Inaccurate
Instagram reel promotes the baseless claim that viruses don’t exist, ignoring more than a century of science about infectious diseases
Claim:
Viruses don’t exist, terrain theory explains why diseases occur
Articles tagged with
HIV
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Source: Cultivate Elevate, Matt Roeske, 2024-02-11 -
Flawed reasoningFalse-positive HIV tests don’t imply that a person is immunodeficient, contrary to claim by Peter McCullough
Claim:
“The HIV test can turn positive after COVID-19 as well as the vaccine”; “maybe a form of immunodeficiency is there”
Source: Rumble, Instagram, Peter McCullough, 2024-01-19 -
IncorrectHulda Clark’s “zapper” device is based on pseudoscience; doesn’t kill parasites or cure diseases
Claim:
A “zapper” can kill parasites, bacteria, and viruses; it cures all diseases
Source: TikTok, Facebook, Hulda Clark, 2024-01-03 -
InaccurateApproved COVID-19 vaccines don’t contain HIV proteins and don’t cause AIDS, contrary to claim misquoting BBC documentary
Claim:
COVID-19 vaccines contain proteins from HIV; “if you have taken the third dose, go and take a test for AIDS, then sue your government”
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2023-12-16 -
InaccurateKaposi’s sarcoma is an opportunistic cancer that occurs in advanced AIDS patients; it’s not caused by poppers
Claim:
Poppers are the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma
Source: Facebook, Robert Willner, 2023-03-31 -
IncorrectHIV infection is the cause of AIDS; persistent HIV/AIDS denialism relies on false information and is potentially deadly
Claim:
“HIV does not cause AIDS”
Source: Instagram, Judy Mikovits, 2022-11-14 -
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InaccuratePersistent myths that HIV was created by the West and that HIV medication causes HIV are both false
Claim:
“HIV was an invention created by the West”, people “took the HIV medication and got HIV”, you can “reverse HIV naturally”
Source: Facebook, Yahdan Yada, 2022-04-25 -
Lacks contextStem cell transplantation isn’t a scalable treatment for HIV
Claim:
Umbilical cord stem cells can be a cure for HIV; umbilical cord blood should be collected
Source: Facebook, Facebook users, 2022-02-16 -
IncorrectThe COVID-19 vaccines don’t weaken the immune system and are unrelated to the HIV VB variant
Claim:
The COVID-19 vaccine “destroys the subject’s natural immune system”; HIV VB variant is a “cover up”
Source: The Alex Jones Show, Twitter/X, Facebook, Alex Jones, 2022-02-05