Claim reviews
Video of person smoking in a pile of body bags isn’t a staging of COVID-19 victims but part of a Russian music video
CLAIM
A video showed people “preparing body bags for the evening news clip during the pandemic”
SOURCE: Facebook Users, Facebook
Published: 17 Apr 2024
VERDICT
Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche makes unsupported prediction that mass COVID-19 vaccination will cause an immune “collapse”
CLAIM
COVID-19 vaccines will cause a “massive tsunami” of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths due to immune escape; Immune “dysregulation” in vaccinated people is turning COVID-19 into “a more chronic disease that we call long COVID”
SOURCE: KunstlerCast, Kunstlercast
Published: 15 Apr 2024
VERDICT
Country-to-country comparison doesn’t show that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective, contrary to Facebook post by journalist Sharyl Attkisson
CLAIM
“As more people got vaccinated for Covid, more people got Covid.”
SOURCE: Sharyl Attkisson, Facebook
Published: 15 Apr 2024
VERDICT
Mamavation report doesn’t provide sufficient evidence for the claim that Band-Aids contain “cancer-causing forever chemicals”
CLAIM
Cancer-causing forever chemicals found in Band Aids
SOURCE: Social media users, TikTok
Published: 12 Apr 2024
VERDICT
It’s safe to use aluminum foil when cooking food; no evidence to date showing it causes Alzheimer’s or cancer
CLAIM
Cooking with aluminum foil can cause Alzheimer’s, cancer
SOURCE: Social media user, Facebook
Published: 05 Apr 2024
VERDICT
Febrile seizures after COVID-19 vaccination are rare and aren’t linked to long-term health problems, contrary to implication in Gateway Pundit article
CLAIM
“FDA admits” that “young children are at a ‘significantly elevated’ risk of seizure after taking the COVID-19 vaccine”
SOURCE: Ben Kew, Gateway Pundit
Published: 05 Apr 2024
VERDICT
Claim that the HPV vaccine increases risk of cervical cancer misleads by cherry-picking data from FDA document
CLAIM
HPV vaccine increases the risk of developing cervical cancer
SOURCE: Pierre Kory, Instagram
Published: 05 Apr 2024
VERDICT
2019 report by TV host Sharyl Attkisson exaggerates one expert’s opinion in court case to claim vaccines cause autism
CLAIM
Government silenced “top expert witness” who denied the vaccine-autism link in court and changed opinion; his testimony could have changed the court’s decision
SOURCE: Sharyl Attkisson, Full Measure
Published: 03 Apr 2024
VERDICT
No, a court didn’t rule that the FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19
CLAIM
Court rules FDA broke the law with advisory warning against using ivermectin for COVID-19; FDA lost lawsuit, proving ivermectin is effective against COVID-19
SOURCE: Roger O'Handley, Pierre Kory, Jim Hoft, Twitter, Gateway Pundit
Published: 28 Mar 2024
VERDICT
Fluoride level in U.S. drinking water is safe; people of all ages, including infants, can consume fluoridated water
CLAIM
Babies shouldn’t drink fluoridated water; the blood-brain barrier in infants is not fully formed until six months of age
SOURCE: Robert W. B. Love, Instagram
Published: 22 Mar 2024
VERDICT