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Uncertainties about future climate change in the 1970’s does not invalidate today’s evidence on the reality of global warming
Claim:
Scientists predicted global cooling and were wrong, so they are wrong about global warming
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Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2023-12-09 -
-1.8Very lowWall Street Journal commentary grossly misleads readers about science of sea level rise
…water or ice) between the oceans and continents: Figure – Global sea‐level budget from 1961 to 2008. (left) The observed sea level using coastal and island tide gauges (solid black…
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InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission and don’t increase mortality, contrary James Thorp’s claim
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines are “an unqualified disaster”; they didn’t “[halt] viral spread” and they caused “high morbidity and mortality rates”
Source: The Wellness Company, James Thorp, 2023-12-13 -
UnsupportedNeurological adverse events are very rare after COVID-19 vaccination and less frequent than after SARS-CoV-2 infection
Claim:
A study shows that “COVID vaccines could be causing ‘long-term brain damage’”
Source: Leading Report, Anonymous, 2023-05-10 -
IncorrectDead things transform into fossil fuels in Earth’s crust over millions of years; no evidence of deeper origins or renewable source
Claim:
Oil and gas are not "fossil fuels"; they are a renewable energy source generated in Earth's deeper interior (i.e., upper mantle)
Source: X/Twitter, Robin Monotti, 2024-05-25 -
UnsupportedClaims that people were being killed by zidovudine (AZT) instead of AIDS are unsubstantiated
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One time in the 80’s-90’s, people died from AZT and not the actual AIDS virus; Anthony Fauci pushed this treatment
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-08-25 -
UnsupportedFlawed preprint based on autopsies inadequate to demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccines caused 74% of those deaths
Claim:
“Lancet Study on Covid Vaccine Autopsies Finds 74% Were Caused by Vaccine”
Source: Daily Sceptic, The Wellness Company, Peter McCullough, Will Jones, 2023-07-06 -
IncorrectPopulation aging, not margarine or a low-cholesterol diet, is behind the rise in Alzheimer’s
Claim:
75% of the brain is myelin, which is 100% cholesterol; “Alzheimer’s never existed until 1979”; in the 1970s, animal fats in margarine were replaced with low-cholesterol vegetable oils
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2024-10-04 -
Flawed reasoningEpidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work
Claim:
Polio vaccine doesn’t work; India had no cases of non-polio paralysis until polio vaccine was introduced; polio was renamed to hide its existence
Source: Instagram, Jaclyn Simone, 2024-01-23 -
UnsupportedAnalysis of alleged Medicare data by Steve Kirsch is flawed and doesn’t show COVID-19 vaccines increase mortality rate
Claim:
“Medicare data shows the COVID vaccines increase your risk of dying”
Source: Substack, Steve Kirsch, 2023-02-26