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Instagram reel promotes the baseless claim that viruses don’t exist, ignoring more than a century of science about infectious diseases
Claim:
Viruses don’t exist, terrain theory explains why diseases occur
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Source: Cultivate Elevate, Matt Roeske, 2024-02-11 -
“Disease X”: How pandemic preparedness talks spawned conspiracy theories online
On 17 January 2024, public health experts including Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), held…
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InaccurateClaim that myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines carries serious risk of death is based on flawed study
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Study shows myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination carries serious risk of death
Source: The Blaze, Joseph Mackinnon, 2024-01-29 -
Flawed reasoningEpidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work
Claim:
Polio vaccine doesn’t work; India had no cases of non-polio paralysis until polio vaccine was introduced; polio was renamed to hide its existence
Source: Instagram, Jaclyn Simone, 2024-01-23 -
IncorrectIncorrect claim that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 143,233% surge in cancer results from flawed calculations that misuse adverse event reporting data
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“Official CDC data: 143,233% surge in fatal cancers among Vaxxed Americans”
Source: The Exposé, Anonymous, 2024-01-27 -
Flawed reasoningFalse-positive HIV tests don’t imply that a person is immunodeficient, contrary to claim by Peter McCullough
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“The HIV test can turn positive after COVID-19 as well as the vaccine”; “maybe a form of immunodeficiency is there”
Source: Instagram, Rumble, Peter McCullough, 2024-01-19 -
InaccurateVaccines don’t cause childhood cancer, contrary to claim by Candace Owens
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Vaccines have caused an "explosion" of childhood cancer; vaccine package insert states vaccines weren’t tested for mutagenic effect
Source: Twitter, Candace Owens, 2024-01-19 -
UnsupportedRussell Brand’s YouTube videos use flawed analyses and simplistic correlations to link COVID-19 vaccines to heart issues, cancer, excess deaths
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COVID-19 vaccines are associated with an increase in heart conditions, cancer
Source: YouTube, Russell Brand, 2024-01-10 -
IncorrectFolk remedy of placing raw onions on feet to cure illness lacks scientific evidence
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Placing raw onion on the bottom of the feet eliminates illness
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2023-12-27 -
UnsupportedRat study alleged to link COVID-19 vaccines to autism cannot be generalized to humans and contains important limitations
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“COVID-19 Shots Linked to Autism in Vaccinated Rats: Study”
Source: Twitter/X, Substack, The Epoch Times, Social media users, 2024-01-12
