Misleading
No increased risk of miscarriage from COVID-19 vaccines or other safety concerns for pregnant women or their babies
Claim:
'920 Women Lose Their Unborn Babies After Getting Vaccinated'
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Source: Instagram, Shannon Kroner, 2021-06-03 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines aren’t associated with a higher risk of pregnancy complication, contrary to claim by Daniel Horowitz
Claim:
“The shots were not studied in pregnant women”; “we have seen 50 times the rate of reporting [in VAERS] per month of miscarriages for this vaccine than the other vaccines put together.”
Source: The Blaze, Daniel Horowitz, 2022-01-11 -
InaccurateCOVID-19 vaccines not shown to have “negative efficacy”, contrary to claim by Nicolas Hulscher
Claim:
New research from Japan shows COVID-19 vaccines have “negative efficacy”
Source: Substack, Nicolas Hulscher, 2025-01-06 -
MisleadingPrimary COVID-19 transmission is by close contact with infected people; nasopharyngeal swab-based testing provides the highest diagnostic accuracy
Claim:
“Ever wonder why they have to stick a Q-tip through your nose to the back of your head to swab a sample of covid but a droplet of saliva will infect a whole village at one time”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-07-04 -
IncorrectBananas may be healthy, but consuming them won’t treat gastrointestinal diseases nor limit the replication of HIV
Claim:
“Bananas are a powerful antiviral food—so powerful that they have the capacity to repel growth of the retrovirus HIV“
Source: Medical Medium, Anthony William, 2021-02-21 -
InaccurateThere are FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. as of May 2023, contrary to claim by Peter McCullough
Claim:
There are no FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines on the U.S market as of May 2023
Source: Children's Health Defense, Peter McCullough, 2023-05-26 -
MisleadingLetter to the UN was not signed by 500 scientists or experts on climate science
Claim:
500 Scientists Write U.N.: ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’.... More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a 'European Climate Declaration' to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
Source: Breitbart, Thomas D. Williams, 2019-09-24 -
MisleadingInfluencer Gary Brecka spreads misinformation about water fluoridation in Instagram post
Claim:
“[F]luoride is a neurotoxin. Studies link it to lower IQ in kids, thyroid dysfunction, and weakened bone density”
Source: Instagram, Gary Brecka, 2025-03-28 -
MisleadingSaliva might be an accurate, less-invasive alternative to nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 diagnosis; more research is needed to standardize its use in molecular testing
Claim:
There is no need to use nasopharyngeal swabs for COVID-19 testing, mouth swabs can be used instead
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-07-09 -
UnsupportedNo evidence that John D. Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing” or had practitioners arrested and jailed
Claim:
Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing modalities” to profit from petroleum-based medicine, had natural medicine practitioners arrested and jailed
Source: Facebook, TikTok, Social media users, 2023-05-09