HIV drug Truvada linked to kidney damage and bone density loss, but risks are low and usually outweighed by the drug’s benefits

CLAIM
You took Truvada to help protect against HIV, not increase your risk of kidney or bone problems.

SOURCE: Anonymous, A Case for Women

Published: 24 Dec 2019

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Popular Facebook meme misleadingly suggests that the measles vaccine caused 2019 Samoa measles outbreak

CLAIM
Measles vaccine caused Samoa measles outbreak

SOURCE: Anonymous, Stop Mandatory Vaccination

Published: 13 Dec 2019

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The flu shot is safe and does not cause cancer, contrary to popular claim by chiropractor

CLAIM
The flu shot is made with cancer-causing ingredients

SOURCE: John Bergman, Anonymous Notables

Published: 10 Dec 2019

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Mike Adams falsely claims cancer genes and “entire genetic code” are found in vaccines, based on unverified report

CLAIM
Vaccines [have been] found laced with entire genetic code for abnormal human loaded with cancer genes

SOURCE: Mike Adams, Natural News, Corvelva

Published: 02 Dec 2019

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Studies worldwide demonstrate HPV vaccine safety and no association with serious autoimmune and neurological diseases or problems during pregnancy

CLAIM
the autoimmune diseases and menstrual cycle problems and fertility problems [...] and all of the other things that we’ve now seen are associated with the [HPV] vaccine

SOURCE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children's Health Defense

Published: 25 Nov 2019

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Bone spurs occasionally form at the base of human skulls, but their growth has not been linked to the use of handheld devices

CLAIM
‘Horns’ are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests.

SOURCE: Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Washington Post

Published: 19 Nov 2019

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Endocannabinoids in human breast milk are important for human development, but not present in cannabis

CLAIM
human breast milk naturally contains the same cannabinoids found in the Cannabis plant

SOURCE: Anonymous, CBDLife

Published: 15 Nov 2019

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Vitamin D has not been shown to be more effective than the flu vaccine at preventing flu

CLAIM
Vitamin D is more effective than [the] flu vaccine

SOURCE: Joseph Mercola, Health Impact News

Published: 08 Nov 2019

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In spite of evidence to the contrary, Rizza Islam claims that the MMR vaccine is used for depopulation

CLAIM
The World Health Organization is still pushing this [vaccine] depopulation agenda throughout Africa

SOURCE: Rizza Islam, Sway’s Universe

Published: 31 Oct 2019

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Vaccines do not cause autism, diabetes or cancer, contrary to Shiv Chopra’s claim

CLAIM
All these diseases [...] use [sic] to be rare. Autism use [sic] to be 1 in 10,000. Now it’s 1 in 50. Now, where is it all coming from? Vaccines are doing it.

SOURCE: Shiv Chopra, Natural Nana

Published: 30 Oct 2019

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