Professor Shirley Nott and colleague Dr Reece Ultz have been working tirelessly on the problem for decades and have now broken their silence to reveal their astonishing discovery.

Professor Nott said that late one night, when she was going over her data in the laboratory, something she had never seen before suddenly leapt out at her from the pile of research papers she was going through. It was a cricket that had been attracted by the light. She called Dr Ultz and said, "Reece, I was looking through our data when something jumped out at me that I've never seen before." Dr Ultz commented that he was so excited by the news that he jumped out of bed only to be told that it was a cricket. When he explained to the Professor that he was disappointed that she wasn't calling him to tell him that she had discovered a cure for fake news, she said, "Reece, that's what happens when you jump to conclusions without evidence".

"We both went silent" said Dr Ultz, "All you could hear was crickets and then I shouted, I think you are on to something, Shirley Nott and I got in my car and raced to the lab."

"We worked all night on it," said Professor Nott, "and came up with what we are calling SCIENCE, an acronym for Scientists Collate Intelligent Evidence - News Content Enhancer."

According to Professor Nott, the results have been amazing. "We prepared 100 petri dishes of fake news, applied SCIENCE and within minutes, the fake news was completely gone. Dead. Kaput. We tried every known fake news we could get our hands on - the 5G/coronavirus link, chemtrail/contrail conspiracies, climate science denial, flat earth - every one of them was destroyed by SCIENCE."

Professor Nott and Dr Ultz are quietly confident that the discovery that SCIENCE destroys fake news would earn them a Nobel Prize but were unsure on the best way to deliver SCIENCE to the general public. They admitted directly injecting SCIENCE into the brain was likely to cause controversy so they were testing a range of attractively coloured pills and an experimental skin rub. Both agreed that their studies showed that it didn't seem to matter how SCIENCE got into the brain, once it was in there, it conferred a life-time immunity to fake news.