Claim reviews
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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