Inaccurate
Claim by Brian Hooker that unvaccinated children are healthier compared to vaccinated children relies on flawed studies
Claim:
Vaccinated children are more likely to have poorer health outcomes compared to unvaccinated children
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Children's Health Defense
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Source: Children's Health Defense, Brian Hooker, 2023-07-07 -
InaccurateThere are FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. as of May 2023, contrary to claim by Peter McCullough
Claim:
There are no FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines on the U.S market as of May 2023
Source: Children's Health Defense, Peter McCullough, 2023-05-26 -
InaccurateAnimal studies included in Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine approval application showed no signs of reproductive toxicity
Claim:
“COVID Vaccines Were Never Safe for Pregnant Women, Pfizer’s own data show”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Brownstone Insitute, David Bell, 2023-04-19 -
MisleadingInfection-induced immunity is more unpredictable and poses a higher risk than vaccine-induced immunity
Claim:
“natural immunity provides superior protection to experimental vaccines; “They lied and said Natural Immunity wasn’t better than [vaccine]-induced immunity”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Children's Health Defense, Social media users, 2023-02-17 -
MisleadingPossible increases in cancer rates and lower life expectancy in 2021 are primarily driven by effects of COVID-19, not vaccination
Claim:
“Cancer rates have increased since the introduction of the COVID-19 shots”, which “is driving down U.S. life expectancy”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Joseph Mercola, 2023-01-06 -
MisleadingThe presence of titanium dioxide in face masks hasn’t been associated with toxicity or any health problems
Claim:
Face masks contain a “cancer-causing compound”; “exposure to titanium dioxide ‘systematically exceeded the acceptable exposure level to TiO2 by inhalation’”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Joseph Mercola, 2022-03-11 -
Misleading
The presence of titanium dioxide in face masks hasn’t been associated with toxicity or any health problems
Claim:
Face masks contain a “cancer-causing compound”; “exposure to titanium dioxide ‘systematically exceeded the acceptable exposure level to TiO2 by inhalation’”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Joseph Mercola, 2022-03-11 -
MisleadingPfizer’s confidential document shows adverse events reported following vaccination; it doesn’t demonstrate that the vaccine caused the events or is unsafe
Claim:
Safety surveillance data in the Pfizer’s document shows harmful effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Source: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Children's Health Defense, The Liz Wheeler Show, Social media users, John Campbell, Liz Wheeler, 2022-03-03 -
Flawed reasoningStudy in Vietnam showed that Delta infection results in a higher viral load compared to earlier strains, not that vaccinated people are more infectious than unvaccinated people
Claim:
“vaccinated individuals carry 251 times the load of COVID-19 viruses in their nostrils compared to the unvaccinated”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Peter McCullough, 2021-08-23 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines are critical for controlling the pandemic; vaccines still offer partial protection against new variants of the virus
Claim:
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: Children's Health Defense, The Highwire, Geert Vanden Bossche, 2021-03-06