Claim reviews
Scientific studies show that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine reduces transmission; claim by Rob Roos is misleading
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“In COVID hearing, #Pfizer director admits: #vaccine was never tested on preventing transmission. ‘Get vaccinated for others’ was always a lie.”
SOURCE: Rob Roos, Twitter
Published: 18 Oct 2022
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Link between CO2 and Earth’s temperature is well-established, despite claims on Fox News
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Scientists have found no consistent correlation between CO2 and temperature; scientists do not know whether earth will warm or cool in future
SOURCE: Tom Harris , Fox News
Published: 18 Oct 2022
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Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, but evidence so far doesn’t show that diabetes causes Alzheimer’s
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“Alzheimer’s most of the time is preventable. It’s not genetic, and it’s type 3 diabetes, which is insulin resistance of the brain”
SOURCE: Social media users, TikTok, Facebook
Published: 15 Oct 2022
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Analysis by Florida Department of Health about COVID-19 mRNA vaccines contains multiple methodological problems
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Florida study found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines increase the risk of cardiac-related death, especially in men
SOURCE: Joseph Ladapo, Fox News, Twitter
Published: 13 Oct 2022
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Little clinical evidence supports the use of high-dose intravenous vitamin C to treat cancer
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Intravenous vitamin C specifically kills only cancer cells and not healthy cells
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, TikTok
Published: 11 Oct 2022
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Scientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan
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“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.
SOURCE: Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience
Published: 11 Oct 2022
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Charlie Kirk’s video listing reasons to oppose COVID-19 vaccines contains multiple incorrect, misleading, and unsupported statements
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COVID-19 vaccines were “rushed into market”; VAERS shows an “unusual spike in vaccine adverse events”; unvaccinated people aren't a threat to vaccinated people
SOURCE: Charlie Kirk, The Charlie Kirk Show
Published: 08 Oct 2022
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Biden’s 2021 remarks on the role of COVID-19 vaccines in hurricane preparedness misrepresented in social media posts
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President Joe Biden told people to get vaccinated to protect themselves from hurricanes
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, TikTok
Published: 07 Oct 2022
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Article by cardiologist Aseem Malhotra made unsupported claims about the benefits and risks of COVID-19 vaccination
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mRNA COVID-19 vaccines might do more harm than good
SOURCE: Aseem Malhotra, Journal of Insulin Resistance
Published: 06 Oct 2022
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Neither medical treatments nor errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.
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“The third leading cause of death is MD-directed treatments”
SOURCE: Peter Glidden, TikTok
Published: 05 Oct 2022
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