Misleading Health Posted on: 2024-12-18 Unvaccinated people died of COVID-19 at a higher rate than vaccinated people; vaccines prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths Claim: How are "Billions of Unvaxxed people with NO Boosters [...] still alive"? Unvaccinated people should be dead. Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2024-12-08
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-12-11 COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers produced more than 11 billion doses in 2021 Claim: It would take decades to produce enough COVID-19 to vaccinate the world population Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-01
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-12-05 Flu 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 Claim: Dogs are an ingredient in flu shots Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-11-26
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-11-13 No evidence that lemon balm is a cure for bird flu, contrary to claim by Bryan Ardis Claim: “It’s already been proven that lemon balm [...] neutralizes and destroys all avian flu”, including H5N1 Source: The Dr Ardis Show, TikTok, Facebook, Bryan Ardis, 2024-11-03
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-11-08 Nicotine is addictive, drives tobacco dependence; nicotine patches cannot be replaced by eggplants Claim: “nicotine is not addictive”; consuming eggplants could replace nicotine patches Source: Instagram, Facebook, Bryan Ardis, 2024-10-27
Unsupported Health Posted on: 2024-11-05 Computational study didn’t demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccine boosters increase mortality in care homes Claim: “COVID-19 mRNA boosters directly contributed to the deaths of millions of nursing home residents worldwide” Source: The People’s Voice, Baxter Dmitry, 2024-10-20
Inaccurate Health Posted on: 2024-10-25 High blood cholesterol increases the risk of cardiovascular death; statins are safe and effectively reduce this risk Claim: “Nobody has ever died from high cholesterol”; “people die from the statin drugs that they give you for high cholesterol” Source: YouTube, Facebook, Alexander Hickman (aka Yahki Rapha Elohim), 2024-10-10
Incorrect Health Posted on: 2024-10-03 Decline in autism among high-income white households not caused by a decrease in childhood vaccination, vaccines don’t cause autism Claim: Autism and vaccination decreased over the same time period among high-income white households from California, indicating a possible causal relationship Source: Children's Health Defense, Toby Rogers, 2024-08-08
Misleading Health Posted on: 2024-09-19 Higher COVID-19 death toll under Biden than Trump reflects longer presidential term spent managing the COVID-19 pandemic Claim: More deaths from COVID-19 occurred during Biden's administration than Trump's Source: Threads, Social media user, 2024-09-10
Incorrect Health Posted on: 2024-09-11 Gout is an inflammatory disease caused by uric acid crystals, not liver dysfunction Claim: Gout is “a liver condition”; uric acid crystals “aren’t the cause of gout or the cause of gout’s pain” Source: Instagram, Anthony William, 2024-09-04