Partially correct
Despite a decline in COVID-19 deaths from a peak in Spring 2020, the number of deaths in July 2020 may not be as low as preliminary data suggest
Claim:
Deaths from COVID-19 are nearing zero in the U.S.
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Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2020-07-08 -
InaccurateHealth authorities encourage the general public to wear face masks to reduce COVID-19 transmission
Claim:
Health authorities like the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discourage people from wearing face masks
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-06-14 -
InaccurateListicle of “facts” about COVID-19 contains numerous inaccurate and misleading claims
Claim:
“The overall lethality of [COVID-19] (IFR) is about 0.1% to 0.3% and thus in the range of a severe influenza”
Source: Swiss Policy Research, Anonymous, 2020-03-14 -
InaccurateMore deaths occurred in 2020 than in previous years; Johns Hopkins student article compared proportion of deaths per age group, which can obscure changes in raw numbers
Claim:
“Johns Hopkins study mysteriously disappears after it revealed, in spite of COVID, no more deaths in 2020 than in prior years”
Source: Gateway Pundit, LifeSite News, Joe Hoft, Michael Haynes, 2020-11-27 -
MisleadingClip of Anthony Fauci discussing potential vaccine safety concerns is from March 2020; current scientific evidence shows COVID-19 vaccines reduce risk of infection and serious illness
Claim:
“Dr. Fauci opens up the possibility that the COVID-19 vaccine could be making people more likely to be infected by the virus”, “a vaccine that looked good in initial safety actually made people worse”
Source: Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, TikTok, Social media users, 2021-12-13 -
-2Very lowAnalysis of "Why are climate-change models so flawed? Because climate science is so incomplete"
…outcome of a flipped coin are 1 in 2, but your odds of guessing correctly twice in a row are only 1 in 4 — i.e., ½ x ½ Extending…
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Flawed reasoningCO2 is a greenhouse gas that caused warming during past climate changes, notably as a feedback amplifying other factors
Claim:
Increases in atmospheric CO2 followed increases in temperature. Therefore, CO2 levels could not have forced temperatures to rise.
Source: Heartland Institute, Craig Idso, Fred Singer, Robert Carter, 2025-05-04 -
Flawed reasoningCO2 caused warming during past climate changes, notably as a feedback amplifying other factors
Claim:
CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] temperature always changes first, and CO2 follows
Source: Ice Age Now, Robert W. Felix, William Happer, 2017-02-19 -
InaccurateSimple measurements demonstrate that CO2 is a greenhouse gas contrary to claim in online blogs
Claim:
CO2 is not a greenhouse gas.
Source: Technocracy.news, Tim Ball, 2018-09-13 -
InaccurateA rise in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths starting in September 2020 contradicts the claim by Michael Yeadon that “the pandemic is fundamentally over in the U.K.”
Claim:
“the pandemic is fundamentally over in the U.K.”; “We now know that loads of people had prior immunity [...] I believe we are now firmly at community immunity.”; “Viruses don’t do waves.”
Source: talkRADIO, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Michael Yeadon, 2020-11-05