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VERAFIED SAY WHAT: The Philippines DOES NOT have huge deuterium deposits

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: The Philippines DOES NOT have huge deuterium deposits

By VERA Files | Mar 07, 2023 9:43 AM

A YouTube video claimed that the Philippines has rich deposits of a gas called deuterium, discovered during the administration of former president Ferdinand Marcos. This had been ruled out by what was then called the Office of Energy Affairs (OEA).

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The Bongbong and Imelda Marcos deuterium dud

By Miguel Paolo P. Reyes and Joel F. Ariate Jr. | May 07, 2022 10:03 PM

If surveys on the fast-approaching elections hold, the Philippines will soon have a president who has difficulty discerning fact from pseudoscience — the way his mother also does.