Lesson plan
Great Phenol Plot
broke the news of the Great Phenol plot and other clandestine pro-German activities that were organized by Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff and Heinrich Albert. The Great Phenol Plot was a clandestine effort by the German government during the early years of World War I to divert American-produced phenol from the manufacture of high explosives that supported the British war effort. Phenol was used by the German-owned Bayer company, which could no longer import the compound from Britain, to produce aspirin.
Article summary
broke the news of the Great Phenol plot and other clandestine pro-German activities that were organized by Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff and Heinrich Albert. The Great Phenol Plot was a clandestine effort by the German government during the early years of World War I to divert American-produced phenol from the manufacture of high explosives that supported the British war effort. Phenol was used by the German-owned Bayer company, which could no longer import the compound from Britain, to produce aspirin.
Key claims
- publication date: 1915-08-15 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
Discussion questions
- Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
- The record states that the publication date is "1915-08-15". What evidence would count against this claim?
- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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