Claim reviews
Claim that 79.4% of SIDS deaths occurred on same day as vaccination misinterprets CDC study
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“79.4% of babies who die of SIDS had a vaccine the same day”
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook
Published: 12 Dec 2024
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AI-generated videos promote false herbal cure for COPD, a currently incurable lung disease
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“A revolutionary pill that combines over 60 natural herbs” cures COPD within three days
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook
Published: 12 Dec 2024
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COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers produced more than 11 billion doses in 2021
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It would take decades to produce enough COVID-19 to vaccinate the world population
SOURCE: Social media users, TikTok, Facebook
Published: 11 Dec 2024
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Scientific evidence shows fluoride in water and toothpaste is safe at recommended levels
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Fluoridated toothpaste can be deadly to children; fluoride causes dental fluorosis, cavities, and cancer
SOURCE: Ty Bollinger, Facebook
Published: 06 Dec 2024
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Flu shots don’t contain dogs as ingredients; cell lines of canine origin are used during the manufacturing process and eliminated from the final vaccine product
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Dogs are an ingredient in flu shots
SOURCE: Facebook Users, Facebook
Published: 05 Dec 2024
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Bleaching agent chlorine dioxide is toxic, isn’t cure for autism
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Chlorine dioxide cures autism
SOURCE: Jonathan Otto, Digital Social Hour
Published: 05 Dec 2024
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No evidence that John D. Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing” or had practitioners arrested and jailed
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Rockefeller suppressed “natural healing modalities” to profit from petroleum-based medicine, had natural medicine practitioners arrested and jailed
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, TikTok
Published: 28 Nov 2024
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Margarine and plastic are chemically unrelated substances, contrary to persistent online claim
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“Margarine is one molecule away from plastic”
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, Instagram
Published: 27 Nov 2024
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Flawed analysis by Peter McCullough and others used to promote baseless claim that brain blood clots “112,000% more likely” after COVID-19 vaccine than flu vaccine
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Brain blood clots are 112,000% more likely to occur after COVID-19 vaccine than after the flu vaccine
SOURCE: Peter McCullough, McCullough Foundation
Published: 22 Nov 2024
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Population aging, not margarine or a low-cholesterol diet, is behind the rise in Alzheimer’s
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75% of the brain is myelin, which is 100% cholesterol; “Alzheimer’s never existed until 1979”; in the 1970s, animal fats in margarine were replaced with low-cholesterol vegetable oils
SOURCE: Social media users, TikTok, Facebook
Published: 22 Nov 2024
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