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He quit the job at the end of 2010.
Muller's official employment history shows he continued working at Matrix Education after 2010.
Full reasoning
Muller's official Veritasium employment page says he worked at Matrix Education as a Physics Teacher from 2006–2013 and as Head of Science from 2008–2012. Those dates show he did not leave that job at the end of 2010.
The article's claim is therefore contradicted by Muller's own published employment record.
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- Employment - Veritasium
PHYSICS TEACHER Matrix Education, Sydney (2006-2013) ... HEAD OF SCIENCE Matrix Education, Sydney (2008-2012)
whom he married in November 2025.
This marriage date is too late: Derek Muller publicly referred to Raquel as his wife in November 2022, and Scientific American also described her as his wife in May 2025.
Full reasoning
This claim is contradicted by multiple earlier primary or high-quality sources.
- In a WIRED video released on November 25, 2022, Muller answers the question "Is Derek Muller married?" with: "Yes, to a beautiful, wonderful wife, Raquel". That means he was already married by late 2022.
- Scientific American likewise described Raquel Nuno as Muller's wife in an article published May 28, 2025.
Because both sources place the marriage before November 2025, the article's stated marriage date cannot be correct.
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- Watch Veritasium's Derek Muller Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | Autocomplete Interview | WIRED
Released on 11/25/2022 ... Is Derek Muller married? Yes, to a beautiful, wonderful wife, Raquel, who's a planetary geologist, a wonderful mother to my three children.
- How YouTube Star Derek Muller of Veritasium Is Challenging Scientific Misconceptions and Exposing PFAS Contamination | Scientific American
The company he built operates nomadically, though Muller, his wife-planetary scientist Raquel Nuno-and their four children call Lisbon, Portugal, home at the moment.
In May 2025, the video on PFAS, named How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet, was awarded the 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Gold Award.
The Veritasium PFAS video did win a 2025 AAAS Kavli Gold Award, but the award was announced in November 2025, not May 2025. May 14, 2025 was the video's publication date.
Full reasoning
The official AAAS/EurekAlert winners announcement is dated 13-Nov-2025. In that announcement, Veritasium's "How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet" is listed as the Gold Award winner in Video In-Depth Reporting.
The same announcement separately gives May 14, 2025 as the date of the video itself. So the article has mixed up the publication date of the video with the date the award was announced.
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- 2025 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award Winners Named | EurekAlert!
13-Nov-2025 ... Video In-Depth Reporting (more than 20 minutes) Gold Award Gregor Čavlović, Derek Muller and Zoe Heron "How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet" Veritasium May 14, 2025