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Study claiming 74% of deaths due to COVID-19 vaccines contains signs of potential biases, uses flawed methodology
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A review of autopsy cases found that 74% of deaths were linked to COVID-19 vaccines
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Source: The Gateway Pundit, Facebook, Jim Hoft, Social media users, 2024-06-23 -
UnsupportedEvidence so far doesn’t indicate an association between COVID-19 vaccines and autoimmune diseases
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COVID-19 vaccination is associated with a higher risk of autoimmune rheumatic diseases
Source: The Megyn Kelly Show, YouTube, Megyn Kelly, 2023-09-06 -
UnsupportedVitamin C supplementation does not prevent viral respiratory infections, such as those caused by coronaviruses, in the general population
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The coronavirus pandemic can be dramatically slowed, or stopped, with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C
Source: Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Health Impact News, Andrew W. Saul, 2020-01-26 -
Flawed reasoningMisinterpretation of VAERS database leads Tucker Carlson to wrongly suggests that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to higher mortality on Fox News
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“3,362 people apparently died after getting the COVID-19 vaccine”; “more people, according to VAERS, have died after getting the [COVID-19] shot [...] than from all the other vaccines”
Source: Fox News, Tucker Carlson, 2021-05-06 -
-1.5Very lowAnalysis of “Earth heading for 'mini ice age' within 15 years”
…couple of weeks ago we made a press release about state-of-the-art climate modelling led by the Met Office (by Sarah Ineson et al., published in Nature Communications) that shows what…
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UnsupportedNo conclusive evidence links consumption of bats with the 2019 coronavirus outbreak
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Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak linked to eating bats
Source: Infowars, The Sun, Daily Star, Gemma Mullin, Paul Joseph Watson, Emma Parker, 2020-01-22 -
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InaccurateVarious childhood vaccines have been tested in saline placebo-controlled randomized trials, contrary to claims by those opposed to vaccination
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“No childhood vaccine has ever been through a double blind placebo controlled trial.”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Social media users, 2024-02-24 -
-2Very lowCommentary in The Australian by Ian Plimer relies on false claims to make its case
Scientists’ Feedback SUMMARY This commentary by Ian Plimer, published by The Australian, criticizes a political leader’s stance on climate change, but makes a number of verifiably false claims about climate…
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Introducing the Climate Science Desk, Science Feedback’s new portal to help journalists verify climate claims
Supported by the Climate Misinformation Grant Program from the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, Science Feedback is launching the Climate Science Desk, an initiative aimed at helping…