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Bringing clarity to misleading claims about wind turbines’ costs, impacts on birds
Claim:
Wind turbines are killing bald eagles, and make you pay more for electricity
Reviews of content from
Gateway Pundit
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Source: Gateway Pundit, Gregory Lyakhov, 2026-01-13 -
MisleadingFebrile seizures after COVID-19 vaccination are rare and aren’t linked to long-term health problems, contrary to implication in Gateway Pundit article
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“FDA admits” that “young children are at a ‘significantly elevated’ risk of seizure after taking the COVID-19 vaccine”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Ben Kew, 2024-03-24 -
InaccurateNo, a court didn’t rule that the FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19
Claim:
Court rules FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19; FDA lost lawsuit, proving ivermectin is effective against COVID-19
Source: Vigilant Fox, Gateway Pundit, Twitter, Jim Hoft, Pierre Kory, Roger O'Handley, 2024-03-22 -
MisleadingSwiss study doesn’t show that Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is dangerous for the heart, John Campbell and The Gateway Pundit exaggerated the study’s conclusions
Claim:
“1 in 35 people showed signs of heart damage after taking the Moderna COVID19 vaccine”; it is a “kill shot”; taking “this kind of risk, it’s just complete madness”
Source: YouTube, Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, John Campbell, 2023-07-26 -
UnsupportedCleveland Clinic study didn’t find that taking more COVID-19 vaccine doses causes increased COVID-19 risk; association alone doesn’t imply causation
Claim:
“People Who Get More COVID Vaccines More Likely to Get the Virus, New Study Shows”
Source: The Hill, The Joe Rogan Experience, Gateway Pundit, Joe Rogan, Jim Hoft, 2023-05-30 -
UnsupportedClaim that hydroxychloroquine is an effective early treatment for COVID-19 isn’t supported by evidence from clinical trials
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“The FDA hid the evidence that HCQ [hydroxychloroquine] was effective in the early treatment of the disease. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of this lie.”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Harvey Risch, Jim Hoft, 2022-09-17 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines provide important benefits; SSRN preprint didn’t find COVID-19 vaccines to be “98 times worse” than the virus
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“Covid-19 Vaccines 98 Times Worse Than the Virus”
Source: Gateway Pundit, The Florida Standard, Jim Hoft, Jonas Vesterberg, 2022-09-12 -
MisleadingCDC’s updated developmental milestone checklists don’t mean that standards for children’s development are lowered; they signal a change in the surveillance strategy
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The CDC “lowered the bar” for developmental milestones instead of acknowledging the effects of COVID-19 restrictions in children
Source: Twitter/X, Gateway Pundit, Facebook, Instagram, Jim Hoft, Social media users, 2022-02-18 -
UnsupportedThere is no evidence that dietary supplements containing zinc and a zinc ionophore, such as the one promoted by Vladimir Zelenko, are effective against COVID-19
Claim:
Zinc supplements can protect against COVID-19; Zinc “kills the virus” and zinc ionophores are a “a zinc delivery system” that “allows zinc to go from outside the cell to inside the cell”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Vladimir Zelenko, 2021-01-06 -
UnsupportedIvermectin study in the city of Itajaí contains several methodological weaknesses, resulting in questionable conclusions
Claim:
A preprint of an ivermectin study in the Brazilian city of Itajaí found that prophylactic ivermectin reduced COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality by half
Source: The Blaze, Zero Hedge, Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, Daniel Horowitz, 2021-12-12
