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Claim that 79.4% of SIDS deaths occurred on same day as vaccination misinterprets CDC study
Claim:
“79.4% of babies who die of SIDS had a vaccine the same day”
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Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-03 -
InaccurateAI-generated videos promote false herbal cure for COPD, a currently incurable lung disease
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“A revolutionary pill that combines over 60 natural herbs” cures COPD within three days
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-11-26 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccine manufacturers produced more than 11 billion doses in 2021
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It would take decades to produce enough COVID-19 to vaccinate the world population
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-01 -
IncorrectScientific evidence shows fluoride in water and toothpaste is safe at recommended levels
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Fluoridated toothpaste can be deadly to children; fluoride causes dental fluorosis, cavities, and cancer
Source: Facebook, Ty Bollinger, 2024-11-27 -
InaccurateFlu shots don’t contain dogs as ingredients; cell lines of canine origin are used during the manufacturing process and eliminated from the final vaccine product
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Dogs are an ingredient in flu shots
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-11-26 -
IncorrectBleaching agent chlorine dioxide is toxic, isn’t cure for autism
Claim:
Chlorine dioxide cures autism
Source: Digital Social Hour, Jonathan Otto, 2024-01-05 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that John D. Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing” or had practitioners arrested and jailed
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Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing modalities” to profit from petroleum-based medicine, had natural medicine practitioners arrested and jailed
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2023-05-09 -
InaccurateMargarine and plastic are chemically unrelated substances, contrary to persistent online claim
Claim:
“Margarine is one molecule away from plastic”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Social media users, 2024-11-19 -
MisleadingFlawed analysis by Peter McCullough and others used to promote baseless claim that brain blood clots “112,000% more likely” after COVID-19 vaccine than flu vaccine
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Brain blood clots are 112,000% more likely to occur after COVID-19 vaccine than after the flu vaccine
Source: McCullough Foundation, Peter McCullough, 2024-09-06 -
IncorrectPopulation aging, not margarine or a low-cholesterol diet, is behind the rise in Alzheimer’s
Claim:
75% of the brain is myelin, which is 100% cholesterol; “Alzheimer’s never existed until 1979”; in the 1970s, animal fats in margarine were replaced with low-cholesterol vegetable oils
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2024-10-04
