Does a study by University of Colorado medical researchers show that the "vast majority of humanity has gotten the COVID-19 vaccine via "shedding," meaning the vaccine spread from person to person? No, that's not true: The study's lead au
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Full Fact→ Florida is not banning Covid-19 jabs for being bioweapons
A Florida Republican group has agreed to send a letter to state officials asking for Covid vaccines to be banned, but this does not appear to have any legal power to enact a ban in the state.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Doctor Did NOT Represent World Health Organization At COVID Summit In Brussels — She Was Criticizing WHO
Did Dr. Meryl Nass represent the World Health Organization (WHO) at a press conference, boldly outlining plans to ignore existing human rights laws? No, that's not true: Nass does not speak for the WHO. She is an internal medicine doctor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: US Doctor Did NOT Represent World Health Organization At COVID Summit In Brussels — She Was Criticizing WHO
Did Dr. Meryl Nass represent the World Health Organization (WHO) at a press conference, boldly outlining plans to ignore existing human rights laws? No, that's not true: Nass does not speak for the WHO. She is an internal medicine doctor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Proven Link Between ‘Athlete Cardiac Arrests’ And COVID-19 Vaccine — Many Non-Cardiac, Non-Vaccine-Related Cases Cited In Goodsciencing List
Does a social media post listing "1,884 Athlete Cardiac Arrests" and 1,310 deaths between January 2021 and July 2023 prove a connection between these mishaps and the COVID-19 vaccine? No, that's not true: While the ultimate source of the
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Ditch the detox. The spike proteins produced from COVID-19 vaccination aren’t toxins.
People who received COVID-19 vaccines can “detoxify” their bodies from the spike protein.
Health Feedback→ WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is vaccinated against COVID-19, contrary to edited video claiming otherwise
REVIEW Since the onset of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, several inaccurate claims have circulated that individuals directly or indirectly connected to the global vaccination effort avoided receiving their own doses. This is the case for instanc
Health Feedback→ Pfizer documents misrepresented to spread the false claim that the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine contains graphene oxide
REVIEW On 15 July 2023, the davidicke.com website published an article claiming that Pfizer admitted to its COVID-19 vaccine containing graphene oxide, a “highly toxic and conductive substance”. This claim originates from documents released by t
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video, Swiss Study Do NOT Prove 1 In 35 Given COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Develop Heart Injury
Did one in every 35 people who received a Moderna COVID-19 mRNA-1273 booster vaccination suffer myocardial injury? No, that's not true: There is no reliable evidence or data to support this claim. Such a high rate of adverse reactions wou
PolitiFact→ How health incidents like Bronny James’ cardiac arrest fuel COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
When Bronny James suffered cardiac arrest, Elon Musk and others suggested without evidence that COVID-19 vaccines were the cause. It’s a longtime trend in anti-vaccine disinformation.
Health Feedback→ Claim by Brian Hooker that unvaccinated children are healthier compared to vaccinated children relies on flawed studies
REVIEW On 7 July 2023, the anti-vaccine organization Children’s Health Defense (CHD) published a video of an interview with chemical engineer Brian Hooker, offering a sneak peek into Hooker’s upcoming book “Vax-Unvax: Let the Science Speak”,
Health Feedback→ The commercially available Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is safe and was tested on more than 250 people, contrary to claim by statistician Christine Cotton
REVIEW A 2020 clinical trial on more than 43,000 participants showed that the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had a 95% efficacy at preventing symptomatic forms of the disease[1]. The positive result led to the vaccine authorization both in th
Full Fact→ Amish people do get vaccinated
False social media claims link Amish lifestyles to the absence of diseases. Amish people do use vaccines and GMOs, and they do also have conditions like autism and SIDS.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence World Economic Forum Launched ‘Mark of the Beast’ CBDC Microchip That Will ‘End Gun Ownership in America’
Did the World Economic Forum introduce a "mark of the beast" CBDC microchip to "end gun ownership" in the United States? No, that's not true: The United States hasn't announced the implementation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC)
FactCheck.org→ False Claim About Cause of Autism Highlighted on Pennsylvania Senate Panel
SciCheck Digest Studies have found the rate of autism is the same in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. But the false claim that vaccines are associated with the disorder persists. A prominent spreader of COVID-19 misinformation&n
ABC News / AP Fact Check→ NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts: A North Carolina Pfizer plant damaged by a tornado wasn't storing COVID-19 vaccines.
