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Little clinical evidence supports the use of high-dose intravenous vitamin C to treat cancer
Claim:
Intravenous vitamin C specifically kills only cancer cells and not healthy cells
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Source: TikTok, Facebook, Social media users, 2022-08-21 -
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MisleadingClimate change is one factor affecting how fires in Australia burn, regardless of whether arsonists or lightning started them
Claim:
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'
Source: Breitbart, NewsPunch, Thomas D. Williams, Paul Joseph Watson, Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 2020-01-05 -
UnsupportedNo evidence for chiropractor Bryan Ardis’ claim that nicotine cures Parkinson’s and other diseases
Claim:
Nicotine cures Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, ulcerative colitis, and multiple sclerosis; nicotine is a treatment for autism
Source: TikTok, Human Garage, Bryan Ardis, 2025-03-10 -
MisleadingLED lights aren’t a cause of cataracts and don’t cause migraines for most people, contrary to social media claims
Claim:
LEDs cause headaches and migraines; LEDs are the major cause of cataracts
Source: Facebook, Matt Roeske, 2024-09-14 -
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: GreenMedInfo, nakim.org, Children's Health Defense, Haim Yativ, 2021-02-15 -
Misleading“VAIDS” is not a real medical condition; causes of post-vaccination syndrome require more research
Claim:
Yale study found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause “vaccine-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome” (VAIDS) and post-vaccination syndrome (PVS)
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Liz Wheeler, 2025-02-22 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that lemon balm is a cure for bird flu, contrary to claim by Bryan Ardis
Claim:
“It’s already been proven that lemon balm [...] neutralizes and destroys all avian flu”, including H5N1
Source: Facebook, TikTok, The Dr Ardis Show, Bryan Ardis, 2024-11-03 -
InaccurateNo causal association between the DTaP vaccine and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
Claim:
The DTaP vaccine causes SIDS
Source: Raising Natural Children, Dawn Lorenz, 2019-12-09 -
Flawed reasoning
CO2 is a greenhouse gas that caused warming during past climate changes, notably as a feedback amplifying other factors
Claim:
Increases in atmospheric CO2 followed increases in temperature. Therefore, CO2 levels could not have forced temperatures to rise.
Source: Heartland Institute, Craig Idso, Fred Singer, Robert Carter, 2026-05-09