Reviews of articles from: Twitter

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Steve Kirsch promotes flawed study making false claim about COVID-19 vaccines and cancer risk

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“Pathologist reports a stunning 52% increase in cancer risk for ages 15-59 who were vaxxed”

SOURCE: Steve Kirsch, Ivana Pavic, Substack, Instagram, Twitter

Published: 18 Mar 2024

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Tennessee House Bill HB1894 isn’t evidence that vaccines are present in food at grocery stores; edible vaccines remain hypothetical for now

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Researchers have “already perfected the ability to put human vaccines” into certain foods “right now”; grocery vegetables might contain human vaccines

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok

Published: 01 Mar 2024

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The American Red Cross doesn’t prevent people vaccinated against COVID-19 from donating blood, contrary to rehashed viral claim

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COVID-19 vaccine recipients might not be eligible for blood donation

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter

Published: 23 Feb 2024

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Global COVID Vaccine Safety study identified already-known risks, doesn’t show that risks are greater than benefits

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Global COVID Vaccine Safety study shows that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous, inadequately tested; getting vaccinated is more dangerous than getting COVID-19

SOURCE: Social media users, Instagram, Twitter

Published: 23 Feb 2024

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Childhood vaccines are an important protection against preventable diseases, not “poison” as claimed by Candace Owens

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Doctors are ‘injecting poison’ into babies every two months.

SOURCE: Candace Owens, Twitter

Published: 16 Feb 2024

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Vaccines don’t cause childhood cancer, contrary to claim by Candace Owens

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Vaccines have caused an "explosion" of childhood cancer; vaccine package insert states vaccines weren’t tested for mutagenic effect

SOURCE: Candace Owens, Twitter

Published: 25 Jan 2024

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Rat study alleged to link COVID-19 vaccines to autism cannot be generalized to humans and contains important limitations

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“COVID-19 Shots Linked to Autism in Vaccinated Rats: Study”

SOURCE: Social media users, The Epoch Times, Substack, Twitter

Published: 18 Jan 2024

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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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Contrary to viral claim, regulatory agencies knew of residual DNA in COVID-19 mRNA vaccines; no evidence this poses health concern

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Regulatory agencies didn’t know of residual DNA contamination in COVID-19 RNA vaccines; residual DNA could integrate into our DNA and cause cancer

SOURCE: Steve Kirsch, Twitter

Published: 25 Oct 2023

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Testimony by Steve Kirsch on the alleged harms of vaccination relies on flawed, biased analyses

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“All these vaccines are causing harm to our kids”; “The fully unvaccinated kids are always healthier”; “vaccines are causing chronic disease in America”

SOURCE: Steve Kirsch, Twitter

Published: 10 Aug 2023

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