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Thermograms and breast self-exams aren’t adequate substitutes for mammograms
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Breast self-examinations and thermograms are adequate mammogram substitutes
Search results for: "karachi density map"
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Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-10-01 -
IncorrectPopulation aging, not margarine or a low-cholesterol diet, is behind the rise in Alzheimer’s
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75% of the brain is myelin, which is 100% cholesterol; “Alzheimer’s never existed until 1979”; in the 1970s, animal fats in margarine were replaced with low-cholesterol vegetable oils
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2024-10-04 -
IncorrectConspiracy theorists claim that 5G increases vulnerability to COVID-19 with baseless theory that it affects hemoglobin
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Coronavirus pandemic would likely not be nearly as bad if 5G exposure/radiation pollution wasn’t already compromising the structure and function of hemoglobin cells.
Source: Natural News, Mike Adams, 2020-04-06 -
InaccurateMargarine and plastic are chemically unrelated substances, contrary to persistent online claim
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“Margarine is one molecule away from plastic”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Social media users, 2024-11-19 -
-1.8Very lowVideo promoted by John Stossel for Earth Day relies on incorrect and misleading claims about climate change
…As Patrick Brown, assistant professor at San Jose State University, and Kristie Ebi, professor at the University of Washington, describe below, higher CO2 concentrations also reduce the nutrient density of…
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Yes, plants need carbon dioxide. No, that doesn’t mean it’s harmless.
…would be even warmer than it is if not for the surge in plant growth.”[3] Figure 1 – Map shows the “greening” trend across much of the globe between 2000-2018….
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IncorrectHow we know Earth is round, not flat: a review of claims and misconceptions about Earth’s shape
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Observations show that the Earth is flat.
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2024-12-03 -
InaccurateThe Earth is a sphere that rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun, contrary to Flat Earth video
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“The Earth is not a globe. The Earth is stationary.”
Source: Flat Earth, Amber Plaster, 2020-11-17 -
InaccurateSocial media posts wrongly claim that herbs can cure every disease including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s
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“There is a cure to every d!isease”; herbs can cure cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2023-11-06 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 RNA vaccines are safe, cannot modify human DNA; death rate in vaccinated people isn’t higher than in unvaccinated people
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“The protein then can bind to your DNA and irreversibly change it”; “[It] has several different type of lipids on it that have never been injected into human beings before”; “We could be looking at right now as many as 12,000 deaths”
Source: Daystar, Sherri Tenpenny, 2021-03-11