Lacks context
Flu vaccine reduces risk of flu-related illness and hospitalization, even though it hasn’t eradicated flu
Claim:
“We’ve had the flu vaccine for 78 years. We still have the flu.”
Flora Teoh
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Source: Threads, Social media user, 2025-02-08 -
InaccurateJapanese study misrepresented in posts claiming “heart failure surges among Covid-vaccinated”
Claim:
“Japan sounds alarm as heart failure surges among Covid-vaccinated”
Source: TikTok, Slay News, Facebook, Frank Bergman, Social media users, 2025-01-18 -
MisleadingFlawed analysis of Florida Medicaid data used to promote false claim that vaccines cause autism
Claim:
“New peer-reviewed study again confirms childhood vaccines are likely responsible for nearly 80% of the autism cases in US”
Source: Substack, X/Twitter, Steve Kirsch, 2025-01-25 -
InaccurateNature Biotechnology study misrepresented in social media posts claiming “all mRNA jabs cause heart damage”
Claim:
Nature study shows “all mRNA jabs cause heart damage”
Source: X/Twitter, Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-15 -
CorrectFacebook meme correctly states that vaccines led to eradication of polio and smallpox, not “natural herd immunity”
Claim:
"I don't know who needs to hear this but Polio and smallpox never reached natural herd immunity, they were eradicated by vaccines"
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-12-10 -
UnsupportedNo, study didn’t find that seed oils fuel “explosion of colon cancers in young people”
Claim:
“Doctors warn cooking oil used by millions may be fueling explosion of colon cancers in young people”
Source: Daily Mail, Emily Joshu, 2024-12-10 -
InaccurateClaim that 79.4% of SIDS deaths occurred on same day as vaccination misinterprets CDC study
Claim:
“79.4% of babies who die of SIDS had a vaccine the same day”
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-03 -
IncorrectBleaching agent chlorine dioxide is toxic, isn’t cure for autism
Claim:
Chlorine dioxide cures autism
Source: Digital Social Hour, Jonathan Otto, 2024-01-05 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that John D. Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing” or had practitioners arrested and jailed
Claim:
Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing modalities” to profit from petroleum-based medicine, had natural medicine practitioners arrested and jailed
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2023-05-09 -
MisleadingFlawed analysis by Peter McCullough and others used to promote baseless claim that brain blood clots “112,000% more likely” after COVID-19 vaccine than flu vaccine
Claim:
Brain blood clots are 112,000% more likely to occur after COVID-19 vaccine than after the flu vaccine
Source: McCullough Foundation, Peter McCullough, 2024-09-06
