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Scientific evidence shows that COVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the risk of heart attacks, contrary to Russell Brand video
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COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the rise in heart attacks in young people
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Source: YouTube, Russell Brand, 2023-02-27 -
UnsupportedClaim that hydroxychloroquine is an effective early treatment for COVID-19 isn’t supported by evidence from clinical trials
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“The FDA hid the evidence that HCQ [hydroxychloroquine] was effective in the early treatment of the disease. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of this lie.”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Harvey Risch, Jim Hoft, 2022-09-17 -
MisleadingNew CDC data don’t confirm that the Pfizer bivalent booster shot increases the risk of ischemic strokes
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“An increased risk of stroke events has been identified with the Pfizer COVID-19 bivalent vaccine”
Source: The Epoch Times, Yuhong Dong, 2023-02-11 -
MisleadingRebel News article lacks evidence for claiming COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe and unnecessary
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Natural immunity persists for decades; Pregnant women aren’t at risk from COVID-19; DNA plasmids are in COVID-19 vaccines; no evidence that COVID-19 boosters are safe
Source: Rebel News, Tamara Ugolini, 2023-08-29 -
InaccurateUS proposed bills and hearings do not confirm the use of chemtrails, which do not exist and are not a geoengineering strategy
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US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment
Source: Facebook, YouTube, Social media users, 2024-01-12 -
UnsupportedFlawed preprint based on autopsies inadequate to demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccines caused 74% of those deaths
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“Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine”
Source: The Wellness Company, Daily Sceptic, Peter McCullough, Will Jones, 2023-07-06 -
-2Very lowMisleading Wall Street Journal opinion piece makes the unsubstantiated claim that the U.S. will have herd immunity by April 2021
…on the infection fatality rate and the total number of deaths. However, the article underestimated the infection fatality rate. Given a fixed number of deaths, the higher the infection fatality…
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Tony Abbott speech on climate change rehashes misleading, inaccurate talking points
…both the stratosphere and the surface of the Earth, whereas CO2 warms the surface (and the troposphere) but cools the stratosphere. Using radiosondes and (more recently) satellites, we have observed…
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Flawed reasoningEpidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work
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Polio vaccine doesn’t work; India had no cases of non-polio paralysis until polio vaccine was introduced; polio was renamed to hide its existence
Source: Instagram, Jaclyn Simone, 2024-01-23 -
MisleadingClinical trial by Moderna found no safety concerns with the COVID-19 vaccine in toddlers, contrary to claim by Joseph Ladapo
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According to Moderna themselves: Serious adverse events affected 1 in 200 toddlers. But they still concluded the mRNA vaccine was safe in children
Source: Twitter/X, Joseph Ladapo, 2022-10-29