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Report Heartland Institute sent to influence US teachers on climate change earns an “F” from scientists
…between 1.5 or 2.0 °C to 4.5 °C. The warming by 2100 would be larger than this if the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere more than doubles by then. Global…
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Viral video promotes the unsupported hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 is a bioengineered virus released from a Wuhan research laboratory
The video A video published by The Epoch Times@ on 7 April 2020 sparked widespread interest and gathered “70 million views” within weeks of its publication, according to the outlet….
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InaccurateThe CDC licences vaccine technology, but isn’t a vaccine company; the CDC doesn’t sell vaccines, it buys and distributes vaccines free of charge
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“The CDC is not an independent agency. It is a vaccine company […] The CDC owns over 20 vaccine patents. It sells about $4.6 billion of vaccines every year”.
Source: Children's Health Defense, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021-02-19 -
UnsupportedType 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, but evidence so far doesn’t show that diabetes causes Alzheimer’s
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“Alzheimer’s most of the time is preventable. It’s not genetic, and it’s type 3 diabetes, which is insulin resistance of the brain”
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2022-09-29 -
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Pfizer is part of Operation Warp Speed, a partnership to produce and distribute a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, but it developed a vaccine without direct funding from the partnership
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Pfizer is part of Operation Warp Speed; “Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President, [Pfizer] announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90% of its volunteers”
Source: The Federalist, David Marcus, Mike Pence, 2020-11-09 -
No, Bill Gates is not funding COVID-19 vaccines as a way to conduct global surveillance or to depopulate the world
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Bill Gates, founder of harmful vaccination campaigns in developing countries, now plans to use COVID-19 vaccines to surveil the population
Source: The Truth About Cancer, Ty and Charlene Bollinger, 2020-06-13 -
More than 80 fact-checking organizations call on YouTube to tackle misinformation
…an ad running on a climate-denying video. In this case, the ad is run before the video, but Google ads can also be displayed while the video runs, or in…
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MisleadingMedical exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines are granted for contraindications, not including history of blood clots or adverse reaction to prior vaccine
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Medical exemptions are unavailable even for people who “shouldn't get the [COVID-19] vaccine”, including those with a history of blood clotting or an adverse reaction to a prior vaccine
Source: The Dan Bongino Show, Dan Bongino, 2022-12-11