Is thecooldown.com biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places thecooldown.com as leaning left. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is thecooldown.com biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places thecooldown.com as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is thecooldown.com left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places thecooldown.com as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is thecooldown.com reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for thecooldown.com are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What thecooldown.com has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with thecooldown.com’s own report linked underneath.
Scientists used CRISPR to edit a gene in beagles, producing two dogs whose saliva and hair no longer contain the main allergy-causing protein. The beagles were born in September 2024 and tested on a researcher with dog allergies, who showed no reaction to their samples.
thecooldown.com reported it asCRISPR used gene-editing to create a hypoallergenic beagle (opens thecooldown.com in a new tab)
Researchers used CRISPR to edit a gene in beagles, producing two puppies without the main allergy-causing protein. The study, published in the CRISPR Journal, found the dogs' saliva and fur lacked the protein, and a scientist with severe allergies showed no reaction. Ethical concerns about shelter adoptions were raised.
thecooldown.com reported it asCRISPR used gene-editing to create a hypoallergenic beagle (opens thecooldown.com in a new tab)
Who says so
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How reliably it reports fact
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High factuality
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Who owns it
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Where it publishes from
- Official site
- thecooldown.com
- Seen publishing on
- thecooldown.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 9 August 2026
2 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen thecooldown.com cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of thecooldown.com: its report arrived a median of 5 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 August 2026. Ratings pulled 10 August 2026.
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