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Modified RNA in COVID-19 vaccines isn’t linked to cancer development
Claim:
A review “has found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could aid cancer development”
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Source: The Highwire, America's Frontline Doctors, Social media users, 2024-04-16 -
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Eating excess salt increases the risk of high blood pressure, contrary to wellness coach’s claims
Claim:
“Salt does not raise blood pressure”
Source: Facebook, Sean Christopher, 2024-04-18 -
Misleading
No evidence for a significant influence of volcanoes or solar variability on recent climate change contrary to Judith Curry’s claims in PragerU video
Claim:
Climate scientists disagree about how much warming is associated with our emissions and whether this warming is larger than natural climate variability from the sun and volcanic eruptions
Source: PragerU, Judith Curry, 2024-04-15 -
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Carbon isotopes do not show that humans’ climate impacts are too small to notice, despite the Daily Sceptic’s inaccurate claim
Claim:
Human-caused carbon emissions’ effect on climate is ‘non-discernible’. Measurements of carbon isotope ratios in atmospheric CO2 indicate that it is the recent expansion of a more productive biosphere that has led to increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
Source: Daily Sceptic, Chris Morrison, 2024-04-08 -
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Current scientific evidence doesn’t demonstrate that coconut oil prevents or treats Alzheimer’s
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“Coconut oil in your diet is a remedy for Alzheimer’s”
Source: Facebook, John Gray, Social media users, 2024-04-17 -
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No evidence budesonide, clarithromycin, and aspirin combination is “silver bullet” for COVID-19, contrary to Texas doctor’s claim
Claim:
Richard Bartlett found ‘“Silver Bullet” Covid Protocol’ but was silenced
Source: Big Honker Podcast, Richard Bartlett, 2024-01-30 -
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Current evidence shows COVID-19 vaccination doesn’t increase risk of sudden cardiac death
Claim:
“COVID-19 vaccinations affect your risk” of sudden cardiac death
Source: Instagram, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-04-13 -
Inaccurate
Video of person smoking in a pile of body bags isn’t a staging of COVID-19 victims but part of a Russian music video
Claim:
A video showed people “preparing body bags for the evening news clip during the pandemic”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-04-11 -
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Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche makes unsupported prediction that mass COVID-19 vaccination will cause an immune “collapse”
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines will cause a “massive tsunami” of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths due to immune escape; Immune “dysregulation” in vaccinated people is turning COVID-19 into “a more chronic disease that we call long COVID”
Source: Kunstlercast, Geert Vanden Bossche, 2024-03-31 -
Flawed reasoning
Country-to-country comparison doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, contrary to Facebook post by journalist Sharyl Attkisson
Claim:
“As more people got vaccinated for Covid, more people got Covid.”
Source: Facebook, Sharyl Attkisson, 2024-04-01
