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Popular Facebook meme misleadingly suggests that the measles vaccine caused 2019 Samoa measles outbreak
Claim:
Measles vaccine caused Samoa measles outbreak
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Source: Stop Mandatory Vaccination, Anonymous, 2019-12-07 -
1.7Very highABC article effectively illustrates important climate trends for Australian readers
“This article is exceptionally good in delivering accurate information in an engaging way. There are many useful statements made about the effects of climate change on extreme weather globally and in Australia and these have been backed up by links to relevant peer-reviewed literature.”
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UnsupportedThe flu shot is safe and does not cause cancer, contrary to popular claim by chiropractor
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The flu shot is made with cancer-causing ingredients
Source: Anonymous Notables, John Bergman, 2018-04-28 -
InaccurateMike Adams falsely claims cancer genes and “entire genetic code” are found in vaccines, based on unverified report
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Vaccines [have been] found laced with entire genetic code for abnormal human loaded with cancer genes
Source: Natural News, Corvelva, Mike Adams, 2019-10-05 -
+1HighNew York Times accurately reports vaccine-derived polio outbreaks caused by low vaccine coverage
“The content of the article is correct: attenuated polio strain type 2 contained in the oral vaccine can – in very rare cases – mutate and cause disease in under-immunized persons. However it might be good to specify that if the vaccine coverage is good, this will not happen (so the vaccine coverage has to be maintained, since it has prevented 13 million cases since 2000, according to the WHO).”
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-2Very lowIan Plimer op-ed in The Australian again presents long list of false claims about climate
“This article is a mixture of misdirection, misleading claims, and outright falsehoods. The author attempts to paint a picture of current climate change as simply a continuation of natural changes that have occurred in the past. But this neglects the clear evidence that climate change over the last two centuries has been shown to be largely man-made, that it is much more rapid that anything we have seen in the last two thousand years if not longer, and that it is occurring in the context of a globe with more than 7 billion human inhabitants.”
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UnsupportedStudies worldwide demonstrate HPV vaccine safety and no association with serious autoimmune and neurological diseases or problems during pregnancy
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the autoimmune diseases and menstrual cycle problems and fertility problems [...] and all of the other things that we’ve now seen are associated with the [HPV] vaccine
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2019-05-15 -
InaccurateBedrock heat flow studies made no claim contradicting human-caused melting of glaciers
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[A] series of just-released studies by working-level scientists prove that geological and not atmospheric forces are responsible for melting of Earth’s polar ice sheets.
Source: Climate Change Dispatch, James Edward Kamis, 2018-08-07 -
-0.5LowDaily Mail article misleads with clickbait headline claiming cowpox-derived virus will “kill every type of cancer”
“This article substantially overhypes early pre-clinical work with a viral therapy that has not yet been tested in even the earliest stages of human clinical trials. The headline is particularly misleading as I can find only three published papers suggesting the therapy has efficacy in lung, breast and colorectal cancers in cell lines and mouse models only.”
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UnsupportedBone spurs occasionally form at the base of human skulls, but their growth has not been linked to the use of handheld devices
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‘Horns’ are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests.
Source: The Washington Post, Isaac Stanley-Becker, 2019-06-25
