Charles Chiu Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Expertise: Emerging viruses, metagenomics Review Type Allclaim (1) Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-10-06 Study led by UCSF researchers didn’t study vaccinated people’s susceptibility to variants; it found vaccine breakthrough cases to be a minority of infections Claim: “The California study finds that vaccinated individuals are more susceptible to COVID variant infections than unvaccinated” Source: The Conservative Treehouse, Anonymous, 2021-10-03 Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2020-01-10 Impossible Whopper contains no estrogen; will not lead to men growing breasts if eaten in moderation Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen Source: Tri-State Livestock News, James Stanger, 2019-12-20 Incorrect Climate Posted on: 2017-12-01 Prof. John Christy incorrectly claims to show climate models are too sensitive to carbon dioxide Claim: the real atmosphere is less sensitive to CO2 than what has been forecast by climate models Source: The Daily Caller, John Christy, 2017-11-29
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2021-10-06 Study led by UCSF researchers didn’t study vaccinated people’s susceptibility to variants; it found vaccine breakthrough cases to be a minority of infections Claim: “The California study finds that vaccinated individuals are more susceptible to COVID variant infections than unvaccinated” Source: The Conservative Treehouse, Anonymous, 2021-10-03
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2020-01-10 Impossible Whopper contains no estrogen; will not lead to men growing breasts if eaten in moderation Claim: The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen Source: Tri-State Livestock News, James Stanger, 2019-12-20
Incorrect Climate Posted on: 2017-12-01 Prof. John Christy incorrectly claims to show climate models are too sensitive to carbon dioxide Claim: the real atmosphere is less sensitive to CO2 than what has been forecast by climate models Source: The Daily Caller, John Christy, 2017-11-29