Misleading
VAERS reports may initiate investigations into potential associations between a vaccine and adverse events, but on their own cannot prove causality
Claim:
Post-vaccination deaths reported to VAERS are caused by the vaccine
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Source: TrialSite News, Ron Paul, Steve Deace, Charlie Kirk, 2021-07-21 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines approved for emergency use prevent the disease and are generally safe based on rigorous clinical trials and ongoing monitoring
Claim:
“No one can possibly know if the [COVID-19] vaccine is safe and effective because the trial is still underway; “Thousands of people who had the vaccine have died or been seriously injured by it”
Source: Charlie Ward, Vernon Coleman, 2021-02-02 -
InaccuratePfizer didn’t release a list of COVID-19 vaccine side effects in 2025, contrary to allegations on social media
Claim:
“Pfizer just released a few days ago the side effects of the jab” ; this lists contains more than forty medical conditions that are side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-02 -
UnsupportedStudy on vaccinated and unvaccinated children used a dubious metric for comparing disease incidence in both groups
Claim:
“vaccinated children appear to be significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Collective Evolution, James Lyons-Weiler, Paul Thomas, 2020-11-22 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines were tested in animals and clinical trials before receiving authorization; vaccinated people aren’t dying at a higher rate than unvaccinated people
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines skipped animal testing; COVID-19 vaccines weren’t tested in humans before being released to the public; COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe
Source: Facebook, YouTube, Angelina Farella, Bob Hall, 2021-05-06 -
UnsupportedMore research needed to determine if vitamin D helps treat fibroids
Claim:
“Number 1 vitamin to help shrink fibroids” is vitamin D
Source: TikTok, Social media users, Eric Berg, 2024-05-24 -
Despite Community Notes, most content reviewed by fact-checkers in Europe goes unaddressed on X/Twitter
…which specialized organizations assess the factual accuracy of a claim. The Elections 24 check database In the run-up to and the aftermath of the 2024 European Parliament election, the European…
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UnsupportedNo evidence to show that infrasound from wind turbines is harmful to human health
Claim:
Wind turbines emit infrasound that is harmful to human health.
Source: The Highwire, Tracy Beanz, Michelle Edwards, 2024-11-19 -
UnsupportedCOVID-19 vaccines don’t increase the incidence of poor outcomes during pregnancy, according to current safety data on COVID-19 vaccines
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines caused miscarriages
Source: Twitter/X, Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-02-06 -
Male sterility isn’t a proven side effect of ivermectin, contrary to claims by social media users
Claim:
Ivermectin sterilizes the majority (85%) of men that take it
Source: Twitter/X, Facebook, Twitter users, Facebook users, 2021-09-05