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Vaccines do not cause neurological damage, aluminum levels in vaccines are safe
Claim:
Aluminum in vaccines causes neurological damage and autism
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Source: Collective Evolution, Arjun Walia, Facebook user, 2020-02-19 -
InaccuratePregnant women can decide whether to receive the COVID-19 vaccine; safety monitoring suggests that COVID-19 vaccines don’t pose any specific risk for pregnant women
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“Health officials push pregnant women to get covid shots, despite known risks”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Anonymous, 2021-02-23 -
InaccurateChildhood vaccines are an important protection against preventable diseases, not “poison” as claimed by Candace Owens
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Doctors are ‘injecting poison’ into babies every two months.
Source: Twitter, Candace Owens, 2024-02-12 -
AccurateThe COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech is comprised of ingredients standard in many vaccines, including mRNA, lipids, sucrose, and salts
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The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine contains mRNA encoding the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, lipids, sucrose, and salts.
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-12-10 -
IncorrectInstagram reel rehashes old misinformation inaccurately linking autism with vaccines, glyphosate, and MTHFR mutations
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Vaccines, MTHFR mutation, and glyphosate lead to autism in children with brain injury
Source: Instagram, Nathan Riley, 2023-11-19 -
How we know vaccines don’t cause autism – and why this belief persists
…to reveal any link between MMR and any form of autism. Anti-vaccine groups have put forward several hypotheses to explain how vaccines could cause autism. One of the vaccine ingredients…
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InaccurateNo, an “FDA study” did not find that vaccines contain cancer-causing viruses
Claim:
The FDA study looked at vaccines that are made from living cells [...] oftentimes contaminated with hidden viral fragments which have the potential to cause cancer.
Source: Activist Post, Principia Scientific, Aaron Kesel, 2019-11-23 -
IncorrectPreventing deaths isn’t the sole benefit of COVID-19 vaccination, contrary to Epoch Times article
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“An accurate reporting by Pfizer would have shown equal numbers of clinical trial deaths in the vaccine and placebo groups and thus, no benefit of vaccination”
Source: The Epoch Times, Megan Redshaw, 2023-10-21 -
IncorrectThe level of aluminum in childhood vaccines is safe, even for babies
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Per FDA guidelines, babies are too small to safely handle the amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-18 -
InaccurateThe current U.S. generation is healthier than previous ones partly because vaccines reduced infectious diseases; childhood immunization schedules are safe, contrary to chiropractor’s claims
Claim:
“look at the [vaccination] schedule, we have gotten sicker and sicker”; “the biggest jump in shots came after the 1986 vaccine protection act”
Source: Facebook, Patrick Flynn, 2021-04-06