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Earth was hotter in the past, but that doesn’t make humans safer from modern climate change
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It is not too hot now. Temperatures and CO2 are lower now than they have been throughout nearly the entire history of the Earth.
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Source: Wide Awake Media, X/Twitter, Patrick Moore, 2025-01-07 -
InaccurateThe human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has been circulating for decades and isn’t a side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
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“Pfizer has disclosed that Human Metapneumovirus is one of the potential side effects of their mRNA vaccine”
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-06 -
InaccuratePfizer didn’t release a list of COVID-19 vaccine side effects in 2025, contrary to allegations on social media
Claim:
“Pfizer just released a few days ago the side effects of the jab” ; this lists contains more than forty medical conditions that are side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-02 -
IncorrectNew study from Brazil doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines increase risk of death in the long term
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COVID-19 vaccines had a short-term “negligible” benefit, but caused a "substantially greater risk of death”, a new study showed
Source: Facebook, Patrick Flynn, 2024-12-28 -
UnsupportedIngredients in bird flu vaccine Audenz are safe in the amounts present; no evidence that they’re toxic or cause cancer
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Bird flu vaccine contains dog DNA and other ingredients that are toxic or carcinogenic
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-01 -
InaccurateTire fires in Kuwait have a much smaller climate influence than methane emissions from cows, contrary to claims
Claim:
Cow farts [methane emissions from cattle] are blamed for climate change, but there are bigger issues like people burning millions of tires in the deserts of Kuwait.
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2024-11-23 -
UnsupportedUterus doesn’t require “cleansing”; onion tea can’t cure gynecological conditions like fibroids, cysts, or irregular periods
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Onion tea can “cleanse” the uterus and eliminate fibroids, cysts, and irregular periods
Source: Instagram, Facebook, Social media users, 2024-12-15 -
UnsupportedClaim that herbs and mushrooms listed in Nicole Apelian’s book “The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies” are cures for herpes and HIV is baseless
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Several natural products like plants and mushrooms are a cure for herpes and HIV infection
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2024-12-17 -
CorrectFacebook meme correctly states that vaccines led to eradication of polio and smallpox, not “natural herd immunity”
Claim:
"I don't know who needs to hear this but Polio and smallpox never reached natural herd immunity, they were eradicated by vaccines"
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-12-10 -
UnsupportedMore evidence needed to confirm association between Alzheimer’s prevention and supplements like curcumin, green tea, or lion’s mane
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Three supplements (curcumin, green tea, and lion’s mane) can stop Alzheimer’s disease before it starts
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Robert W. B. Love, 2023-12-29
