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Video by John Campbell comparing historical and COVID-19 vaccines misleads on vaccine safety
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A study showed that the number of serious adverse vaccine events associated with COVID-19 vaccines is “too high”
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Source: YouTube, John Campbell, 2022-12-31 -
Flawed reasoningScientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan
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“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan, 2022-10-02 -
-1LowArticle by Michael Shellenberger mixes accurate and inaccurate claims in support of a misleading and overly simplistic argumentation about climate change
…dangerous, fires in Australia and California.” Although global burned area declined ~25% from 1998-2015, this is driven in part by non-climatic factors, such as clearing land for agriculture[15,16]. By conflating…
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MisleadingEarth was hotter in the past, but that doesn’t make humans safer from modern climate change
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It is not too hot now. Temperatures and CO2 are lower now than they have been throughout nearly the entire history of the Earth.
Source: X/Twitter, Wide Awake Media, Patrick Moore, 2025-01-07 -
UnsupportedThere is no evidence that dietary supplements containing zinc and a zinc ionophore, such as the one promoted by Vladimir Zelenko, are effective against COVID-19
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Zinc supplements can protect against COVID-19; Zinc “kills the virus” and zinc ionophores are a “a zinc delivery system” that “allows zinc to go from outside the cell to inside the cell”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Vladimir Zelenko, 2021-01-06 -
Wind turbines can kill birds, but not as many as fossil fuels and other anthropogenic impacts
…in the past, covered the impacts of wind energy on eagles, linking to a video that shows one of these birds suffering a severed wing. The video was retweeted by…
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InaccurateStudies show flu vaccine reduces risk of flu-related illness and hospitalization; benefits of flu vaccine outweigh its risks
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Flu shots don’t work, increase your risk of getting the flu, damage your immunity and nervous system
Source: Facebook, Silicon Valley Health Institute, Raymond Francis, 2017-11-16 -
Computing Forever interview with Dolores Cahill contains numerous inaccuracies about COVID-19 and vaccines
This video, first published on 11 May 2020, features an interview between Dave Cullen, also known as Computing Forever on YouTube, and Dolores Cahill, a professor at University College Dublin…
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InaccurateIn viral Turning Point USA video, Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk falsely claim there is no evidence of global warming and scientists don’t know the cause
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There is no factual data to back up global warming; real scientists don’t know whether CO<sub>2</sub>, solar sunspots or natural activity cause global warming
Source: Turning Point USA, Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, 2021-04-11 -
Who’s afraid of the electric car? The Narrative War Delaying Climate Action in Europe
…The study was conducted with the support of the European Climate Foundation and the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN). Read the full report here. The analysis, which covers Spain, France,…