Inaccurate
“Vitamin B17” is neither a vitamin nor a cancer treatment and can cause cyanide poisoning
Claim:
Vitamin B17 “was banned by the US because of its cancer-killing properties”
Search results for: "The Guardian science reporting evaluation"
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Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2023-03-01 -
InaccurateHeart attack victims shouldn’t use “cough CPR” on themselves, contrary to chain email dating back to 1999
Claim:
Heart attack “victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 1999-06-30 -
MisleadingTennessee House Bill HB1894 isn’t evidence that vaccines are present in food at grocery stores; edible vaccines remain hypothetical for now
Claim:
Researchers have “already perfected the ability to put human vaccines” into certain foods “right now”; grocery vegetables might contain human vaccines
Source: Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Social media users, 2024-02-21 -
InaccurateApproved COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain HIV proteins and don’t cause AIDS, contrary to claim misquoting BBC documentary
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines contain proteins from HIV; “if you have taken the third dose, go and take a test for AIDS, then sue your government”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2023-12-16 -
MisleadingThe American Red Cross doesn’t prevent people vaccinated against COVID-19 from donating blood, contrary to rehashed viral claim
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccine recipients might not be eligible for blood donation
Source: Instagram, Twitter, Social media users, 2024-02-21 -
InaccurateMisuse of drug tests on energy drinks like Red Bull produces false positives; doesn’t demonstrate these drinks contain cocaine and other drugs
Claim:
Red Bull contain cocaine and buprenorphine
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2023-11-06 -
IncorrectBaseless speculations underpin a retracted editorial claiming spontaneous generation of SARS-CoV-2 in skin cells exposed to 5G waves
Claim:
5G generates coronavirus in human skin cells
Source: GreenMedInfo, Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents, Infowars, Alireza Sepehri, Massimo Fioranelli, 2020-07-16 -
IncorrectAddressing false claims that Vitamin K shots have toxic levels of aluminum, Hepatitis B vaccines contain toxic ingredients, and more
Claim:
Vitamin K shots are dangerous because of toxic levels of aluminum; Hepatitis B vaccines contain toxic ingredients
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2023-12-07 -
InaccurateAndrew Tate peddles debunked claim about COVID-19 vaccines being “experimental poison” in Piers Morgan interview
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away
Source: Piers Morgan Uncensored, Andrew Tate, 2026-11-20 -
InaccuratePublic information film on coronavirus allegedly from the 1970s is a parody published in 2020
Claim:
A public information film on the coronavirus was released in the 1970s
Source: YouTube, Social media users, 2020-05-24