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The amount of potassium chloride in Dasani bottled water is safe and won’t cause cardiac arrest
Claim:
“Potassium chloride actually causes cardiac arrest […] and we’re drinking it in Dasani water.”
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Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2022-09-16 -
Mostly accurateLong-term remission of an HIV patient who received a stem cell transplant is the closest so far to a full HIV cure
Claim:
The second person ever has been cured from HIV
Source: BBC, IFLScience, Michelle Roberts, Tom Hale, 2020-03-10 -
InaccuratemRNA vaccines against COVID-19 don’t modify humans, and don’t make them patentable or owned by any entities
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“if a human is injected with a GMO it becomes a patented piece of property from the government”, “they take away all your rights with mRNAs”
Source: TikTok, Instagram, Instagram users, 2022-11-14 -
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Misleading U.S. Department of Energy climate report chooses bias over science, climate scientists say
…press release on 25 July 2025: “If finalized, the proposal would repeal all resulting greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines”. The EPA cited the DOE report as…
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Can HPV infection be treated? Here are the facts
…worrisome and really deserves aggressive follow-up”. One would be “hard-pressed”, she thought, to consider these different groups as equivalent to each other. “I think it’s just really messy and it…
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Analysis of "…in many ways global warming will be a good thing"
…coverage on the facts rather than on the viewpoints of a marginal pressure group. Misrepresenting someone’s position to make it easier to attack is known as a straw man fallacy….
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MisleadingVery rare cases of blood clots linked to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are well-known and have been publicly recognized since 2021
Claim:
AstraZeneca admits for the first time that its COVID-19 vaccine can cause blood clots
Source: The Blaze, The Independent, The Washington Times, Liz Wheeler, Dan Bongino, 2024-04-28 -
IncorrectScientific evidence supports the use of face masks for reducing the transmission of respiratory diseases including COVID-19
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Masks do nothing to prevent the spread of pathogens
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-05-17 -
InaccuratePosts misrepresent CDC risk assessment of new SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86; COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of infection
Claim:
With the new BA.2.86 variant, “We’re in a situation where vaccination, according to the CDC, increases the likelihood of infection”
Source: YouTube, John Campbell, 2023-08-29