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Retracted study misused statistics and adverse event reports to claim that COVID-19 vaccines don’t offer “clear benefit” and caused deaths
Claim:
“For three deaths prevented by vaccination we have to accept two inflicted by vaccination.”
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Source: MDPI, Harald Walach, Rainer Klement, Wouter Aukema, 2021-06-24 -
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IncorrectScientific evidence supports the use of face masks for reducing the transmission of respiratory diseases including COVID-19
Claim:
Masks do nothing to prevent the spread of pathogens
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2020-05-17 -
IncorrectPopulation aging, not margarine or a low-cholesterol diet, is behind the rise in Alzheimer’s
Claim:
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 -
IncorrectLaura Braden’s comments questioning the safety and usefulness of childhood vaccines are unfounded; studies show that the hepatitis B and HPV vaccines are safe
Claim:
Vaccines and vitamin K injections given to children are unsafe
Source: Rumble, Instagram, Laura Braden, 2022-11-18 -
UnsupportedViral videos on Facebook promote unproven cancer cures; no evidence that pharmaceutical companies and the U.S. FDA are hiding the cure for cancer
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Turmeric, ketogenic diet, ozone therapy, megadoses of vitamin C and adaptogens are cures for cancer that have been suppressed for four decades
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2022-12-11 -
IncorrectHow we know that Earth and the Universe are billions of years old and that evolution is real
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Nebulas caused by supernovas show that the Universe is 6,000 years old; The postulates of evolution haven't been observed
Source: Instagram, Major G. Coleman, 2024-09-28 -
“Plandemic” vignette featuring anti-vaccination activist Judy Mikovits contains numerous false and unsupported claims about COVID-19
…a link between “the common use of animal and human fetal tissues” and chronic diseases, and that the U.S. HHS was somehow involved in this, is inaccurate and unsupported. Snopes…
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MisleadingContrary to widespread misrepresentation, new study finds “extremely minimal” impact of human breathing on climate
Claim:
Scientists say human breathing is fueling global warming
Source: Daily Mail, Jonathan Chadwick, 2023-12-13 -
IncorrectRobert Malone’s statements on The Dana Show about vaccine safety and virus variants are inaccurate and unsupported
Claim:
Booster COVID-19 vaccine doses can “shut down the immune response”; heart damage following vaccination is “quite frequent”; “many of these [SARS-CoV-2] mutations are being driven by the evolutionary selection caused by the vaccines”
Source: The Dana Show, Robert Malone, 2021-12-09