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Moderna booster vaccine trials didn’t cause “mass heart attacks” in children, contrary to online claims
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“Moderna Covered Up ‘Mass Heart Attacks of Toddlers’ in COVID Jab Trials”
SOURCE: Sean Adl-Tabatabai, The People's Voice
Published: 24 Jan 2025
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Nature Biotechnology study misrepresented in social media posts claiming “all mRNA jabs cause heart damage”
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Nature study shows “all mRNA jabs cause heart damage”
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, X/Twitter
Published: 23 Jan 2025
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COVID-19 vaccines not shown to have “negative efficacy”, contrary to claim by Nicolas Hulscher
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New research from Japan shows COVID-19 vaccines have “negative efficacy”
SOURCE: Nicolas Hulscher, Substack
Published: 22 Jan 2025
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Experimental study using mosquitoes to vaccinate against malaria wasn’t funded by Bill Gates
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“Researchers Funded by Bill Gates Turn Mosquitoes into ‘Flying Syringes’ to Deliver Vaccines”
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, Instagram
Published: 22 Jan 2025
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Mel Gibson makes baseless claim on Joe Rogan’s podcast that dewormers ivermectin and fenbendazole are effective cancer cures
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Ivermectin, fenbendazole have been used to cure stage four cancer
SOURCE: Mel Gibson, Joe Rogan, The Joe Rogan Experience
Published: 16 Jan 2025
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The human metapneumovirus (hMPV) has been circulating for decades and isn’t a side effect of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
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“Pfizer has disclosed that Human Metapneumovirus is one of the potential side effects of their mRNA vaccine”
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook
Published: 15 Jan 2025
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Pfizer didn’t release a list of COVID-19 vaccine side effects in 2025, contrary to allegations on social media
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“Pfizer just released a few days ago the side effects of the jab” ; this lists contains more than forty medical conditions that are side effects of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook
Published: 10 Jan 2025
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New study from Brazil doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines increase risk of death in the long term
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COVID-19 vaccines had a short-term “negligible” benefit, but caused a "substantially greater risk of death”, a new study showed
SOURCE: Patrick Flynn, Facebook
Published: 08 Jan 2025
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Ingredients in bird flu vaccine Audenz are safe in the amounts present; no evidence that they’re toxic or cause cancer
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Bird flu vaccine contains dog DNA and other ingredients that are toxic or carcinogenic
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook
Published: 06 Jan 2025
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Uterus doesn’t require “cleansing”; onion tea can’t cure gynecological conditions like fibroids, cysts, or irregular periods
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Onion tea can “cleanse” the uterus and eliminate fibroids, cysts, and irregular periods
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, Instagram
Published: 30 Dec 2024
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