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Folk remedy of placing raw onions on feet to cure illness lacks scientific evidence
Claim:
Placing raw onion on the bottom of the feet eliminates illness
Search results for: "Emotion-focused family therapy (EFFT) lafrance"
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Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2023-12-27 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 treatments can improve a patient’s survival and recovery, but don’t replace the individual and community benefits of vaccination
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“Now the vaccines are no longer working“; “the vaccine never stopped transmission“; “earlier-vaccinated people experience a complete waning of the injection-induced antibodies”; antibody therapy, “the one option that works”, is blocked by the government
Source: The Blaze, Daniel Horowitz, 2021-09-13 -
Flawed reasoningThe scientific evidence shows that COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk of infection and mortality; analysis of cases and deaths from 145 countries is methodologically flawed
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“New big data study of 145 countries show COVID vaccines makes things worse (cases and deaths)“
Source: Substack, Steve Kirsch, 2022-01-09 -
InaccurateInaccurate clickbait headline in Forbes article used to promote the false claim that COVID-19 vaccines change our DNA
Claim:
Forbes article is evidence that COVID-19 vaccines change our DNA
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Social media users, 2021-11-30 -
InaccurateKaposi’s sarcoma is an opportunistic cancer that occurs in advanced AIDS patients; it’s not caused by poppers
Claim:
Poppers are the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma
Source: Facebook, Robert Willner, 2023-03-31 -
Leucovorin might help some kids with autism, but it’s no silver bullet
…declared leucovorin “an exciting therapy that may benefit large numbers of children who suffer from autism”. Reflecting Secretary Kennedy’s announcement, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved to begin…
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A trypsin-based oral spray reportedly deactivates SARS-CoV-2 in a liquid suspension but has not yet been tested in the mouth
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New oral spray “deactivates 98% of the coronavirus” in the mouth
Source: Facebook, Hashem Al-Ghaili, 2020-07-20 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines don’t weaken the immune system; Lancet study misrepresented in Virology Journal comment
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Lancet study showed that vaccinated people have lower immune function than unvaccinated people; COVID-19 vaccines suppress the immune system
Source: The Hodgetwins, Fox News, Kenji Yamamoto, Tucker Carlson, 2022-07-21 -
UnsupportedPreclinical studies cannot provide sufficient evidence that ivermectin helps treat cancer in people
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Cancer patients should use ivermectin to treat cancer, as it augments the effect of cancer therapies
Source: Brio-Medical Cancer Center, Walter Kim, 2024-06-29 -
-1.7Very lowDaily Wire article misunderstands study on carbon budget (along with Fox News, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Breitbart…)
…“hiatus” nor a slow-down in global warming post 2000, but is instead focused on estimating the remaining carbon budget compatible with remaining below the 1.5 ºC target set by the…