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Jamaica already recorded tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases as of March 2021, contrary to viral meme suggesting that smoking cannabis prevents infections
Claim:
“Jamaica has not recorded any cases of the coronavirus”
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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
Claim:
Tinnitus is your first real warning signal that your brain could be dying
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InaccurateMessenger RNA is essential for life and a normal component of cells; study by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering is unrelated to RNA vaccines
Claim:
“Scientists at Sloan Kettering discover mRNA inactivates tumor-suppressing proteins, meaning it can promote cancer”
Source: Natural News, S.D. Wells, 2021-03-02 -
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 -
No evidence that the milk protein casein causes cancer; claim is based on animal studies involving other well-known risk factors for liver cancer like hepatitis B virus infection
Claim:
“Milk from cows 'has the most relevant carcinogen ever identified’ and ‘turns on cancer'“
Source: Collective Evolution, Arjun Walia, 2019-01-30 -
Could scientists use the bat coronavirus RaTG13 to engineer SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in a lab?
One of the biggest outstanding questions of the COVID-19 pandemic is the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the…
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InaccurateNo aborted fetal tissue or cells in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
Claim:
“The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has aborted fetal tissue from aborted babies from the retina as well as from kidney cells”
Source: Instagram, Rizza Islam, 2021-03-14 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 RNA vaccines are safe, cannot modify human DNA; death rate in vaccinated people isn’t higher than in unvaccinated people
Claim:
“The protein then can bind to your DNA and irreversibly change it”; “[It] has several different type of lipids on it that have never been injected into human beings before”; “We could be looking at right now as many as 12,000 deaths”
Source: Daystar, Sherri Tenpenny, 2021-03-11 -
Flawed reasoningOxygen in the air doesn’t prevent people from getting tetanus through cuts with dirty or rusty objects; the vaccine is important to prevent infection
Claim:
“The tetanus bacteria is an anaerobic bacteria. That means that it cannot live in the presence of oxygen. You cannot get tetanus by stepping on a rusty nail.“
Source: Facebook, Steven Baker, 2021-03-07 -
InaccurateMask mandates are associated with reductions in the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths; contrary to One America News article
Claim:
“CDC: Face Masks Don’t Prevent COVID-19, Study Finds Masks Have Negligible Impact on Coronavirus Numbers”; CDC “admitted such mandates do not make any statistical difference.”
Source: One America News Network, OANN editors, 2021-03-07
