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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Human error in vaccine preparation led to the deaths of two children in Samoa after MMR shot – MMR vaccine itself is safe and effective

CLAIM
Samoa withdraws vaccine protecting against measles, mumps and rubella after two babies die within minutes of receiving the routine shot

SOURCE: Lauren Ferri, Daily Mail

Published: 24 Oct 2019

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ADHD prevalence in France is similar to that of other developed countries like the US, cultural differences notwithstanding

CLAIM
These two very different cultures have different ADHD levels in children, in America the rate is 19 percent, and in France, it’s .5% – a half of a percent

SOURCE: Anonymous, Marilyn Wedge, World's Finest New Recipes, Psychology Today

Published: 21 Oct 2019

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misrepresents WHO causality assessment for adverse events following vaccination, wrongly claims it enables cover-up of vaccine deaths

CLAIM
[It] is nearly impossible to categorize post-vaccine deaths as vaccine-related

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

Published: 15 Oct 2019

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Study did not report that cannabis smoking leads to “complete remission” of Crohn’s disease, contrary to widely-circulated claim

CLAIM
smoking marijuana causes ‘complete remission’ of Crohn’s disease

SOURCE: Anonymous, UK Health Expert, BloomsMag

Published: 10 Oct 2019

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Claim that ginger is more effective than chemotherapy for cancer treatment is unsupported

CLAIM
ginger is 10,000x more effective at killing cancer than chemo

SOURCE: Anonymous, Feature Remedies, Health Holistic Living

Published: 30 Sep 2019

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