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Contrary to popular claim on social media, RNA vaccines do not alter our DNA
Claim:
“Bill Gates explains that the COVID vaccine will use experimental technology and permanently alter your DNA”
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Source: Waking Times, Facebook users, Alex Pietrowski, 2020-05-15 -
UnsupportedMamavation report doesn’t provide sufficient evidence for the claim that Band-Aids contain “cancer-causing forever chemicals”
Claim:
Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in Band Aids
Source: TikTok, Social media users, 2024-04-03 -
-2Very lowAnalysis of “Updated NASA Data: Global Warming Not Causing Any Polar Ice Retreat”
…increases that are dependent on the time of year, but in contrast to the Arctic, these increases are not for all sea ice regions and they do not happen in…
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Partially correctClaim that virus contaminating polio vaccine between 1955 and 1963 is cancer-causing not supported by science
Claim:
CDC Admits 98 Million Americans Received Polio Vaccine In An 8-Year Span When It Was Contaminated With Cancer Virus
Source: Waking Times, Dave Mihalovic, 2013-07-17 -
InaccurateImpossible Whopper contains no estrogen; will not lead to men growing breasts if eaten in moderation
Claim:
The Impossible Whopper has 44 mg of estrogen and the whopper has 2.5 ng of estrogen
Source: Tri-State Livestock News, James Stanger, 2019-12-20 -
Misinformation superspreaders are thriving on Musk-owned Twitter
…low-credibility and high-credibility accounts between 1 Sep. and 31 Dec. 2022. We collected all tweets published by accounts in both low- and high-credibility lists between 1 Sep. and 31 Dec….
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Mostly inaccurateViral video mixes truth about COVID-19 with a long list of ineffective treatments and preventions
Claim:
Coronavirus does not cause a runny nose; is killed by temperatures above 26 degrees; causes lung fibrosis within days of infection; can be diagnosed by holding your breath for 10 seconds; and can be cured in the early stages by drinking plenty of water.
Source: Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life, Steven Aitchison, 2020-03-21 -
InaccurateA rise in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths starting in September 2020 contradicts the claim by Michael Yeadon that “the pandemic is fundamentally over in the U.K.”
Claim:
“the pandemic is fundamentally over in the U.K.”; “We now know that loads of people had prior immunity [...] I believe we are now firmly at community immunity.”; “Viruses don’t do waves.”
Source: talkRADIO, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Michael Yeadon, 2020-11-05 -
Do renewables increase the price of electricity? Not necessarily
…by about 1.40€. The study estimated that in 2030, assuming that European countries realized their plans to increase their proportions of wind and solar power a 1€ increase in the…
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InaccurateYouTube video falsely claims that climate models systematically over-estimated warming and that we are heading towards an ice age
Claim:
"The official observed temperatures are coming consistently below the scary global warming numbers"; "Melting polar ice triggers ice age"
Source: Suspicious0bservers, Ben Davidson, 2021-05-05