Does a language die every two weeks?
Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens.
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Do women feel the cold more than men?
We investigate if air conditioning is set too cold for women.
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Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
We investigate the claim that each of us sees thousands of adverts every single day
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Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
We delve into the stats on the scale of the fashion industry
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Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?
We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis
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Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?
Plus: MP capital gains claims and grizzly bear berry habits
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Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
How problems with opt-in polling can lead to controversial headlines
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Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
The cultural importance of gold is well known – but how much do Indians actually own?
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Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
We look into a claim that 50% of new books in the US sell just a handful of copies.
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Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
We investigate the claim that fungal infections are a much bigger killer than malaria.
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Do free school meals work?
All pupils at infant schools in England are to get free school lunches from next but I...
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Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?
We investigate a huge estimate for how much governments pay to support coal, gas and oil
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Do big football clubs win more penalties?
Do Manchester United and other leading clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona benefit in...
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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.
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Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?
Counting religions across the globe – is the world getting more religious or less?
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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.
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Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee
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Do 11,000 sharks die every hour?
Investigating if 100 million sharks are killed by fishing nets every year.
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Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?
We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operation
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Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?
We investigate if the US president’s crypto is really worth tens of billions of dollars.
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Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?
We look at the World Health Organisation’s latest estimates of the pandemic’s death toll
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Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?
How tea became an accidental lifesaver in 18th Century England.
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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