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AI-generated videos promote false herbal cure for COPD, a currently incurable lung disease
Claim:
“A revolutionary pill that combines over 60 natural herbs” cures COPD within three days
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Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-11-26 -
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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 -
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Scientific evidence shows fluoride in water and toothpaste is safe at recommended levels
Claim:
Fluoridated toothpaste can be deadly to children; fluoride causes dental fluorosis, cavities, and cancer
Source: Facebook, Ty Bollinger, 2024-11-27 -
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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 -
IncorrectHow we know Earth is round, not flat: a review of claims and misconceptions about Earth’s shape
Claim:
Observations show that the Earth is flat.
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-03 -
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No evidence that John D. Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing” or had practitioners arrested and jailed
Claim:
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 -
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Margarine 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 -
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Population 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: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-10-04 -
IncorrectRecent global warming driven by human CO2 emissions, not ‘little ice age’ or urban heat island effects
Claim:
“even IF mankind is influencing the temperature, it is insignificant compared to the natural forces”
Source: Facebook, Steve Milloy, 2024-11-10 -
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Infectious diseases like chickenpox and measles are much more likely to cause serious health problems than vaccination
Claim:
Chickenpox and measles aren’t diseases but infections; unlike diseases, infections go away, leaving behind “a lifetime of immunity”; when you vaccinate, you are potentially “causing a disease”
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-10-25
