Inaccurate
Water fluoridation hasn’t been associated with cognitive or other health problems so far, contrary to widespread claims
Claim:
“Harvard Study Confirms: Fluoride Reduces Children’s IQ”
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Source: Herbs Health and Happiness, Anonymous, Social media users, 2022-09-21 -
Lacks contextWide Awake Media repeats misleading claims that wind turbines are expensive and environmentally unfriendly
Claim:
Building a single wind turbine requires a jaw-dropping quantity of energy and resources. Wind turbines are expensive, inefficient, bird-, and bat-slaying.
Source: X/Twitter, Wide Awake Media, 2025-07-18 -
MisleadingLow amounts of fluoride added to community water not associated with neurotoxicity, contrary to online claims
Claim:
Fluoride is a neurotoxin; community water fluoridation is associated with lower IQ in children
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-10-19 -
MisleadingPossible increases in cancer rates and lower life expectancy in 2021 are primarily driven by effects of COVID-19, not vaccination
Claim:
“Cancer rates have increased since the introduction of the COVID-19 shots”, which “is driving down U.S. life expectancy”
Source: Children's Health Defense, Joseph Mercola, 2023-01-06 -
UnsupportedMel Gibson makes baseless claim on Joe Rogan’s podcast that dewormers ivermectin and fenbendazole are effective cancer cures
Claim:
Ivermectin, fenbendazole have been used to cure stage four cancer
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson, 2025-01-09 -
InaccuratePCR tests on vaccinated and unvaccinated people are evaluated using the same criteria; the CDC didn’t change criteria for detecting infection in vaccinated people, as alleged in OffGuardian article
Claim:
The U.S. CDC is “lowering their CT value when testing samples from suspected ‘breakthrough infections’” to decrease the number of officially recorded cases
Source: Zero Hedge, Gateway Pundit, OffGuardian, Kit Knightly, 2021-05-18 -
InaccurateNOAA shows clear global warming trends over the past 58 years based on radiosonde data
Claim:
“The 58 year net gain of global temperature is zero. We are simply in a cyclical, normal ebb and flow of temperature.”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2021-01-29 -
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IncorrectScientific studies established clear links between human-caused increased in atmospheric CO2 and global warming
Claim:
“It’s a good thing that we are putting some more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The scientific method has not been applied in such a way as to prove that carbon dioxide is causing the Earth to warm.”
Source: Instagram, Patrick Moore, 2020-12-16 -
Lacks contextSome evidence that wind turbines can harm eagles, but more are killed by other causes
Claim:
Windmills are a threat to eagles’ population.
Source: X/Twitter, Instagram, Social media users, 2025-01-16