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No, there is no “Serbian Gospel from the fifth century” in the National Museum of Ireland

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 09/01/2023 Web portal Balkan press recently published an article entitled “In Ireland, there is a ‘Serbian Gospel’ written at the end of the 5th century – in Serbian!”, with the claim that these “four Gospels” are kept in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. We decided to […]

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Translating “The Washington Post” with Osmanagic-translate

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 05/01/2023 Post exposed the cult – New video by Dr. Semir Osmanagic (VIDEO)”. In the accompanying video, Bosnian entrepreneur and pseudo-archaeologist Osmanagic “translates” the text of professor Marty Makary, in which he proves with scientific arguments that the immunity of the unvaccinated, after a mild infection with Covid, […]

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“Like parents, like children”: misinterpretations of the inheritance of traits

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 16/01/2023 The internet web portal N1 published a text entitled Traits that children exclusively inherit from their fathers, in which several incorrect or exaggerated claims are made about the genetic inheritance of traits. The text was shared from Index.hr which translated it from the website “Family education”. On […]

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No, the vibrator was not invented to treat female hysteria

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 13/12/2022 In previous years, more than 20 media reported that the vibrator was created to treat hysterical women because orgasm – as stated – was then the “only cure” for hysteria. According to this theory, hysteria in women has been treated by masturbation since ancient times, but later […]

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At least five European teams did not have a psychologist at the World Cup

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 11/12/2022 At the beginning of December, RTS published an interview on its web portal with psychologist Sasa Sredanovic discussing her work, football, but also the fact that – according to the interviewee – “Serbia is the only European team without a psychologist at the World Cup”. Tragac contacted […]

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The lifetime of carbon dioxide & the lifetime of pseudoscience

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 27/11/2022 At the beginning of this week, in the show “Aktuelnosti” on television with the national frequency Happy, the established topics were discussed – the war in Ukraine, geopolitics, the position of Serbia in the world… However, in addition to the many reports that concerned the war and […]

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Emperor Dusan and “tres vulves matres”: in search of the oldest recorded swear word

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 13/11/2022 One reader contacted us with a request to check the claim whether the curse word “tres vulves matres” (three mother’s c***s) is the “oldest swear word in Serbs” and whether Emperor Dusan uttered it. Over the years, various websites from our speaking area have conveyed the story […]

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No, the month of your birth does not reveal what you will suffer from during your life

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 14/11/2022 Children born these days will have an increased risk of respiratory infections, and the same applies to all those who celebrate their birthdays in November – we could draw such a conclusion from the text published by Alo. For more than a year, domestic media have been […]

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No, twelve-year-olds in the Netherlands cannot request euthanasia without parental consent

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 10/11/2022 The 47th educational symposium of the Clinic for Psychiatry of the Clinical Center of Serbia was held in Belgrade at the end of October, and one of the participants was the president of the I Live for Serbia movement, Dr. Jovana Stojkovic, a specialist in psychiatry known […]

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No, Pope John Paul II did not declare Alojzije Stepinac a saint 

Original article (in Serbian) was published on 07/10/2022 On October 3, B92 published a very popular text, with more than 290 comments, titled “For Serbs, a criminal and a monster, for Croats a saint: Alojzije Stepinac, an Ustasha icon and a man without a heart”. The following day, this text was also shared by Beograd […]