Misleading
The FDA continues to recommend against ivermectin for treating or preventing COVID-19, despite claims to the contrary
Claim:
“The FDA is now saying that it is OK to prescribe ivermectin [for COVID-19]”
Reviews of content from
TikTok
-
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2023-08-15 -
InaccurateConspiracy theory about the deaths of alternative medicine practitioners ignores evidence, misrepresents certain doctors
Claim:
Doctors murdered to protect Big Pharma profits and silence holistic health practitioners
Source: TikTok, Katryna Benson, 2023-07-04 -
InaccurateLab-grown meat isn’t made of cancerous cells
Claim:
Cultivated meat is produced using “cancerous and pre-cancerous cells”
Source: TikTok, TikTok user, 2023-03-20 -
IncorrectNo scientific evidence indicates that parasites are the key cause of autoimmunity
Claim:
“the number 1 indicator of parasites is actually an autoimmune condition”
Source: TikTok, Austin Lake, 2023-06-23 -
InaccurateBreast cancer cases haven’t doubled in U.S. women under 45, despite social media claims
Claim:
“There is a huge boom in cancer, especially in female breast cancer in the younger ages of 45 and below.”
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2023-06-18 -
IncorrectMagnetic poles reversals are not cataclysmic events as claimed in the ‘Adam and Eve’ theory discussed on Joe Rogan podcast
Claim:
Magnetic poles reversals involve the Earth flipping vertically and momentarily stopping its rotation, causing cataclysmic events during 6 days.
Source: Spotify, TikTok, The Joe Rogan Experience, Jimmy Corsetti, Joe Rogan, 2023-01-18 -
UnsupportedLack of clinical evidence for the claim that dog dewormer fenbendazole cures cancer
Claim:
Fenbendazole cures cancer
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Joe Tippens, 2023-05-17 -
UnsupportedNo evidence supports the use of medicinal plants mullein and marshmallow to cure or mitigate COVID-19
Claim:
Mullein leaves and marshmallow roots treat COVID-19
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Facebook user, 2023-03-12 -
IncorrectAlleged Morgellons test with cranberry juice doesn’t show nanoparticles, but precipitates from tannin-protein interactions
Claim:
Morgellons test using cranberry juice pulls out nanoparticles from chemtrails and air pollution
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2023-01-21 -
InaccurateSweetgum balls don’t contain Tamiflu’s active ingredient and there’s no evidence of an antiviral effect against COVID-19
Claim:
Sweetgum balls contain the same active ingredient that Tamiflu contains, which is shikimic acid; It kills viruses including SARS-CoV-2
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2023-01-17