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Are AirPods and other wireless communication devices harmful, as claimed on social media? A look at the evidence
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AirPods emit dangerous levels of radiation that harm the body
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Source: Instagram, Paul Saladino, 2024-02-25 -
MisleadingFlawed analysis by Peter McCullough and others used to promote baseless claim that brain blood clots “112,000% more likely” after COVID-19 vaccine than flu vaccine
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Brain blood clots are 112,000% more likely to occur after COVID-19 vaccine than after the flu vaccine
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Flawed reasoningCountry-to-country comparison doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, contrary to Facebook post by journalist Sharyl Attkisson
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“As more people got vaccinated for Covid, more people got Covid.”
Source: Facebook, Sharyl Attkisson, 2024-04-01 -
UnsupportedAlleged spikes in medical conditions among the military after COVID-19 vaccine rollout are based on faulty data due to a database glitch
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In 2021, cases of pregnancy and fertility issues, cancer, neurological issues, and heart disease spiked after COVID-19 vaccination
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Rumble, Thomas Renz, 2022-01-24 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines don’t hamper the function of the immune system and are likely to limit the generation of variants; no evidence that they produce more lethal variants
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COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous; they cause an overreaction of the immune system; they suppress the NK cells of the immune system; they promote virus lethality
Source: BrandNewTube, Vernon Coleman, 2021-03-13 -
UnsupportedDozens of clinical trials ongoing to investigate whether vitamin D prevents COVID-19; no firm evidence yet
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“Vitamin D insufficiency [...] may account for the majority of COVID-19 deaths”
Source: Instagram, Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-11-30 -
Cutting emissions today limits future climate impacts, but certain changes are ‘locked in’ due to past CO2 emissions
…in our atmosphere for thousands of years[4]. In a PNAS paper on climate change irreversibility, the authors explain: “climate change that takes place due to increases in carbon dioxide concentration…
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-1LowArticle in The Guardian misleads readers about sensitivity of climate models by narrowly focusing on single study
…always been quite uncertain, and the high values in the new models are within the range previously thought possible, although relatively unlikely. A value of around 5°C in some of…
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UnsupportedMore research needed to determine if vitamin D helps treat fibroids
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“Number 1 vitamin to help shrink fibroids” is vitamin D
Source: TikTok, Eric Berg, Social media users, 2024-05-24 -
IncorrectSolar forcing is not the main cause of current global warming, contrary to claim by Alex Newman in the Epoch Times
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The Sun and not human emissions of carbon dioxide may be the main cause of warmer temperatures in recent decades. There is a systemic bias in UN IPCC's data selection.
Source: Newsmax, The Epoch Times, The Western Journal, Alex Newman, 2021-08-16