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Claim: Visuals of Khalistan terrorists chopping off hand of a man (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-24)
Evidence (2024-05-16): The men continue swinging their machetes at each other before the one on the ground manages to make it back up onto his knees — and barbarically chops off his opponent’s hand at the wrist. The graphic footage shows the man’s hand flying off and landing on the asphalt. [...] The man whose hand was hacked off was taken to a local hospital, though it was not immediately clear if doctors could reattach his limb.
Claim: Visuals of Khalistan terrorists chopping off hand of a man (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-24)
Evidence (2024-10-08): HORRIFIC images of a suspected thief being bandaged up after having his hand and foot cut off have been released by Islamic State (ISIS). [...] ISIS thugs chop off thief’s HAND with a CLEAVER, pictures show [...] These latest images come just a day after the terror group shared pictures of four married men accused of adultery being stoned to death, and just over a week after another thief had his hand cut off with a meat cleaver.
Claim: Visuals of Khalistan terrorists chopping off hand of a man (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-24)
Evidence (2024-07-29): The Islamic State’s media arm posted a series of photos Saturday in a jihadi forum that purportedly show militants preparing to cut off the hands of an accused thief.
Claim: Visuals of Khalistan terrorists chopping off hand of a man (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-24)
Evidence (2023-07-29): A foreign-based terror module: Khalistan Liberation Force was planning to disrupt peace in Punjab through targeted killings.#SSOC, SAS Nagar busted the module successfully@PunjabPoliceInd is committed to maintain peace & harmony in Punjab as per directions of CM @BhagwantMann pic.twitter.com/a9N9PxM3D8 — DGP Punjab Police (@DGPPunjabPolice) July 29, 2023
Claim: Visuals of Khalistan terrorists chopping off hand of a man (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-24)
Evidence (2023-10-28): The footage showed Hamas members engaged in the type of butchery depicted in ISIS videos. In one scene, a Hamas member asks another fighter to film him as he fires rounds into the head of an Israeli civilian who appears to already be dead. In another, a group of Hamas terrorits argue over who gets to cut off the head of a Thai man who was working in Israel. One of them then struggles to chop off his head with a hoe.
Claim: Visuals of Khalistan terrorists chopping off hand of a man (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-24)
Evidence (2023-02-27): In light of recent clash between Amritsar police and followers of Pro-Khalistan leader and chief of Waris Punjab De, a video of assailants chopping off fingers of a man is being widely shared with a claim linking the video to recent Pro-Khalistan activity in Punjab. Sharing the video, the post claims that Khalistan terrorists chopped off the hand of a man. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post. [...] Fact: These visuals are from an incident where three assailants chopped off the fingers of man, as an act of revenge for a murder. The incident reportedly took place in Mohali, on 08 February 2023. Further, the police did not mention of the relation to Pro-Khalistan activities to the incident. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE. [...] To sum it up, these visuals of assailants chopping off the hand is not related to the recent pro-Khalistan activities in Punjab.
Claim: Visuals of Khalistan terrorists chopping off hand of a man (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-24)
Evidence (2001-06-01): A procession of a few hundred agitated Sikhs, led by Bhindranwale and by Fauja Singh of the Akhand Kirtani Jatha, then left the Golden Temple and set out for the Nirankari Convention. On the way, in what was perhaps the first act of gratuitous violence by the future terrorists of Khalistan, they hacked off the arm of a Hindu sweetmeats seller. On arriving at the convention, they rushed the stage on which the chief of the [...] Officers of the Army who were captured by the terrorists were subjected to the most inhuman tortures, and then brutally murdered; the terrorists strapped explosives on to the body of one of these JCOs after having skinned him alive, and then blew him up as he was thrown from the upper floor of the Akal Takht. And on June 8, 1984, they hacked to death an unarmed army doctor who had entered a basement to treat some civilian casualties.
