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Gout is an inflammatory disease caused by uric acid crystals, not liver dysfunction
Claim:
Gout is “a liver condition”; uric acid crystals “aren’t the cause of gout or the cause of gout’s pain”
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Source: Instagram, Anthony William, 2024-09-04 -
MisleadingUnvaccinated people died of COVID-19 at a higher rate than vaccinated people; vaccines prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths
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How are "Billions of Unvaxxed people with NO Boosters [...] still alive"? Unvaccinated people should be dead.
Source: Facebook, Facebook user, 2024-12-08 -
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IncorrectFolk remedy of placing raw onions on feet to cure illness lacks scientific evidence
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Placing raw onion on the bottom of the feet eliminates illness
Source: Facebook, Social media user, 2023-12-27 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 mRNA vaccines were tested in clinical trials, aren’t experimental
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COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are experimental, “ineffective and harmful”
Source: Facebook, Peter McCullough, Sucharit Bhakdi, Chris Oyakhilome, 2024-04-26 -
MisleadingCharlie Kirk’s video listing reasons to oppose COVID-19 vaccines contains multiple incorrect, misleading, and unsupported statements
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COVID-19 vaccines were “rushed into market”; VAERS shows an “unusual spike in vaccine adverse events”; unvaccinated people aren't a threat to vaccinated people
Source: The Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie Kirk, 2022-10-04 -
MisleadingNo evidence that measles prevents cancer or heart disease, can lead to long-term health problems instead
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Measles prevents cancer, provides long-term health benefits
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2025-02-15 -
How we know vaccines don’t cause autism – and why this belief persists
…his case, and Wakefield’s study had, in fact, been provided £55,000 by the legal aid board for this purpose[1]. Deer’s report eventually prompted the British General Medical Council (GMC) to…
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0.5HighCNN article accurately reports an increased risk of heart attack from cannabis use in young people, but lacks context on difference between absolute and relative risk
…more frequent among young adults (aged 18 to 44) who reported using cannabis within the previous month (incidence of 1.3%) relative to non-users (0.8%). This information was presented in the…
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InaccurateRobert F. Kennedy Jr. misrepresents WHO causality assessment for adverse events following vaccination, wrongly claims it enables cover-up of vaccine deaths
Claim:
[It] is nearly impossible to categorize post-vaccine deaths as vaccine-related
Source: NewsPunch, Children's Health Defense, Baxter Dmitry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2017-07-18