Inaccurate
Multiple scientific studies suggest that masking can help limit transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in schools, contrary to claim in Federalist article
Claim:
“There’s no science behind masks on kids”.
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Source: The Federalist, Shawn Fleetwood, 2021-08-24 -
MisleadingViral memes listing COVID-19 topics about which authorities were allegedly “wrong” rehash debunked misinformation
Claim:
We were lied about “COVID-19 numbers”, treatments, natural immunity, and the origin of the virus; COVID-19 vaccines and control measures “didn’t work”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Social media users, 2023-02-28 -
InaccurateCDC analysis of RSV vaccines data showed vaccines are safe, not associated with excess deaths, contrary to claim by Children’s Health Defense
Claim:
RSV vaccines are linked to deaths and neurological disorders; the CDC glossed over reports of deaths among vaccinated individuals
Source: Children's Health Defense, The Defender, Michael Nevradakis, 2024-03-03 -
UnsupportedRising cancers in young adults preceded pandemic, unrelated to COVID-19 or vaccines, contrary to Patrick Soon-Shiong’s claims in Tucker Carlson interview
Claim:
COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines “are likely causing a global epidemic of terrifyingly aggressive cancers”
Source: Tucker Carlson Network, Patrick Soon-Shiong, 2025-03-26 -
MisleadingSix residents in a German nursing home died from COVID-19, not from vaccines
Claim:
“25% of residents in German nursing home died after Pfizer vaccine”; a team including a soldier in uniform used force to vaccinate residents
Source: Children's Health Defense, Anonymous, 2021-03-01 -
InaccurateThe U.S. National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act does not stop people from suing vaccine manufacturers
Claim:
“According to the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, you cannot sue a vaccine manufacturer if the vaccine has harmed and/or killed someone”
Source: Instagram, America's Frontline Doctors, Rizza Islam, 2020-12-15 -
-1.5Very lowViral New York Post article perpetuates the unfounded claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 is manmade
…sold at the Wuhan market, so they could not be the source of infection. The author chooses to imply that these animals are not sold illegally at the market, yet…
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MisleadingPeople can sue manufacturers for injury following routine childhood vaccines, contrary to a claim by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Claim:
“As long as you take an Emergency Use [vaccine], you can’t sue them. Once they get approved, now you can sue them—unless they can get it recommended for children”
Source: The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-12-22 -
InaccurateClaim by Steve Kirsch that the Amish don’t experience autism, cancer, or high COVID-19 mortality because they don’t vaccinate is baseless
Claim:
Zero Amish Children Diagnosed with Cancer, Diabetes or Autism; Amish children are largely unvaccinated; Covid death rates among Amish communities are 90 times lower than for the rest of America
Source: Leading Report, Steve Kirsch, Patrick Webb, 2023-07-09 -
EPA’s Scott Pruitt incorrectly suggests climate change might not be “a bad thing”
Claim:
We know that humans have most flourished during times of, what, warming trends. I think there are assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that is necessarily a bad thing.
Source: KSNV NBC Las Vegas, Scott Pruitt, 2018-02-06