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IncorrectNo device can plug into your car’s fusebox to improve engine efficiency and turn it into a hybrid
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Plugging this device into a car’s fuse box can reduce fuel consumption by at least 35% and up to 75% by converting the car into a hybrid.
Source: Christianity Today, Anonymous, 2021-04-15 -
-1.8Very lowCO2 coalition sponsored article in The Washington Times presents list of false and misleading statements about the impacts of CO2 and climate change
“This article recycles old tropes such as “it’s been warm before”, “CO2 levels have been higher in the past” (millions of years ago!), “CO2 is plant food”, “warming is good for ecosystems/humans”, “so far impacts are small, so they will remain small”, etc. All these pseudo-arguments have been addressed many times before (see examples here, here, and here). This article is clearly motivated, misleading and biased.”
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There is no evidence that eating cucumbers reduces the risk of cancer; cucumbers contain cucurbitacin B, which could be a candidate for developing new anti-cancer drugs
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“Cucumber kills lung cancer cells”; “cucurbitacin B suppressed growth of human lung cancer cells by 90%, reduced their ability to invade surrounding tissues by 75% and reduced migration ability by 88%”
Source: The Eden Prescription, Ethan Evers, 2021-04-26 -
-1.7Very lowWall Street Journal article repeats multiple incorrect and misleading claims made in Steven Koonin’s new book ’Unsettled’
Scientists who reviewed the article found that it builds on a collection of misleading and false claims. For instance, Koonin states that “Greenland’s ice sheet isn’t shrinking any more rapidly today than it was eighty years ago”. Contrary to the claim, scientific studies using airborne and satellite altimetry observations show considerable thinning has occurred along the margin of the Greenland ice sheet since 2003.
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InaccurateVaccines do provide immunity and can be used to achieve herd immunity
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Vaccines don’t promise immunity and therefore “vaccine herd immunity doesn’t exist”.
Source: Instagram, Laura Elizabeth, 2021-04-24 -
UnsupportedInsufficient evidence to claim COVID-19 vaccines cause menstrual irregularities in vaccinated women; vaccinated people aren’t making unvaccinated people ill
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COVID-19 vaccines cause menstrual problems in women; vaccinated people are causing health problems in unvaccinated people around them
Source: Instagram, Twitter/X, Facebook, Social media users, Christiane Northrup, 2021-04-11 -
InaccurateFlawed speculative study incorrectly claims that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines cause neurodegenerative diseases
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“Pfizer [COVID-19] vaccine confirmed to cause neurodegenerative diseases”; “mRNA vaccines […] can integrate into the human genome”
Source: National File, Nathaniel Linderman, 2021-04-22 -
InaccurateBiden’s climate plan doesn’t say anything about limiting meat consumption, contrary to Daily Mail, Fox News claim
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Biden’s climate plan limits meat consumption by 90%; “Biden's climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH”
Source: Daily Mail, Emily Crane, 2021-04-22 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines don’t cause herpes infections; a possible association with the reactivation of herpes zoster in patients with rheumatic diseases remains unconfirmed
Claim:
“Herpes infections may be a side effect of a COVID-19 vaccine”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, New York Post, Social media users, Jackie Salo, 2021-04-20