Claim: Visuals of Khalistan terrorists chopping off hand of a man (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-02-24)
Evidence (2021-10-16): The Nihangs are an order of Sikh warriors that dates back to 1699. There are different groups among the Nihangs, each with their own leaders. This is not the first time they are in the news for violent behaviour. In an incident in Patiala last year, when movement was restricted as per Covid protocol, members of one group chopped off the hand of a policeman because he’d asked for their curfew passes. [...] Gurdas says Saravjit is the one who cut both Singh’s hand and foot. "After cutting the foot, the group chanted slogans and started dragging him [Singh] away," he remembered. The noise woke Gurjit up for the second time. Once again, he stepped out of his tent. He remembers the time was 5:38am. He saw a barely-conscious Singh being dragged towards the barricade where Singh was eventually hanged. "He was bleeding quite a lot, his hand was chopped off and leg was also partially severed," Gurjit said.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2023-01-02): The viral visuals are just a depiction of the concept of incubation of babies through artificial wombs by a Berlin based science communicator and biotechnologist, Hashem Al Ghaili. He confirmed that the technology currently does not exist. Hence the claim made in the post is FALSE.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-13): It looks like a scene from The Matrix. Rows upon rows of babies are developing in the "world’s first artificial womb facility," which can supposedly incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown children per year. [...] "I have no doubt that at some point, most people will be produced by IVF. And that this [EctoLife] would be a possibility. In science, I think you should never say never," she tells HuffPost UK. [...] The EctoLife concept video talks about offering an "elite package" where babies will be genome edited to alter their hair colour, skin tone, physical strength, height and level of intelligence.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-14): EctoLife, the "world’s first artificial womb facility" is just a concept for now, which offers a way for parents to produce customised babies. [...] It will be able to develop 30,000 babies a year in a lab in transparent "growth pods". [...] EctoLife provides an option for parents to have children without going through pregnancy or even conception, notes Interesting Engineering (IE).
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-13): In theory, they will be able to grow 30,000 babies a year in their lab, and Al-Ghaili believes the facilities would allow infertile couples to conceive a baby and become the true biological parents of their own offspring. [...] "EctoLife artificial womb is designed to alleviate human suffering and reduce the chances of C-sections. [...] Every pod is designed to replicate the exact conditions that exist inside the mother's uterus. A single building can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2024-04-25): A video shows ‘EctoLife’, the world’s first artificial womb facility. [...] A voiceover in the video introduces "EctoLife, the world’s first artificial womb facility, powered entirely by renewable energy" and says it "allows infertile couple to conceive a baby and become the true biological parents of their own offspring" [sic].
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-15): The first artificial (and currently fictional) womb facility in the world is being created by a biotechnologist in Germany, and it will let parents select the traits of their child like food from a menu. According to reports, EctoLife, which can produce 30,000 children annually, is the result of more than 50 years of innovative scientific study. EctoLife is a fictional concept by Yemeni YouTuber Hashem Al-Ghaili, a science communicator and molecular biotechnologist who says the facilities will enable infertile couples to become the real biological parents of their own children by helping them conceive a child. [...] The building has 75 extremely well-equipped labs that can each hold up to 400 growth pods or artificial wombs. Each pod is built to precisely imitate the conditions that exist inside the mother's uterus. Up to 30,000 lab-grown infants can be incubated in one building each year.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-13): The facility, which can grow 30,000 babies a year, would allow infertile couples to conceive a baby. [...] "EctoLife artificial womb is designed to alleviate human suffering and reduce the chances of C-sections." [...] Every pod is designed to replicate the exact conditions that exist inside the mother’s uterus. A single building can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-14): World’s first ‘artificial womb facility’ to grow 30,000 babies a year in birth pods; parents can design child [...] The biotechnologist behind this seemingly bizarre and crazy plan at the womb factory called ECTOLIFE - Hashem Al-Ghaili (a Berlin-based biotechnologist and science communicator) - says it would allow infertile couples to conceive a baby and become the 'true biological parents of their own offspring. [...] EctoLife allows your baby to develop in an infection-free environment. Ghaili says every pod is designed to replicate the exact conditions that exist inside the mother’s uterus. A single building can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-12): The concept of the world’s first-ever artificial womb facility has been unveiled. Called EctoLife, the facility can produce up to 30,000 babies every year. The use of the word "produce" is deliberate since, as one can see in the video below, the facility aims to give parents a wide range of tools to get a baby customized to their desires. [...] Back in 2017, researchers built a BioBag that contained all the necessary components to make an artificial womb and grew a baby lamb in it, a Forbes report said. The EctoLife concept aims to scale this up to an industrial level and apply this to humans instead. [...] A facility like EctoLife can improve the success rate of conception by using procedures like in-vitro fertilization and then transplanting the fertilized embryo directly into the artificial womb. Here, the growth and development of the fetus can be monitored 24/7, and timely interventions made to prevent the loss of pregnancy.