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No clinical evidence supports using cannabis to treat cancer or other conditions, although specific chemicals found in cannabis can be medically useful
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Cannabis can treat cancer, PTSD, seizures, anxiety, glaucoma, and depression
Search results for: "onions and coca cola benefits"
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Source: Facebook, Drug Possession Laws, 2022-09-04 -
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UnsupportedFluoride level in U.S. drinking water is safe; people of all ages, including infants, can consume fluoridated water
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Babies shouldn’t drink fluoridated water; the blood-brain barrier in infants is not fully formed until six months of age
Source: Instagram, Robert W. B. Love, 2024-03-05 -
UnsupportedIvermectin hasn’t proven effective in COVID-19 patients so far, despite persistent online claims
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Ivermectin is a safe and effective COVID-19 treatment
Source: The Epoch Times, Colleen Huber, 2022-12-25 -
-1.3Low2018’s most popular health article promoting cannabis’ safety found to be biased and misleading
…like a paean to cannabis and does not present a balanced view of its potential benefits which have yet to be conclusively demonstrated, and its known harms which have been…
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InaccurateRisk of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is five times higher following COVID-19 than following vaccination
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“huge peer review show[ed] vaccines may have caused tens of millions of serious new health problems worldwide”
Source: Substack, Alex Berenson, 2023-02-28 -
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 -
UnsupportedNo current evidence to support social media fad of “blood type diet”
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Eating specific foods based on your blood type can optimize your health
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2024-07-07 -
MisleadingClaim that erythromycin eye ointment given to newborns is risky is misleading, lacks context
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Erythromycin eye ointment given to newborns carries many risks
Source: Well-Rooted Pediatrics, Anonymous, 2021-10-18