Misleading
Misleading Instagram posts use news headlines out of context to imply COVID-19 vaccines increase COVID-19 mortality risk
Claim:
Higher COVID-19 vaccination rates in White people are related to higher COVID-19 death rates
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Source: Instagram, Carl Higbie, David Harris Jr., 2023-08-22 -
0.3NeutralNational Geographic video of starving polar bear should have clarified uncertain link to climate change
…in the media, by experts, already). The only flawed reasoning is the strong IMPLICIT link between climate change and the death of this particular bear in the video. However, the…
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IncorrectNo evidence of ‘giant stump’ in helicopter footage from Antarctica, just a normal rock outcrop
Claim:
Video footage shows giant tree stump in Antarctica that grew when Earth’s climate was different
Source: Threads, 2025-02-17 -
InaccurateNo, COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain bacteria and HIV; the vaccines enhance the body’s ability to respond to pathogens, not reduce it
Claim:
The COVID-19 vaccine contains bacteria and HIV, prevents body from making new white blood cells
Source: Disclosure Hub, Together As One, Anonymous, 2021-11-11 -
Flawed reasoningCO2 can increase plant growth in greenhouses while also negatively affecting ecosystems and human societies
Claim:
CO2 is a plant nutrient...it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.
Source: Natural News, Mike Adams, 2013-06-22 -
UnsupportedVaccines do not cause autism, diabetes or cancer, contrary to Shiv Chopra’s claim
Claim:
All these diseases [...] use [sic] to be rare. Autism use [sic] to be 1 in 10,000. Now it’s 1 in 50. Now, where is it all coming from? Vaccines are doing it.
Source: Natural Nana, Shiv Chopra, 2013-04-07 -
Lacks contextDraft U.S. government report doesn’t conclude that fluoride is harmful at low levels
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“As fluoride goes up [...] IQ goes down in the developing brains of our kids”
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2023-04-17 -
IncorrectInfectious diseases are caused by pathogens, not an unbalanced, acidic cellular environment
Claim:
it is not the pathogens themselves which initiate disease, they only show up because of an acidic, compromised, cell terrain
Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2020-03-25 -
Humans do not have the technology to manipulate hurricanes
…– The paths of North Atlantic hurricanes between 1851 and 2019, as tracked by the National Hurricane Center. HAARP’s site in Alaska, more than 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) from the…
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Lacks contextMost used wind turbine blades go to waste, but their footprint is still relatively small
Claim:
Wind turbine disposal has a large environmental footprint. Turbine blades are made of fiberglass, which does not decompose and cannot be burned.
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2022-11-03