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Claim that the antiviral drug remdesivir is killing people is baseless
Claim:
“Remdesivir is proven to kill lives”
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Source: TikTok, Facebook, Bryan Ardis, 2021-03-22 -
InaccurateSome extreme weather events are clearly becoming more common, in contrast to Lord Lawson's claim
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The IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sort of the voice of the consensus, concedes that there has been no increase in extreme weather events.
Source: BBC, Nigel Lawson, 2017-08-10 -
What do we know about the safety of titanium dioxide in menstrual hygiene products?
Introduction Social media posts claiming that titanium dioxide in tampons are responsible for reproductive cancers began circulating in early August 2022. One notable example is this TikTok video by user…
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MisleadingThe amount of potassium chloride in Dasani bottled water is safe and won’t cause cardiac arrest
Claim:
“Potassium chloride actually causes cardiac arrest […] and we’re drinking it in Dasani water.”
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2022-09-16 -
Flawed reasoningEngland mortality data shows a lower COVID-19 mortality risk among vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated ones, contrary to claim by Slay News
Claim:
“the Covid injections are not effective” because the large majority of deaths involving COVID-19 occurred among vaccinated individuals
Source: Slay News, Frank Bergman, 2023-08-06 -
Natural gas may be cleaner than coal, but it isn’t cleaner than nuclear or renewable energy
…that gas is a “clean-burning fuel”. The claim shares a video posted by the CO2 Coalition, a nonprofit known to receive funding from and share personnel with the fossil fuel…
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1.4HighNew York Times’ “straightforward answers” to common climate questions are accurate, too
…on the article, they are substantiated by their knowledge in the field and by the content of the analysis in the annotations on the article. Ted Letcher Research Scientist, Cold…
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Flawed reasoningVaccines are useful even when there is a treatment for a disease, contrary to claim by Lee Merritt in The New American video
Claim:
“We have vaccines because we didn't have treatment for smallpox and it was a very deadly disease that made sense to have a vaccine. [...] but [COVID-19]? Even without doing anything, this disease has a 99.991[%] chance of survival.”
Source: The New American, Lee Merritt, 2021-01-15 -
UnsupportedNeurological adverse events are very rare after COVID-19 vaccination and less frequent than after SARS-CoV-2 infection
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A study shows that “COVID vaccines could be causing ‘long-term brain damage’”
Source: Leading Report, Anonymous, 2023-05-10 -
UnsupportedIngredients in bird flu vaccine Audenz are safe in the amounts present; no evidence that they’re toxic or cause cancer
Claim:
Bird flu vaccine contains dog DNA and other ingredients that are toxic or carcinogenic
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-01-01