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The long-term survival of polar bears is threatened by loss of sea-ice due to global warming, new study confirms
Claim:
"Global warming is driving polar bears toward extinction"
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Source: The New York Times, Henry Fountain, 2020-07-20 -
-1.8Very lowAnalysis of "2015 Was Not Even Close To Hottest Year On Record"
…blogs when writing in the future. REVIEWERS’ OVERALL FEEDBACK These comments are the overall opinion of scientists on the article, they are substantiated by their knowledge in the field…
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Viral video promotes the unsupported hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 is a bioengineered virus released from a Wuhan research laboratory
…often presented in a misleading way to support the main thesis of the video that the virus came from a Chinese research laboratory. The video argues that the pandemic could…
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InaccurateIn viral Turning Point USA video, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk falsely claim there is no evidence of global warming and scientists don’t know the cause
Claim:
There is no factual data to back up global warming; real scientists don’t know whether CO<sub>2</sub>, solar sunspots or natural activity cause global warming
Source: Turning Point USA, Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, 2021-04-11 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccines protect individuals from developing the disease and are necessary tools to end the pandemic along with physical distancing measures
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There is no reason to get COVID-19 vaccines because vaccinated people can still get sick and are still required to wear masks
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InaccurateJames Thorp spreads false claims that COVID-19 vaccines harm fertility, pregnancy, infant survival in The Sentinel Report interview
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“Americans are dropping dead” from COVID-19 vaccines; vaccines impair fertility, pregnancy, infant survival
Source: The Sentinel Report, James Thorp, 2023-11-01 -
InaccurateJanci Chunn Lindsay’s claims that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe are inaccurate and unsupported by scientific evidence
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines will cause blood clotting, fertility problems, and immune escape
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Janci Chunn Lindsay, 2021-04-23 -
MisleadingCOVID-19 vaccine boosters reduce the risk of infection and hospitalization; they don’t increase the risk, contrary to claims of vaccines’ “negative efficacy”
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A study by Kaiser Permanente “shows negative efficacy of the shots against all variants within 150 days”; “the more you inject, the more you infect”
Source: Conservative Review, Daniel Horowitz, 2022-10-04 -
CorrectComplete vaccine coverage in the U.S. could have prevented almost a quarter of COVID-19 deaths
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“Quarter of U.S. covid deaths were probably preventable with vaccination”
Source: The Washington Post, Philip Bump, 2022-04-21 -
IncorrectCOVID-19 vaccines don’t cause immunodeficiency and aren’t associated with excess mortality
Claim:
“most of the individuals who had been fully vaccinated would develop full-blown vaccine-induced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome by the end of the month”
Source: The Exposé, Anonymous, 2022-01-22