Health Feedback→ Claim that a mouse study shows COVID-19 vaccine causes “turbo cancer” distorts study findings
REVIEW On 13 July 2023, the website The Florida Standard published an article carrying the headline “New Study Links Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine to ‘Turbo Cancer’”. Screenshots of the article’s headline circulated on social media in July 2023
Climate Feedback→ Authorities undertaking climate action targeted by viral “Climate lockdowns” narrative on social media
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, long before vaccines became available, many countries acted to curb the spread of the virus by imposing restrictions on people’s movement called lockdowns. Lockdowns have saved lives by reducing the physica
Health Feedback→ Claim by Steve Kirsch that the Amish don’t experience autism, cancer, or high COVID-19 mortality because they don’t vaccinate is baseless
REVIEW As of 15 July 2023, COVID-19 caused more than one million deaths across the U.S. 69.5% of the total population have completed their primary vaccine series since the vaccination campaign began in December 2020, and statistical models estimated
Logically→ No, vaccinating chickens against the IB virus is not a plan to mass vaccinate humans
Logically→ No, vaccinating chickens against the IB virus is not a plan to mass vaccinate humans
Health Feedback→ Analysis of adverse event variation between Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine batches doesn’t indicate safety problems, contrary to claim by John Campbell
REVIEW On 5 July 2023, YouTuber and retired nurse instructor John Campbell published a YouTube video regarding findings published in a research letter by Schmeling et al. in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation[1]. In the video, which rece
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: New Study Does NOT Prove Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Induces ‘Turbo Cancer’
Does a new study prove that the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine causes "turbo cancer"? No, that's not true: The study cited in the social media post doesn't show that the Pfizer mRNA COVID-19 vaccine induces something called "turbo cancer."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A ‘Lancet Study’ Does NOT Show COVID Vaccine Caused 74% Of Deaths In Sample — Lancet Rejected Paper And Its Methods
Did a preprint paper submitted to The Lancet on July 5, 2023, find that 74 percent of the deaths in the autopsies it reviewed were caused by the COVID-19 vaccine? Additionally, was it also a legitimate study from The Lancet? No, neither i
Truth or Fiction?→ Federal Judge’s Ruling ‘Limits’ Biden Administration’s Contact with Social Media
On July 4 2023, a post to Reddit’s r/politics suggested that a federal judge had blocked the Biden administration from “communicating with social media companies”: Federal judge blocks Biden administration officials from co
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID Vaccine Did NOT Cause Breast Cancer Deaths In Young Women To Surge To 297,000 In 2023
Did COVID-19 vaccines cause a massive mortality spike in breast cancer female patients below the age of 45, reaching 297,000 deaths during the first six months of 2023? No, that's not true: Posts on social media distorted a report publish
PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Claim about breast cancer deaths wildly misstates American Cancer Society data
Video suggests COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for breast cancer deaths in women under age 45 rising from 26,000 in 2021 to 297,000 in 2023.
FactCheck.org→ TikTok Video Mangles American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Estimates
SciCheck Digest Breast cancer in younger women has been increasing gradually in recent decades. But a social media post misrepresents case number projections for 2022 and 2023 to falsely claim they show a dramatic rise in early-onset breast cancer
Health Feedback→ Breast cancer cases haven’t doubled in U.S. women under 45, despite social media claims
REVIEW A video that originated on TikTok and was widely shared on Facebook wrongly claimed that there was a spike in breast cancer cases in 2022. As this review will explain, the video misrepresented the data, and the change in the figure from previ
FactCheck.org→ Posts Make False Claim About Cause of Gender Dysphoria
SciCheck Digest Recent research suggests that gender dysphoria is likely caused by a combination of factors, including hormone exposure before birth. But social media posts make the baseless claim that it could be caused by a vaccine containing DNA
FactCheck.org→ Video: Q&A on the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
The federal public health emergency for COVID-19 ended on May 11, bringing changes to health care and public benefits. In this video, FactCheck.org teamed up with Factchequeado to answer some questions about how this might affect you. Th
FactCheck.org→ Video Distorts Early Coronavirus Research To Promote Baseless Bioweapon Conspiracy Theory
SciCheck Digest Human coronaviruses first identified in the 1960s cause common colds. But a viral video misrepresents early research on common coronaviruses and cites unrelated patents to falsely suggest U.S. scientists created the viruses that cau
Health Feedback→ There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccinations cause infertility or pregnancy complications
REVIEW On 30 May 2023, The Exposé published an article claiming that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) “admitted” that COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility, citing changes made by the EMA to COVID-19 vaccine guidance indicating that heavy mens
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Say ‘3 Billion People Need To Die’
Did Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates suggest that "3 billion people need to die"? No, that's not true: The claim on social media recycles unsupported speculations from 2019 based on a distorted quote taken out of context
Health Feedback→ Cleveland Clinic study didn’t find more COVID-19 vaccine doses causes increased COVID-19 risk; association alone doesn’t imply causation
REVIEW The claim that a Cleveland Clinic study found taking more COVID-19 vaccine doses increases a person’s risk of COVID-19 went viral in early June 2023. An article by the Gateway Pundit containing this claim received more than 5,800 engagement
FactCheck.org→ Instagram Post Misleads About Pfizer’s RSV Maternal Vaccine
SciCheck Digest Clinical trial data for Pfizer’s maternal vaccine to protect babies from RSV support the vaccine’s safety and efficacy, according to a vote by an FDA advisory committee. The FDA could soon approve the vaccine. But a popu
PolitiFact→ Viral image – How now downed cows? Cattle in video died from poisoning in Italy, not COVID-19 shots in U.S.
Video shows cattle killed by COVID-19 vaccines.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Cattle Did NOT Die As A Result Of COVID-19 Vaccine — They Were Poisoned By Grazing On Drought-Stressed Forage
Did a herd of cattle in northern Italy die within a day of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine injected by the government? No, that's not true: The herd was sickened by grazing on drought-stressed sorghum, Italian public television reported. The
PolitiFact→ Viral image – How now downed cows? Cattle in video died from poisoning in Italy, not COVID-19 shots in U.S.
Video shows cattle killed by COVID-19 vaccines.
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Chris Christie’s Presidential Announcement
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie kicked off his campaign for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination with a June 6 town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire. We fact-checked his remarks, which included false or misleading claims about former President