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Reviews of articles by: Paul Joseph Watson
CLAIM REVIEWS
Italy didn’t change its definition of COVID-19 deaths; the disease killed more than 130,000 Italians
CLAIM
“Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by over 97% after changing the definition of a fatality to someone who died from COVID rather than with COVID”
SOURCE: Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News, Zero Hedge, Il Tempo
Published: 11 Nov 2021
VERDICT
Altered image falsely suggests that restaurant staff in Maine are required to wear dog cone-style face visors to protect against COVID-19
CLAIM
“Governor of Maine orders restaurant staff to wear COVID visors like dog cones”
SOURCE: Sherri Tenpenny, Paul Joseph Watson, Twitter, Summit News
Published: 27 Aug 2020
VERDICT
No conclusive evidence links consumption of bats with the 2019 coronavirus outbreak
CLAIM
Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak linked to eating bats
SOURCE: Emma Parker, Gemma Mullin, Paul Joseph Watson, Daily Star, The Sun, InfoWars
Published: 26 Jan 2020
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Climate change is one factor affecting how fires in Australia burn, regardless of whether arsonists or lightning started them
CLAIM
the bushfires [in Australia] were caused by arsonists and a series of lightning strikes, not 'climate change'
SOURCE: Sean Adl-Tabatabai, Thomas D. Williams, NewsPunch, Breitbart
Published: 08 Jan 2020
VERDICT
Non-peer-reviewed manuscript falsely claims natural cloud changes can explain global warming
CLAIM
During the last hundred years the temperature is increased about 0.1°C because of carbon dioxide. The human contribution was about 0.01°C.
SOURCE: Jyrki Kauppinen, Pekka Malmi, Paul Joseph Watson, Summit.news, Zerohedge
Published: 12 Jul 2019
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