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Peter McCullough’s claim that COVID-19 vaccines might have caused rise in sudden deaths relies on flawed analysis
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccine myocarditis is common and linked to sudden death
Iria Carballo-Carbajal
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Source: Facebook, Peter McCullough, 2024-09-12 -
InaccurateEdible food coating Apeel doesn’t contain toxic ingredients; its ingredients are recognized as safe for use in foods
Claim:
Apeel contains harmful ingredients
Source: One America News Network, TikTok, Facebook, Alison Steinberg, Social media users, 2024-06-26 -
IncorrectUnprotected sun overexposure, not sunscreen or sunglasses, causes sunburn and skin cancer
Claim:
“sunscreen and then skin cancer, it's a direct correlation”; wearing sunglasses increases the risk of sunburn; sunscreen reduces vitamin D production
Source: Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2024-07-11 -
UnsupportedNo 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 -
InaccurateContrary 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 -
InaccurateParkinson’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 -
MisleadingVery 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 Independent, The Washington Times, The Blaze, Liz Wheeler, Dan Bongino, 2024-04-28 -
UnsupportedCurrent 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 -
UnsupportedVirologist 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 -
Misleading2019 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
