“The federal government spent over $500k trying to force fish to exercise on treadmills, an additional $150k to see if gingerbread houses are earthquake proof.”
What PolitiFact found
Washington spent about $3,400, not on testing gingerbread houses, but on a workshop about earthquake resistant design. The fish experiment was about the emergence of life on land millions of years ago.
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In short
Josh Mandel (Ohio politician) made this claim around 21 May 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 May 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Josh Mandel has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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