Data from glaciers around the world show most are shrinking as a consequence of global warming

CLAIM
90 percent of the world’s glaciers are growing.

SOURCE: IceAgeNow, Principia Scientific International

Published: 26 Feb 2020

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Cancer is composed of mutated body cells, not Candida fungi

CLAIM
Cancer is Candida/Fungus and can be cured

SOURCE: Anonymous, Healing Oracle

Published: 25 Feb 2020

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Current climate warming is rapid and occurring on a global scale, unlike past periods of regional climate fluctuations

CLAIM
Of course the climate is changing. It always has. It always will.

SOURCE: Patrick Moore, PragerU

Published: 21 Feb 2020

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Sea levels have risen throughout the 20th century, contrary to claim in online articles

CLAIM
Scientists were caught 'adjusting' sea level data to create false impression of rising oceans

SOURCE: Vicki Batts, James Delingpole, Signs of the Times, Breitbart

Published: 20 Feb 2020

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Vitamin C supplementation does not prevent viral respiratory infections, such as those caused by coronaviruses, in the general population

CLAIM
The coronavirus pandemic can be dramatically slowed, or stopped, with the immediate widespread use of high doses of vitamin C

SOURCE: Andrew W. Saul, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, Health Impact News

Published: 20 Feb 2020

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NOAA does not fraudulently adjust data to create the illusion of a global warming trend

CLAIM
Using complex statistical models, [NOAA] change[s] the data to reflect not reality, but their underlying theories of global warming.

SOURCE: Anonymous, Investor's Business Daily

Published: 19 Feb 2020

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Chemical in garlic eliminates certain bacterial cells faster than two common antibiotics, but not by 100 times

CLAIM
Garlic proven 100 times more effective than antibiotics

SOURCE: Anonymous, Why Don't You Try This

Published: 17 Feb 2020

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Overwhelming scientific evidence shows that smoking causes lung cancer, instead of protecting against it

CLAIM
Smoking may protect lungs from cancer

SOURCE: Grayson Black, NewsPunch

Published: 12 Feb 2020

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CO2 emissions from human activities have imbalanced the atmospheric carbon budget, significantly contributing to climate change, contrary to online claim

CLAIM
Less than 5% of carbon dioxide emissions are produced by man [... they] can’t cause 30% of today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide

SOURCE: I&I Editorial Board, Issues & Insights

Published: 11 Feb 2020

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2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) does not contain “pShuttle-SN” sequence; no evidence that virus is man-made

CLAIM
2019 novel coronavirus contains 'pShuttle-SN' sequence proving laboratory origin

SOURCE: Alex Jones, Mike Adams, InfoWars, Natural News

Published: 10 Feb 2020

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