Is Science Alert biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Science Alert in the centre. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
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Who owns it
- ScienceAlert Pty. Ltd.Independentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Official site
- sciencealert.com
- Seen publishing on
- sciencealert.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Science Alert is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Science Alert: its report arrived a median of 21 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Science AlertCentreHigh factuality'Clear Evidence': Ancient DNA From Chilean Mummies Reveals Who Brought Smallpox to The Americas (opens Science Alert in a new tab)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Our report: Ancient DNA links colonial smallpox in Americas to European strains
Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.