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2023-01-05): A conceptual artificial womb facility called EctoLife is providing a glimpse into one possible future of fertility. Conceived by biotechnologist, filmmaker and sci-fi author Hashem Al-Ghaili, EctoLife would be powered entirely by renewable energy and accommodate up to 400 "growth pods" — allowing for the incubation of up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year. [...] While EctoLife is still just a concept, Al-Ghaili’s vision certainly does pose some interesting questions about what the future holds for fertility and reproduction.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2023-01-05): EctoLife is merely a concept that provides parents to produce customised babies. Hashem Al-Ghaili, Berlin-based producer, filmmaker, science communicator, and "molecular biologist by trade" came up with the idea. [...] Al-Ghaili claims that "groundbreaking scientific research" carried out by researchers all over the world for more than fifty years serves as the foundation for EctoLife. It will be able to produce 30,000 babies annually in transparent "growth pods" in a laboratory. [...] According to Interesting Engineering (IE), EctoLife gives parents the option to have children without going through pregnancy or even conception.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-17): Yemeni molecular biotechnologist Hashem Al-Ghaili created the 8:39-minute animation video, which depicts EctoLife, a hypothetical artificial womb facility. The enormous laboratory has a vast number of pods, or artificial wombs, which are used to develop infants. According to the video, the facility will be powered by renewable energy. "Ectolife allows infertile couples to conceive a baby and become the actual parents of their offspring. It is an ideal alternative for ladies who had their uterus surgically removed owing to cancer or other issues," says the video’s narration. [...] EctoLife’s artificial womb allows your baby to grow in an infection-free environment. Every pod, according to Ghaili, is meant to mimic the precise circumstances that exist inside the mother’s uterus. Each year, a single facility can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown newborns.Parents and Ectolife employees will be able to examine real-time statistics on the baby’s developmental progress thanks to a sophisticated digital screen. A phone app can also be used to view the data. The sensors on the pods can monitor and display the baby’s vital signs, such as heartbeat, temperature, blood pressure, breathing rate, and oxygen saturation.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-16): EctoLife, the 'world's first artificial womb facility' is just a concept for now, which offers a way for parents to produce customised babies. The concept is the brainchild of Berlin-based Hashem Al-Ghaili, a producer, filmmaker and science communicator and molecular biologist by trade", as per his website. [...] The concept of EctoLife is based on over fifty years of groundbreaking scientific research" by researchers globally, says Al-Ghaili [...] In the video, for a fictional facility called EctoLife, we hear that artificial wombs could provide a solution for cancer patients who've had their uteruses removed, that they could reduce pregnancy complications, and that the pods will help countries experiencing population decline, such as Japan, Bulgaria, South Korea.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2024-07-30): The concept of the EctoLife facility was designed by biotechnologist and science communicator Hashem Al-Ghaili which shows what childbirth might look like future. The artificial womb facility is powered entirely by renewable energy. EctoLife is designed to help countries that are suffering from low populations. The facility enables infertile couples to conceive and become true biological parents of their own children. EctoLife’s concept reminds us of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 dystopian novel "Brave New World". The facility has 75 well-equipped labs. Each cutting-edge lab can house up to 400 growth pods or artificial wombs. Every pod is designed to mimic the exact conditions found inside the uterus. Each year, a single building can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown babies. Each pod has special sensors with monitor signals such as heartbeat, blood pressure, breathing rate, and oxygen saturation. Also, Artificial intelligence generated a system to monitor all physical features of babies and report any potential genetic abnormalities in real-time data.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2023-03-25): Now, a birthing facility could answer Musk's concerns about the world's low birth rates. The world's first artificial womb facility, EctoLife, promises to produce customized babies. [...] Running on renewable energy, the facility plans to house 75 labs, each equipped with up to 400 growth pods or artificial wombs, reports the media outlet. [...] EctoLife aims to grow up to 30,000 babies a year inside its birthing pods.