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Social media post inaccurately claims natural remedy of garlic, onions, thyme, and lemon can replace the flu shot
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A soup made of garlic, onions, thyme, and lemon can replace the flu shot and cure other illnesses such as the common cold and norovirus
SOURCE: Anonymous, Healthy Holistic Living
Published: 14 Nov 2023
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James Thorp spreads false claims that COVID-19 vaccines harm fertility, pregnancy, infant survival in The Sentinel Report interview
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“Americans are dropping dead” from COVID-19 vaccines; vaccines impair fertility, pregnancy, infant survival
SOURCE: James Thorp, The Sentinel Report
Published: 11 Nov 2023
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Peter McCullough misinterprets study on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy; the study shows that vaccines are safe for pregnant women
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“No discernible benefit of covid-19 vaccination in pregnancy”; “higher rate of neonatal and all-cause readmissions among babies born to vaccinated mothers”
SOURCE: Peter McCullough, Substack, Instagram
Published: 10 Nov 2023
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Study in Italy didn’t show COVID-19 vaccines have an “unacceptable” safety profile, contrary to claim by Peter McCullough
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Study in Italy shows nearly 1 in 3 COVID vaccine recipients have neurological side effects, indicating an “unacceptable” safety profile
SOURCE: Peter McCullough, Naveen Athrappully, Substack, The Epoch Times
Published: 08 Nov 2023
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2018 coronavirus research in NIAID Montana lab is unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic, contrary to claim by Fox News’s Jesse Watters
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“Fauci frankensteined Covid bats on our soil a year before the pandemic, but then acted all shocked when the virus started spreading” ; Fauci’s goons went to the Wuhan lab, bottled up a virus and brought it to a lab in America”
SOURCE: Jesse Watters, Facebook, Fox News
Published: 07 Nov 2023
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No cure for diabetes currently exists; Facebook posts claiming otherwise use manipulated videos of news to promote fake diabetes cure
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“New medicine normalizes blood sugar levels after the first use”
SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook
Published: 07 Nov 2023
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Residual DNA in COVID-19 mRNA vaccines is documented, isn’t associated with genome modification or cancer, contrary to claim by Robert Malone
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The more COVID-19 vaccines doses people receive, the higher the risk of getting COVID-19; vaccines contain DNA fragments that modify the genome and cause cancer
SOURCE: Robert Malone, The Charlie Kirk Show
Published: 03 Nov 2023
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Preventing deaths isn’t the sole benefit of COVID-19 vaccination, contrary to Epoch Times article
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“An accurate reporting by Pfizer would have shown equal numbers of clinical trial deaths in the vaccine and placebo groups and thus, no benefit of vaccination”
SOURCE: Megan Redshaw, The Epoch Times
Published: 31 Oct 2023
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Claim that COVID-19 vaccines killed 3.5 times more Americans than COVID-19 is based on a highly flawed online survey; inconsistent with excess mortality data
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Vaccine killed 3.5X more Americans than COVID virus
SOURCE: Steve Kirsch, Substack, The People’s Voice
Published: 31 Oct 2023
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Viral video makes inaccurate claims regarding sugar; suggests it causes medical conditions like cancer and ADHD
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Sugar causes ADHD in babies, dementia and Alzheimer's in adults, cancer
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok
Published: 27 Oct 2023
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