👤 Angus Dalton

7 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
7
2026-08-26 – 2026-10-05
Claims per article
45
312 extracted in total
Hedged claims
9%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,918
characters
Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Health
57%
Science
29%
Technology
14%
Most-tagged topics
ExamineATAGIAdvanced ScienceAustraliaBalineseBelgianBrisbaneCongo

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.26 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Science
Do animals grieve? Rare footage of this mother and her calf may hold the answer
4 outlets covered this event
2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
‘I thought my brain would explode’: How Ella’s family hike led to painful disease
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Science
‘Ultimate superbug’: New form of antibiotic resistance uncovered
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
Peter Piot helped discover Ebola. Fifty years on, he’s advocating for a ‘holy grail’ vaccine
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
Jess gave birth on an opioid treatment program. It inspired her to start a PhD
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health
Sydney scientist behind ‘moon landing’ cancer vaccine wins top science prize
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans right

What they said would happen

2026-08-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Scientists make giant cyborg cockroaches that can fire drug-filled syringes
🔮 If you ever find yourself buried beneath the rubble of an earthquake’s aftermath or expiring in a remote cave, salvation may not arrive in the form of a dashing rescuer or detection dog, but of a hulking, hissing, spiky-legged cockroach. mixed
2026-09-03 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney scientist behind ‘moon landing’ cancer vaccine wins top science prize
🔮 “We’re a small but mighty country. assertive
2026-09-15 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Jess gave birth on an opioid treatment program. It inspired her to start a PhD
🔮 “And I was like, well, if that’s the protocol, then I would appreciate if someone had told me that, you know?” assertive
2026-09-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Do animals grieve? Rare footage of this mother and her calf may hold the answer
🔮 “There were what appears to be attempts at eye contact, just observing it to see whether, maybe, there was any sign of life,” said Griffith University whale scientist Dr Olaf Meynecke. mixed
2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Peter Piot helped discover Ebola. Fifty years on, he’s advocating for a ‘holy grail’ vaccine
🔮 The letters could still be deciphered: the blood, a physician had written from a clinic in Kinshasa, now the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was from a Belgian nun struck down by an ugly affliction he could not diagnose. assertive
2026-09-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Ultimate superbug’: New form of antibiotic resistance uncovered
🔮 That was the opening salvo in what would become an evolutionary battle between medical researchers and their pathogenic microbial enemies that have rapidly evolved to outfox antibiotics and kill more than 1.2 million people each year through drug-resistant infections. assertive
2026-10-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘I thought my brain would explode’: How Ella’s family hike led to painful disease
🔮 More supply of the live-attenuated virus is expected to bring down the cost following ATAGI’s updated advice. assertive
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