Inaccurate
NHS data doesn’t support Epoch Times’ claim that myocarditis only occurs after COVID-19 vaccines
Claim:
“Myocarditis and pericarditis only occur after vaccination and not after COVID-19 infection.”
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Source: The Epoch Times, Marina Zhang, 2024-06-03 -
Inaccurate
Mammograms don’t increase risk of dying from breast cancer; they reduce it
Claim:
Mammograms don’t prevent cancer; mammograms contribute to cancer development
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Barbara O'Neill, 2024-05-22 -
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Evidence so far doesn’t indicate an association between COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune diseases
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a higher risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases
Source: YouTube, The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly, 2023-09-06 -
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No research shows that dandelion can kill cancer cells or treat cancer in humans
Claim:
Dandelion is able to “kill 98% of cancer cells within 48 hours”
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-05-06 -
Misleading
Vaccines don’t contain cells or tissues of aborted fetuses
Claim:
Some vaccines “incorporate aborted fetal tissue”
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2024-04-23 -
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Modified RNA in COVID-19 vaccines isn’t linked to cancer development
Claim:
A review “has found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could aid cancer development”
Source: The Highwire, America's Frontline Doctors, Social media users, 2024-04-16 -
Inaccurate
Video of person smoking in a pile of body bags isn’t a staging of COVID-19 victims but part of a Russian music video
Claim:
A video showed people “preparing body bags for the evening news clip during the pandemic”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-04-11 -
Flawed reasoning
Country-to-country comparison doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, contrary to Facebook post by journalist Sharyl Attkisson
Claim:
“As more people got vaccinated for Covid, more people got Covid.”
Source: Facebook, Sharyl Attkisson, 2024-04-01 -
Misleading
Febrile seizures after COVID-19 vaccination are rare and aren’t linked to long-term health problems, contrary to implication in Gateway Pundit article
Claim:
“FDA admits” that “young children are at a ‘significantly elevated’ risk of seizure after taking the COVID-19 vaccine”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Ben Kew, 2024-03-24 -
Are claims linking recent U.S. trends in cancer diagnoses to COVID-19 vaccines plausible? A look at the available data
Since it takes several years to gather, verify, and consolidate cancer data at the national level, there’s no real-time way to monitor national cancer trends. Medical experts have also explained that there is no plausible mechanism or data that connect COVID-19 vaccines to cancer.
