Inaccurate
Sunscreen doesn’t cause melanoma; most melanoma cases are due to excess UV radiation from the sun
Claim:
Melanoma wasn’t a problem until after sunscreen was invented; low vitamin D is associated with melanoma
Articles tagged with
Vitamin D
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Source: Facebook, Instagram, Social media users, 2024-08-12 -
InaccurateVitamin D3 supplements are safe for treating vitamin D deficiency; comparison to rat poison is misleading
Claim:
“Vitamin D3 is radiated sheep’s wool mixed with chloroform”, “Vitamin D3 IS RAT POISON !!”, “D levels are low because of lack of light and high vitamin A diets.”
Source: Facebook, Evan Torrens, 2024-05-24 -
IncorrectUnprotected sun overexposure, not sunscreen or sunglasses, causes sunburn and skin cancer
Claim:
“sunscreen and then skin cancer, it's a direct correlation”; wearing sunglasses increases the risk of sunburn; sunscreen reduces vitamin D production
Source: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Social media users, 2024-07-11 -
UnsupportedThere is no evidence that dietary supplements containing zinc and a zinc ionophore, such as the one promoted by Vladimir Zelenko, are effective against COVID-19
Claim:
Zinc supplements can protect against COVID-19; Zinc “kills the virus” and zinc ionophores are a “a zinc delivery system” that “allows zinc to go from outside the cell to inside the cell”
Source: Gateway Pundit, Vladimir Zelenko, 2021-01-06 -
Incorrect
Family physician Daniel Stock repeated previously debunked misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and control strategies in a Mount Vernon School Board Meeting
Claim:
Face masks don’t reduce the spread of respiratory infections; COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, and may lead to more severe disease; ivermectin, vitamin D, and zinc are effective COVID-19 treatments
Source: YouTube, Daniel Stock, 2021-08-06 -
Incorrect
Family physician Daniel Stock repeated previously debunked misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and control strategies in a Mount Vernon School Board Meeting
Claim:
Face masks don’t reduce the spread of respiratory infections; COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, and may lead to more severe disease; ivermectin, vitamin D, and zinc are effective COVID-19 treatments
Source: YouTube, Daniel Stock, 2021-08-06 -
Mostly accurate
More evidence needed for the claim that vitamin D supplements reduce risk of COVID-19 infection
Claim:
“Habitual use of vitamin D supplements was associated with a 34% lower risk of COVID-19 infection”; “This is an observational study so causation cannot be established”
Source: Instagram, Rhonda Patrick, 2021-02-04 -
Flawed reasoning
Vaccines are useful even when there is a treatment for a disease, contrary to claim by Lee Merritt in The New American video
Claim:
“We have vaccines because we didn't have treatment for smallpox and it was a very deadly disease that made sense to have a vaccine. [...] but [COVID-19]? Even without doing anything, this disease has a 99.991[%] chance of survival.”
Source: The New American, Lee Merritt, 2021-01-15 -
Unsupported
Dozens of clinical trials ongoing to investigate whether vitamin D prevents COVID-19; no firm evidence yet
Claim:
“Vitamin D insufficiency [...] may account for the majority of COVID-19 deaths”
Source: Facebook, Instagram, Facebook users, 2020-11-30 -
Partially correct
Some evidence suggests that vitamin C and D supplementation might prevent or treat respiratory infections, but their effectiveness is still being tested with COVID-19
Claim:
Vitamins C and D are now finally being adopted in the conventional treatment of SARS-CoV-2; Vitamin C at extremely high doses acts as an antiviral drug, actually killing viruses; vitamin D helps the body fight SARS-CoV-2 infection and can cut infection risk.
Source: Mercola, Joseph Mercola, 2020-04-02