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2024-08-12): The EctoLife video is essentially an advert for artificial pregnancy and birth, showcasing a laboratory that is capable of growing your very own fetus in chambers that mimic the conditions of a natural womb. Evidently, it presents an intriguing concept. The video describes the facility as capable of growing up to 30,000 babies in these artificial wombs, which seems simple enough and even useful. Yet the truth is, this facility does not exist. [...] In his cameo Al-Ghaili states that he designed the concept of EctoLife, another misleading claim. According to FullFact, artificial wombs have actually been used to grow mouse fetuses (see BioNews 1190) and lambs for short periods although it has never been used to grow a human. The video deceptively frames EctoLife as a near-term reality, but scientists in the Netherlands who are actively working on this idea, say it will be at least a decade before this becomes commercially viable. Even then, babies will not be able to be grown completely outside the womb. Misinformation aside, Al-Ghaili presents EctoLife as an empathetic solution to combat severe population decline but instead it triggers an air of artificiality and cold scientific separation from fertility. In essence, it is not a very good advert. Paradoxically, it seems to be a kind of warning of what life could be like if we continue to allow scientific innovation to continue without any ethical checks and balances.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2023-05-01): "A single building can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year." This is Ecto Life’s vision for the future of birth, as outlined in a widely covered concept video last December. It boasted of 75 highly-equipped labs, each with 400 "growth pods" – or artificial wombs – that replicate the exact conditions of a uterus. The baby in each pod would receive customized nutrients determined by an artificial intelligence-based system, while parents would be able to track their baby’s growth progress and vital signs from their phones. Except Ecto Life doesn’t exist – yet. [...] AWT envisions a future where technology will render C-sections and premature birth redundant, and solve infertility. As the Ecto Life video progresses, however, the ethics of such a future where babies can be manufactured in laboratories grows murkier. "And if you want your baby to stand out and have a brighter future, our Elite Package offers you the opportunity to genetically engineer the embryo…" the voiceover continues. It says, parents will be able to edit their baby’s traits, customizing everything from their hair color to their height and level of intelligence – thus evoking the same concerns that led to a raging debate on "designer babies" not long ago.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2022-12-13): EctoLife, able to grow 30,000 babies a year, is said to be based on over fifty years of groundbreaking scientific research. [...] ‘EctoLife artificial womb is designed to alleviate human suffering and reduce the chances of C-sections. [...] Every pod is designed to replicate the exact conditions that exist inside the mother’s uterus. A single building can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2023-01-02): The baby-rearing company EctoLife now exists only as Al-Ghaili's thought experiment. But the state of science is hardly an obstacle anymore. Technically, the ideal conditions for a baby can be mimicked in a transparent artificial womb, EctoLife's EZ Womb. After all, back in 2017, scientists managed to grow a lamb in an artificial womb. [...] Although Al-Ghaili has no concrete plans to build EctoLife yet, he says this is all perfectly possible based on current knowledge. For now, the filmmaker wants to start the conversation about it. He says that machine-made baby rearing could be very common within a few decades. Starting with people who cannot have children naturally (anymore). "It is a perfect solution for women whose uterus has been surgically removed because of cancer or other complications. It could also help solve problems arising from low sperm count," Al-Ghaili told the popular science magazine Science and Stuff. According to him, EctoLife could make "miscarriage ultimately a thing of the past".
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2023-03-20): An animation video which shows artificial incubation of babies is being widely shared. The video is being shared with a claim that a company named EctoLife is producing 30,000 such lab-grown artificial babies every year. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post. [...] However, the facility is not in operational stage currently. It is just a concept pitched by Hashem Al Ghaili. He introduced this concept in December 2022. According to Hashem Al Ghaili, Ecto Life could grow around 30,000 babies. He further added that this could help people to produce customized babies. Introducing the concept, Hashem Al Ghaili, shared the same video on his YouTube channel.
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2023-01-18): "They want to produce 30,000 lab-grown babies a year," reads the video's caption. "Mankind needs to stop tampering with God's original design and plan for humanity." [...] "EctoLife allows infertile couple (sic) to conceive a baby and become the true biological parents of their own offspring," the narrator says. [...] - Dr. Guid Oei, Jan. 12, Email exchange with USA TODAY - Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Jan. 16, Email exchange with USA TODAY - Hashem Al-Ghaili, Jan. 12, Email exchange with USA TODAY - Hashem Al-Ghaili (YouTube), Dec. 9, 2022, EctoLife: The world's first artificial womb facility - AFP, Jan. 10, Social media users misled by animation video of 'artificial womb facility'
Claim: EctoLife is producing 30,000 lab-grown artificial babies every year (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-02)
Evidence (2024-04-08): Controversial clinic expects to develop 30,000 lab-grown babies yearly - [...] BERLIN — A biotechnologist in Germany is developing the world’s first artificial womb facility, and it lets you choose baby’s characteristics from a menu. EctoLife, able to grow 30,000 babies a year, is said to be based on over fifty years of groundbreaking scientific research. [...] The facility features 75 highly equipped labs, with each able to accommodate up to 400 growth pods or artificial wombs. Every pod is designed to replicate the exact conditions that exist inside the mother’s uterus. A single building can incubate up to 30,000 lab-grown babies per year.