Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-07-10 No research shows that COVID-19 vaccines promote cancer in people; study cited as evidence tested the spike protein from the virus in laboratory cells Claim: “SPIKE PROTEINS FROM COVID SHOTS COULD PROMOTE CANCER GROWTH” Source: Facebook, America's Frontline Doctors, 2024-07-01
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-06-20 Contrary to headline by The People’s Voice, COVID-19 vaccines aren’t “killing millions” but instead prevented deaths Claim: COVID-19 vaccines “are killing millions” Source: The People’s Voice, Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2024-05-31
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-05-31 Parkinson’s has no cure; nicotine patches haven’t been proven an effective treatment Claim: Nicotine patches can cure Parkinson’s disease Source: Flyover Conservatives, Bryan Ardis, 2024-04-14
Misleading Health Posted on: 2024-05-10 Very rare cases of blood clots linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are well-known and have been publicly recognized since 2021 Claim: AstraZeneca admits for the first time that its COVID-19 vaccine can cause blood clots Source: The Washington Times, The Independent, The Blaze, Liz Wheeler, Dan Bongino, 2024-04-28
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-04-25 Current scientific evidence doesn’t demonstrate that coconut oil prevents or treats Alzheimer’s Claim: “Coconut oil in your diet is a remedy for Alzheimer’s” Source: Facebook, John Gray, Social media users, 2024-04-17
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-04-15 Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche makes unsupported prediction that mass COVID-19 vaccination will cause an immune “collapse” Claim: COVID-19 vaccines will cause a “massive tsunami” of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths due to immune escape; Immune “dysregulation” in vaccinated people is turning COVID-19 into “a more chronic disease that we call long COVID” Source: Kunstlercast, Geert Vanden Bossche, 2024-03-31
Misleading Health Posted on: 2024-04-03 2019 report by TV host Sharyl Attkisson exaggerates one expert’s opinion in court case to claim vaccines cause autism Claim: Government silenced “top expert witness” who denied the vaccine-autism link in court and changed opinion; his testimony could have changed the court’s decision Source: Full Measure, Sharyl Attkisson, 2019-01-06
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-03-20 Castor oil is only medically recognized as a laxative; other alleged medical benefits, including treating cancer, lack scientific support Claim: “Scar tissue, bone spurs, tumors, [castor oil is] excellent for breaking that up” Source: Facebook, TikTok, Barbara O'Neill, 2024-03-12
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-03-15 No evidence that persistent symptoms are more frequent after COVID-19 vaccination than after infection, contrary to an op-ed in The Hill Claim: “U.S. doctors found that ’long Covid’ developed in 70 percent of cases after vax injection, not after infection” Source: Disclose.tv, The Hill, Pierre Kory, Paul Marik, 2024-03-06
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-03-07 Childhood vaccine ingredients are safe in the amount present in vaccines; cells, animal products, and viruses aren’t part of these ingredients Claim: Childhood vaccines contain “mixed up toxins” including formaldehyde, aluminum, aborted fetal DNA, fetal bovine serum, monkey kidney cells, mercury, pig circoviruses Source: Instagram, Social media user, 2024-03-03