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Complete vaccine coverage in the U.S. could have prevented almost a quarter of COVID-19 deaths
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“Quarter of U.S. covid deaths were probably preventable with vaccination”
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Source: The Washington Post, Philip Bump, 2022-04-21 -
InaccurateStudy by German researchers didn’t find significant safety concerns with Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to claim by Alex Berenson
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“One in every 500 children under five years who received the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine were hospitalised with a vaccine injury”
Source: Substack, Daily Sceptic, Alex Berenson, Will Jones, 2022-10-20 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccine boosters reduce the risk of infection and hospitalization; they don’t increase the risk, contrary to claims of vaccines’ “negative efficacy”
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A study by Kaiser Permanente “shows negative efficacy of the shots against all variants within 150 days”; “the more you inject, the more you infect”
Source: Conservative Review, Daniel Horowitz, 2022-10-04 -
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InaccurateLink between CO2 and Earth’s temperature is well-established, despite claims on Fox News
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Scientists have found no consistent correlation between CO2 and temperature; scientists do not know whether earth will warm or cool in future
Source: Fox News, Tom Harris, 2022-10-12 -
UnsupportedType 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, but evidence so far doesn’t show that diabetes causes Alzheimer’s
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“Alzheimer’s most of the time is preventable. It’s not genetic, and it’s type 3 diabetes, which is insulin resistance of the brain”
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2022-09-29 -
UnsupportedAnalysis by Florida Department of Health about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines contains multiple methodological problems
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Florida study found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines increase the risk of cardiac-related death, especially in men
Source: Fox News, Twitter/X, Joseph Ladapo, 2022-10-07 -
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Analysis by Florida Department of Health about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines contains multiple methodological problems
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Florida study found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines increase the risk of cardiac-related death, especially in men
Source: Fox News, Twitter/X, Joseph Ladapo, 2022-10-07 -
UnsupportedLittle clinical evidence supports the use of high-dose intravenous vitamin C to treat cancer
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Intravenous vitamin C specifically kills only cancer cells and not healthy cells
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2022-08-21 -
Flawed reasoningScientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan
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“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan, 2022-10-02