Claim of 50,000 heat-related deaths not based on facts
Once again, the media were reporting on heat-related deaths. As many as 50,000 people were said to have succumbed to the heat in European cities this summer. The media reported the news uncritically. However, a fact-check by Marcel Crok reveals that the researchers did not use any mortality figures at all in this study and that assumptions were piled upon assumptions.