Claim reviews
No, the Shanghai government has not recommended intravenous vitamin C as a treatment for COVID-19
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The government of Shanghai, China has announced its official recommendation that COVID-19 should be treated with high amounts of intravenous vitamin C
SOURCE: Andrew W. Saul, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
Published: 20 Mar 2020
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Long-term remission of an HIV patient who received a stem cell transplant is the closest so far to a full HIV cure
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The second person ever has been cured from HIV
SOURCE: Michelle Roberts, Tom Hale, BBC, IFLScience
Published: 19 Mar 2020
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CO2 can increase plant growth in greenhouses while also negatively affecting ecosystems and human societies
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CO2 is a plant nutrient...it’s not a pollutant that threatens human civilization. If CO2 was so terrible for the planet, then installing a CO2 generator in a greenhouse would kill the plants.
SOURCE: Mike Adams, Natural News
Published: 19 Mar 2020
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Electroverse article incorrectly claims the Sun is behind climate change
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the IPCC is wrong − the sun, not CO2, drove modern global warming
SOURCE: Roger Higgs, Electroverse
Published: 18 Mar 2020
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Claim that burning sage purifies the air based on study that burned entirely different plants
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Research shows burning Sage cleans bacteria in the air
SOURCE: Anonymous, MyHighPlains, Spirit Science
Published: 14 Mar 2020
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Sea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods
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Sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization
SOURCE: Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
Published: 12 Mar 2020
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Viral claim falsely asserts that COVID-19 is due to 5G technology rollout, not a virus
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The coronavirus outbreak is not actually caused by a virus, but by 5G technology
SOURCE: Dana Ashlie, YouTube
Published: 12 Mar 2020
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Contrary to viral Facebook claim, numerous studies show vaccines don’t cause autism
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there are no studies that prove vaccines don’t cause autism
SOURCE: Del Bigtree, Joe Martino, The HighWire, Collective Evolution
Published: 11 Mar 2020
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No, not every U.S. election year has had a disease outbreak and COVID-19 transmissibility is unconfirmed
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Every election year has a disease; coronavirus has a contagion factor of 2
SOURCE: Facebook users, Facebook
Published: 07 Mar 2020
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Scientific evidence indicates virus that causes COVID-19 infection is of natural origin, not the result of human engineering
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evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 research being carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
SOURCE: Steven W. Mosher, New York Post, Daily Wire, InfoWars
Published: 05 Mar 2020
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