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Health Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in health and medical media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust.

Latest Article Reviews

New York Times accurately reports vaccine-derived polio outbreaks caused by low vaccine coverage

New York Times

"The content of the article is correct: attenuated polio strain type 2 contained in the oral vaccine can – in very rare cases – mutate and cause disease in under-immunized pers..

- 02 Dec 2019

Daily Mail article misleads with clickbait headline claiming cowpox-derived virus will “kill every type of cancer”

Daily Mail

"This article substantially overhypes early pre-clinical work with a viral therapy that has not yet been tested in even the earliest stages of human clinical trials. The headline i..

- 20 Nov 2019

Washington Post article provides accurate and insightful report on recent spate of vaping-related illnesses

Washington Post

"At the moment, it is not possible to know if these pulmonary diseases are related to propylene glycol, glycerol, nicotine, flavorings, or more likely, synthetic/natural drugs some..

- 13 Sep 2019

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Latest Claim Reviews

Vitamin C supplementation does not prevent viral respiratory infections, such as those caused by coronaviruses, in the general population

"The coronavirus pandemic can be dramatically slowed, or stopped, with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C"

Andrew W. Saul, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Health Impact News

- 20 Feb 2020

2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) does not contain “pShuttle-SN” sequence; no evidence that virus is man-made

"2019 novel coronavirus contains "pShuttle-SN" sequence proving laboratory origin"

Alex Jones, Mike Adams, InfoWars, Natural News

- 10 Feb 2020

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Insights

Do radio waves from mobile devices cause cancer? A look at the evidence

Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives, and most people would not consider even leaving the house without one. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) has est...

- 08 Apr 2019

How we know vaccines don’t cause autism – and why this belief persists

The claim that “vaccines cause autism” first received its scientific backing by Andrew Wakefield’s now-retracted study in The Lancet, published in 1998. The study...

- 26 Mar 2019

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