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Cancer is caused by mutations, not the body’s acidity; eating alkaline foods can’t alter the body’s pH to prevent or treat cancer
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Cancer occurs when “your body is full of acidity”; alkalizing your body prevents cancer
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-1.4Very lowBreitbart article on California fires misleads by omitting explanation of climate’s influence
…have shown that the fire season in the southwest USA has lengthened considerably and (ii) generally agree that climate warming increases the probability of the occurrence of large fires in…
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IncorrectSome studies suggest nutritional deficiencies may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but they aren’t the sole cause as social media post claims
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Alzheimer’s disease is a “physician-caused disease” that arises due to nutritional deficiencies
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What do we know about the safety of COVID-19 vaccine mRNA in breast milk?
Introduction A study by Hanna et al. published in September 2023 reported the presence of mRNA from COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in the breast milk of some lactating women[1]. This study…
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-1.4Very lowAnalysis of "James Lovelock: ‘Before the end of this century, robots will have taken over’"
…James Lovelock makes a number of misleading, unsupported, or outright incorrect statements about climate science which largely go unchallenged. While the article presumably faithfully reports Lovelock’s opinions, when those opinions…
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Demonetization of climate change misinformation on Youtube: a quick check on the implementation of Google Ads’ new policy
…that claimed to “destroy” climate science “in 8 minutes.” This list is of limited size, so we do not attempt to draw general statistics from it. However, the sample is…
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-2Very lowAnalysis of “Wake up, Obama, climate change has been happening forever”
…that the risk of large changes in climate is very high. Undoubtedly, natural variability means that there will be cooler trends that interrupt the general warming, but it also means…
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IncorrectThe COVID-19 vaccines protect people from severe COVID-19 and don’t weaken the immune system
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“Worldwide Data suggests Fully Vaccinated [people] are developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome”
Source: The Exposé, Anonymous, 2022-01-22