Claim reviews
No evidence that the milk protein casein causes cancer; claim is based on animal studies involving other well-known risk factors for liver cancer like hepatitis B virus infection
CLAIM
“Milk from cows 'has the most relevant carcinogen ever identified’ and ‘turns on cancer'“
SOURCE: Arjun Walia, Collective Evolution
Published: 21 Mar 2021
VERDICT
No aborted fetal tissue or cells in the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
CLAIM
“The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has aborted fetal tissue from aborted babies from the retina as well as from kidney cells”
SOURCE: Rizza Islam, Instagram
Published: 18 Mar 2021
VERDICT
COVID-19 RNA vaccines are safe, cannot modify human DNA; death rate in vaccinated people isn’t higher than in unvaccinated people
CLAIM
“The protein then can bind to your DNA and irreversibly change it”; “[It] has several different type of lipids on it that have never been injected into human beings before”; “We could be looking at right now as many as 12,000 deaths”
SOURCE: Sherri Tenpenny, Daystar
Published: 17 Mar 2021
VERDICT
Oxygen in the air doesn’t prevent people from getting tetanus through cuts with dirty or rusty objects; the vaccine is important to prevent infection
CLAIM
“The tetanus bacteria is an anaerobic bacteria. That means that it cannot live in the presence of oxygen. You cannot get tetanus by stepping on a rusty nail.“
SOURCE: Steven Baker, Facebook
Published: 15 Mar 2021
VERDICT
Mask mandates are associated with reductions in the spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths; contrary to One America News article
CLAIM
“CDC: Face Masks Don’t Prevent COVID-19, Study Finds Masks Have Negligible Impact on Coronavirus Numbers”; CDC “admitted such mandates do not make any statistical difference.”
SOURCE: OANN editors, One America News Network
Published: 12 Mar 2021
VERDICT
Vaccines are safe and aren’t associated with autoimmune disease, contrary to claim in viral video by chiropractor Steven Baker
CLAIM
“Vaccines cause autoimmune disease”; COVID-19 vaccine will “change your genes”; aborted fetal tissue is in vaccines
SOURCE: Steven Baker, Facebook
Published: 11 Mar 2021
VERDICT
Data from Israel showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces the likelihood of dying from COVID-19; analysis in a forum post claiming the opposite is flawed
CLAIM
“the Pfizer vaccines, for the elderly, killed during the 5-week vaccination period about 40 times more people than the disease itself would have killed”
SOURCE: Haim Yativ, Children’s Health Defense, GreenMedInfo
Published: 09 Mar 2021
VERDICT
COVID-19 vaccines start to provide protection within two weeks of the first dose, with no evidence they increase the risk of infection before then
CLAIM
“Now a Public Health England report confirms that infections increase during the fortnight after vaccination”
SOURCE: Niall McCrae, Gateway Pundit
Published: 09 Mar 2021
VERDICT
Six residents in a German nursing home died from COVID-19, not from vaccines
CLAIM
“25% of residents in German nursing home died after Pfizer vaccine”; a team including a soldier in uniform used force to vaccinate residents
SOURCE: Anonymous, Children’s Health Defense
Published: 06 Mar 2021
VERDICT
The U.S. leads the world in number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered, but not in the proportion of the population vaccinated
CLAIM
“In five weeks, America has administered the most COVID vaccine shots than any other country in the world.”
SOURCE: Facebook Users, Facebook
Published: 04 Mar 2021
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