Incorrect
MMR vaccine prevents far more risks from measles, mumps, and rubella than it causes
Claim:
The MMR vaccine is more dangerous than the diseases it prevents; vaccination is linked to the rise in autism rates
Articles tagged with
Measles
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Source: Facebook, Candace Owens, 2024-03-03 -
Misleading
Amid measles outbreak in Texas, RFK Jr. misleads on measles vaccine safety in Fox News interview
Claim:
Measles vaccine causes deaths every year and the same illnesses caused by measles
Source: Fox News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2025-03-11 -
Misleading
Vitamin A doesn’t cure or prevent measles; vaccine is most effective prevention
Claim:
Vitamin A can prevent measles or treat measles symptoms
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2025-02-28 -
MisleadingSide effects from vaccination aren’t more dangerous than measles outbreaks
Claim:
Media exaggerates the harm of some measles cases while it ignores millions of “vaccine injury reports”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Social media users, 2025-02-20 -
IncorrectVaccine skeptics misconstrue studies to falsely claim that measles vaccine causes measles outbreaks
Claim:
Measles vaccine caused Texas outbreak; measles vaccine is responsible for measles outbreaks
Source: Children's Health Defense, The People’s Voice, Baxter Dmitry, Marcella Piper-Terry, 2025-02-17 -
MisleadingNo evidence that measles prevents cancer or heart disease, can lead to long-term health problems instead
Claim:
Measles prevents cancer, provides long-term health benefits
Source: Instagram, Social media users, 2025-02-15 -
CorrectFacebook meme correctly states that vaccines led to eradication of polio and smallpox, not “natural herd immunity”
Claim:
"I don't know who needs to hear this but Polio and smallpox never reached natural herd immunity, they were eradicated by vaccines"
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2024-12-10 -
Inaccurate
Infectious diseases like chickenpox and measles are much more likely to cause serious health problems than vaccination
Claim:
Chickenpox and measles aren’t diseases but infections; unlike diseases, infections go away, leaving behind “a lifetime of immunity”; when you vaccinate, you are potentially “causing a disease”
Source: Facebook, Social media users, 2024-10-25 -
Inaccurate
Popular Facebook meme misleadingly suggests that the measles vaccine caused 2019 Samoa measles outbreak
Claim:
Measles vaccine caused Samoa measles outbreak
Source: Stop Mandatory Vaccination, Anonymous, 2019-12-07 -
Inaccurate
Mike Adams falsely claims cancer genes and “entire genetic code” are found in vaccines, based on unverified report
Claim:
Vaccines [have been] found laced with entire genetic code for abnormal human loaded with cancer genes
Source: Natural News, Corvelva, Mike Adams, 2019-10-05
