Instagram reel promotes the baseless claim that viruses don’t exist, ignoring more than a century of science about infectious diseases

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Viruses don’t exist, terrain theory explains why diseases occur

SOURCE: Matt Roeske, Cultivate Elevate

Published: 15 Feb 2024

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Claim that myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines carries serious risk of death is based on flawed study

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Study shows myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination carries serious risk of death

SOURCE: Joseph Mackinnon, The Blaze

Published: 08 Feb 2024

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Epidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work

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Polio vaccine doesn’t work; India had no cases of non-polio paralysis until polio vaccine was introduced; polio was renamed to hide its existence

SOURCE: Jaclyn Simone, Instagram

Published: 01 Feb 2024

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Incorrect claim that COVID-19 vaccines caused a 143,233% surge in cancer results from flawed calculations that misuse adverse event reporting data

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“Official CDC data: 143,233% surge in fatal cancers among Vaxxed Americans”

SOURCE: Anonymous, The Exposé

Published: 01 Feb 2024

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False-positive HIV tests don’t imply that a person is immunodeficient, contrary to claim by Peter McCullough

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“The HIV test can turn positive after COVID-19 as well as the vaccine”; “maybe a form of immunodeficiency is there”

SOURCE: Peter McCullough, Rumble, Instagram

Published: 30 Jan 2024

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Vaccines don’t cause childhood cancer, contrary to claim by Candace Owens

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Vaccines have caused an "explosion" of childhood cancer; vaccine package insert states vaccines weren’t tested for mutagenic effect

SOURCE: Candace Owens, Twitter

Published: 25 Jan 2024

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Russell Brand’s YouTube videos use flawed analyses and simplistic correlations to link COVID-19 vaccines to heart issues, cancer, excess deaths

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COVID-19 vaccines are associated with an increase in heart conditions, cancer

SOURCE: Russell Brand, YouTube

Published: 23 Jan 2024

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Folk remedy of placing raw onions on feet to cure illness lacks scientific evidence

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Placing raw onion on the bottom of the feet eliminates illness

SOURCE: Social Media Users, Facebook

Published: 20 Jan 2024

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Rat study alleged to link COVID-19 vaccines to autism cannot be generalized to humans and contains important limitations

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“COVID-19 Shots Linked to Autism in Vaccinated Rats: Study”

SOURCE: Social media users, The Epoch Times, Substack, Twitter

Published: 18 Jan 2024

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Johns Hopkins report on the 2025 SPARS pandemic isn’t evidence that an upcoming pandemic is being planned

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“they already have the pandemic planned”; “there’s an 89-page pdf about how they’ll push everything”

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram

Published: 15 Jan 2024

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