Claim reviews

ADHD prevalence in France is similar to that of other developed countries like the US, cultural differences notwithstanding
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These two very different cultures have different ADHD levels in children, in America the rate is 19 percent, and in France, it’s .5% – a half of a percent

SOURCE: Anonymous, Marilyn Wedge, World's Finest New Recipes, Psychology Today

Published: 21 Oct 2019

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misrepresents WHO causality assessment for adverse events following vaccination, wrongly claims it enables cover-up of vaccine deaths
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[It] is nearly impossible to categorize post-vaccine deaths as vaccine-related

SOURCE: Baxter Dmitry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Children's Health Defense, NewsPunch

Published: 15 Oct 2019

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Study did not report that cannabis smoking leads to “complete remission” of Crohn’s disease, contrary to widely-circulated claim
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smoking marijuana causes ‘complete remission’ of Crohn’s disease

SOURCE: Anonymous, UK Health Expert, BloomsMag

Published: 10 Oct 2019

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Claim that ginger is more effective than chemotherapy for cancer treatment is unsupported
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ginger is 10,000x more effective at killing cancer than chemo

SOURCE: Anonymous, Feature Remedies, Health Holistic Living

Published: 30 Sep 2019

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Claim that fasting regenerates the human immune system is unsupported, only based on study in mice
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the act of fasting for as little as three days can regenerate the entire immune system

SOURCE: Anonymous, Daily Health Post

Published: 27 Sep 2019

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Natural News article inaccurately claims ADHD is a “fake disease” invented for profit
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ADHD is a fake disease invented by Big Pharma to drug children for profit

SOURCE: Vicki Batts, Natural News

Published: 17 Sep 2019

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2°C is not known to be a “point of no return”, as Jonathan Franzen claims
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The consensus among scientists and policy-makers is that we’ll pass this point of no return if the global mean temperature rises by more than two degrees Celsius

SOURCE: Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker

Published: 17 Sep 2019

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Claim that “flu shots are killing elderly citizens in record numbers” based on misinterpreted study
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Flu shots are killing elderly citizens in record numbers

SOURCE: Sean Adl-Tabatabai, NewsPunch, Your News Wire

Published: 09 Sep 2019

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Claim that the Earth has cooled since Medieval or Roman times is contradicted by available data
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Peer-reviewed studies, geologic records, and all the studies have shown that we have actually cooled since the Roman Warming Period, and likely since the Medieval Warming Period.

SOURCE: Marc Morano, TFP Student Action

Published: 09 Sep 2019

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Claim of no US warming since 2005 is directly contradicted by the data it is based on
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the U.S. Climate Reference Network[...] finds there has been no warming for the past 14 years at least

SOURCE: James Taylor, John Hinderaker, WND, Powerlineblog, Real Clear Energy

Published: 06 Sep 2019

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