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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.”
Source: Facebook, Melissa Sell, 2021-03-17 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines are critical for controlling the pandemic; vaccines still offer partial protection against new variants of the virus
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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: The Highwire, Children's Health Defense, 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, 2026-09-12 -
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”
Source: Natural News, S.D. Wells, 2021-03-02 -
Ivermectin isn’t a highly effective drug for treating COVID-19
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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
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“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
