Misleading
Aluminum-based adjuvants in vaccines are safe, contrary to claims based on mouse study
Claim:
'Mice study that showed aluminium in vaccines causes cognitive deficits & possible cause of Parkinson’s & Alzheimer’s disease'
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Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2025-01-31 -
Following the misinformation URL trail to identify key spreaders: A case study on Twitter
…one misinformation tweet per day. However, this account has only 112 followers. Keep in mind that this number only includes the flagged URLs that are present in the Open Feedback…
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Incorrect2°C is not known to be a "point of no return", as Jonathan Franzen claims
Claim:
The consensus among scientists and policy-makers is that we’ll pass this point of no return if the global mean temperature rises by more than two degrees Celsius
Source: The New Yorker, Jonathan Franzen, 2019-09-08 -
IncorrectPathogens can evolve to be more virulent over time, contrary to nutritionist’s claim
Claim:
“Pathogens evolve to become less, not more, virulent over time”
Source: Facebook, Mike Mutzel, 2021-11-28 -
MisleadingNo evidence that measles prevents cancer or heart disease, can lead to long-term health problems instead
Claim:
Measles prevents cancer, provides long-term health benefits
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2025-02-15 -
Flawed reasoningData from Israel showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces the likelihood of dying from COVID-19; analysis in a forum post claiming the opposite is flawed
Claim:
“the Pfizer vaccines, for the elderly, killed during the 5-week vaccination period about 40 times more people than the disease itself would have killed”
Source: Children's Health Defense, GreenMedInfo, nakim.org, Haim Yativ, 2021-02-15 -
LowClaims that people were being killed by zidovudine (AZT) instead of AIDS are unsubstantiated
…a number of strategies, keeping the virus responsible for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) from making countless copies of itself. This is critical, since if HIV is left to replicate…
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-2Very lowAnalysis of “Wake up, Obama, climate change has been happening forever”
…fact is that global temperatures keep rising, and the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has reached a level that is unsurpassed during the time human civilization has existed. We…
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IncorrectThe COVID-19 vaccines protect people from severe COVID-19 and don’t weaken the immune system
Claim:
“Worldwide Data suggests Fully Vaccinated [people] are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome”
Source: The Exposé, Anonymous, 2022-01-22 -
MisleadingStudy calls for people to grow their own food for many years to come, despite finding higher carbon footprint compared to conventional agriculture
Claim:
Study and headline saying homegrown food is more carbon intensive than conventional agriculture is meant to discourage and stop people from growing their own food
Source: Facebook, The Atlas Society, Social media users, 2024-01-26