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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

Viral New York Post article perpetuates the unfounded claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 is manmade

Overall, Mosher’s argument is based on unfounded speculation and scientific inaccuracies. Such claims, which continue to be perpetuated even by public officials, have real-world ...

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

"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..

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

"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..

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Latest Claim Reviews

Claim that flu vaccine increases coronavirus infection is unsupported, misinterprets scientific studies

"flu vaccine increases risk of coronavirus infection"

Benjamin Krause, Facebook users, DisabledVeterans.org, GreenMedInfo

- 30 Mar 2020

The virus that causes COVID-19 can survive on solid surfaces for days, but infection risk from contaminated objects is unknown

"[SARS-CoV-2] is spreading quickly from gas pumps. Shopping carts as well."

Facebook users, Facebook

- 26 Mar 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...

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...