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Heart attack victims shouldn’t use “cough CPR” on themselves, contrary to chain email dating back to 1999
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Heart attack “victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously”
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Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 1999-06-30 -
Lacks contextGoing vegan may lead to fewer pandemics, but it won’t eliminate them completely
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“In a vegan world there would be no pandemics. 100% of pandemics are zoonotic in origin.”
Source: Facebook, Richard Melville Hall (Moby), 2021-03-23 -
MisleadingClinical trials showed that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is safe; its side effects are mostly mild
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80% of people taking the Moderna vaccine had significant side effects; children in Sudan got polio from the polio vaccine
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IncorrectBoth viruses and bacteria cause disease; pathogenic viruses aren’t naturally created in the body as a response to damage
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“You don’t catch viruses, you naturally create them inside of your body”; “bacteria and viruses don’t cause disease.”
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MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines are critical for controlling the pandemic; vaccines still offer partial protection against new variants of the virus
Claim:
COVID-19 mass vaccination will select for more virulent variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, which will escape vaccine-induced immunity and cause more severe disease
Source: Children's Health Defense, The Highwire, Geert Vanden Bossche, 2021-03-06 -
InaccurateJamaica already recorded tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases as of March 2021, contrary to viral meme suggesting that smoking cannabis prevents infections
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“Jamaica has not recorded any cases of the coronavirus”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-03-19 -
InaccurateTinnitus isn’t a sign of brain death, even though it arises in the brain; no cure for tinnitus currently exists
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Tinnitus is your first real warning signal that your brain could be dying
Source: Tinnitus Battle, Anonymous, 2025-11-12 -
InaccurateMessenger RNA is essential for life and a normal component of cells; study by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering is unrelated to RNA vaccines
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“Scientists at Sloan Kettering discover mRNA inactivates tumor-suppressing proteins, meaning it can promote cancer”
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Ivermectin isn’t a highly effective drug for treating COVID-19
Claim:
Ivermectin reduces the risk of death from COVID-19
Source: YouTube, Tess Lawrie, 2021-03-06
