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
Polio
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Source: Cultivate Elevate, Matt Roeske, 2024-02-11 -
Flawed reasoningEpidemiological data refutes the claim that polio is renamed to hide the disease and the polio vaccine doesn’t work
Claim:
Polio vaccine doesn’t work; India had no cases of non-polio paralysis until polio vaccine was introduced; polio was renamed to hide its existence
Source: Instagram, Jaclyn Simone, 2024-01-23 -
MisleadingClinical trials showed that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is safe; its side effects are mostly mild
Claim:
80% of people taking the Moderna vaccine had significant side effects; children in Sudan got polio from the polio vaccine
Source: The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan, 2021-02-10 -
InaccuratePolio vaccine plays a critical role in eradicating polio; polio is caused by a virus, not by DDT
Claim:
“Did vaccines get rid of polio? The answer is NO!”
Source: Instagram, Ty Bollinger, Rizza Islam, 2020-12-02 -
InaccurateAdequate immunization and improved sanitation together protect against infection from both wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus
Claim:
“UN Forced to Admit Gates-funded Vaccine is Causing Polio Outbreak in Africa“
Source: 21st Century Wire, Anonymous, 2020-09-04 -
InaccurateNo, an “FDA study” did not find that vaccines contain cancer-causing viruses
Claim:
The FDA study looked at vaccines that are made from living cells [...] oftentimes contaminated with hidden viral fragments which have the potential to cause cancer.
Source: Principia Scientific, Activist Post, Aaron Kesel, 2019-11-23 -
+1HighNew York Times accurately reports vaccine-derived polio outbreaks caused by low vaccine coverage
“The content of the article is correct: attenuated polio strain type 2 contained in the oral vaccine can – in very rare cases – mutate and cause disease in under-immunized persons. However it might be good to specify that if the vaccine coverage is good, this will not happen (so the vaccine coverage has to be maintained, since it has prevented 13 million cases since 2000, according to the WHO).”