Claim reviews
Various childhood vaccines have been tested in saline placebo-controlled randomized trials, contrary to claims by those opposed to vaccination
CLAIM
“No childhood vaccine has ever been through a double blind placebo controlled trial.”
SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Facebook
Published: 01 Mar 2024
VERDICT
The level of aluminum in childhood vaccines is safe, even for babies
CLAIM
Per FDA guidelines, babies are too small to safely handle the amount of aluminum in childhood vaccines
SOURCE: Instagram Users, Instagram
Published: 28 Feb 2024
VERDICT
France passed a law targeting health-threatening psychological manipulation and influence, but didn’t criminalize criticism of mRNA vaccines
CLAIM
“France will send citizens to jail if they question mRNA vaccines”; “It’s now a crime in France to oppose the mRNA vax”
SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram
Published: 23 Feb 2024
VERDICT
The American Red Cross doesn’t prevent people vaccinated against COVID-19 from donating blood, contrary to rehashed viral claim
CLAIM
COVID-19 vaccine recipients might not be eligible for blood donation
SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter
Published: 23 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Global COVID Vaccine Safety study identified already-known risks, doesn’t show that risks are greater than benefits
CLAIM
Global COVID Vaccine Safety study shows that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, inadequately tested; getting vaccinated is more dangerous than getting COVID-19
SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter
Published: 23 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Vaccines don’t cause autism; difference in infant mortality rates between Japan and the U.S. unrelated to childhood vaccine coverage
CLAIM
Vaccines contain unhealthy levels of aluminum; Japan’s elimination of vaccines has reduced infant mortality
SOURCE: Social Media User, Instagram
Published: 20 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Childhood vaccines are an important protection against preventable diseases, not “poison” as claimed by Candace Owens
CLAIM
Doctors are ‘injecting poison’ into babies every two months.
SOURCE: Candace Owens, Twitter
Published: 16 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Instagram reel promotes the baseless claim that viruses don’t exist, ignoring more than a century of science about infectious diseases
CLAIM
Viruses don’t exist, terrain theory explains why diseases occur
SOURCE: Matt Roeske, Cultivate Elevate
Published: 15 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Claim that myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccines carries serious risk of death is based on flawed study
CLAIM
Study shows myocarditis from COVID-19 vaccination carries serious risk of death
SOURCE: Joseph Mackinnon, The Blaze
Published: 08 Feb 2024
VERDICT
Epidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work
CLAIM
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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