Did RT, a Russian state news organization, publish a headline saying that the plane whose crash killed Yevgheny Prigozhin was piloted by a person suffering "post-vaccine myocarditis"? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that RT ever
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Lead Stories→ Fact Check: World Health Organization Did NOT Say COVID-19 Vaccination Can Cause Multiple Sclerosis
Did the World Health Organization (WHO) say COVID-19 vaccination can cause multiple sclerosis? No, that's not true: WHO has not stated that COVID-19 vaccination can cause multiple sclerosis or any other serious chronic condition. The glob
Health Feedback→ Vitamin K shots are safe and polysorbate 80 isn’t poisonous, contrary to claim by Brandy Vaughan
REVIEW Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB) is a potentially fatal condition where the lack of vitamin K in newborns impairs blood clotting and causes hemorrhages. VKDB occurs in one in 60 to one in 250 newborns. Since the 1960s, newborns generally
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Bill Gates Did NOT Say People Resisting ‘mRNA Tsunami’ Will Be ‘Excluded From Society’ — Misattributed And Distorted Quote
Did Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates suggest on the social media platform X that people who resist a coming "mRNA tsunami" will be punished by exclusion from society? No, that's not true: There's no record the billionaire ever wrote it on
FactCheck.org→ No Support for Viral Claim That COVID-19 ‘Lockdowns’ Are Returning This Fall
SciCheck Digest The U.S. is seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases, so it may be prudent for people to wear masks when out in public and take a few extra precautions. But the government is not planning to implement mask mandates or “lockdowns,” des
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Vitamin K Shots Do NOT ‘Poison’ Babies — They Protect Newborns From Life-Threatening Events
Do vitamin K shots typically given to infants at birth put their lives at risk with excessive and unreasonable exposure to dangerous ingredients? No, that's not true: The claim is misleading about the properties of the additives and omits
FactCheck.org→ Conservative Posts Misrepresent Royalty Payments to Fauci and Collins
SciCheck Digest Documents show that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Francis Collins received 58 royalty payments from 2010 to 2021 for their research. Only three of the payments came in 2020 or 2021; the rest were made prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. But
FactCheck.org→ Online Videos Share Fabricated Story About FEMA and Marines on Maui
Quick Take The Federal Emergency Management Agency operates a Disaster Recovery Center on Maui and has approved $7 million in assistance to thousands of wildfire survivors. Online videos, however, are sharing a fabricated tale about FEMA’s op
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: German Government Does NOT Have Study Figures Showing Pfizer COVID Vaccine Safer Than Placebo — But Shot Still Safe, Effective
Does the German government have study figures that show people given the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty) "have overall suffered from fewer medically undesirable events as subjects who received the placebo"? No, that's not true: As of
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Full Fact→ ONS data shows lower death rates in people vaccinated against Covid-19
A video from the US is circulating on social media again, claiming that mortality data in the UK shows Covid-19 vaccines to cause a large increase in deaths. This is not what the data shows.
Health Feedback→ Conspiracy theory about the deaths of alternative medicine practitioners ignores evidence, misrepresents certain doctors
REVIEW A TikTok video published in early July 2023 implied that doctors practicing alternative medicine were killed to prevent “Big Pharma” from losing money. In the reel, herbalist Katryna Benson, who has more than 14,000 followers on TikTok, p
FactCheck.org→ Injection Protects Babies from RSV Hospitalization, Has Not Been Linked to Deaths
SciCheck Digest Each year, respiratory syncytial virus hospitalizes 58,000 to 80,000 children under age 5 in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved an antibody injection for babies to protect them during the RSV season. There i
Health Feedback→ England mortality data shows a lower COVID-19 mortality risk among vaccinated people compared to unvaccinated ones, contrary to claim by Slay News
REVIEW Large clinical trials and post-marketing real-world data showed that COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing severe forms of the disease[1-5]. Despite this evidence, there have been misleading claims that the higher number of COVID-19 d
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: John D. Rockefeller Was NOT Responsible For Widespread Arrests Of Alternative Medicine Supporters
Did oil tycoon and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller act as a driving force behind arrests of those who supported alternative medicine? No, that's not true: Although Rockefeller's foundation financially backed medical education changes i
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccine-Related ‘Turbo Cancers’ Are NOT Real — Thus NOT ‘Contagious’ Or ‘Behaving Like A Bioweapon’
Are COVID-19 vaccine-related "turbo cancers" real? Are they also "contagious" and "behaving like a bioweapon"? No, that's not true: There is no serious evidence for the claim that COVID vaccines cause "turbo cancers." Cancer is complex an
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Babies DO Need Hepatitis B Vaccine — Not Just ‘Hookers & Drug Users’
Do babies not need the hepatitis B vaccine because it was only created for "hookers & drug users" and are babies being used by the pharmaceutical companies to mitigate losses? No, that's not true: There are legitimate reasons for babi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Nattokinase NOT A Proven COVID ‘Spike Protein Detox’ NOR Has US Even Set Dosages — It’s A Food Supplement
Is nattokinase an effective treatment for "spike protein detox" associated with COVID-19 vaccines? No, that's not true: COVID vaccines are not shown to be toxic, so it is not necessary to "detox" from them. Nattokinase is a soybean supple
FactCheck.org→ Posts Exaggerate Significance of Swiss Study on Heart Risk and COVID-19 Vaccination
SciCheck Digest A Swiss study found that after a COVID-19 booster, less than 3% of people briefly had a slightly elevated blood level of a protein that can be a marker of heart injury. No one in the study had any serious heart damage, and other exp
FactCheck.org→ RFK Jr.’s COVID-19 Deceptions
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s battle against vaccines — and against the institutions that promote them — goes back to at least the mid-2000s, as we explain in the first article of this series. But the arrival of COVID-19 gave the environme
Health Feedback→ Testimony by Steve Kirsch on the alleged harms of vaccination relies on flawed, biased analyses
REVIEW Vaccines protect against potentially life-threatening infectious diseases. Thanks to vaccination, some infections, like smallpox and polio, that took more than 400 million lives globally and disabled many others are now eradicated or signific
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Was NOT Arrested By US Marines On August 7, 2023
Did U.S. Marines arrest Albert Bourla, the CEO of the biopharmaceutical company Pfizer, on August 7, 2023? No, that's not true: There is no evidence that Bourla was arrested, and Pfizer confirmed that it didn't happen. The claim started o
FactCheck.org→ What RFK Jr. Gets Wrong About Autism
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes a variety of incorrect or misleading claims about vaccines, COVID-19 and other health-related topics, as we discuss in other articles in this series. But his views on vaccines rose to prominence when he began to advance the
Truth or Fiction?→ Despite Being Rebutted on ‘Ignoring’ COVID-19, Dr. Ashish Jha Still Won’t Talk About Masks
In the wake of stating that most Americans can “ignore” COVID-19 and a public rebuttal by former Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams, the former head of federal response to the disease has refused to mention masking as a way to avoid possible
FactCheck.org→ FactChecking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no stranger to FactCheck.org. He is a prominent anti-vaccine advocate who has been on our radar for years, primarily as the founder of Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit that spreads anti-vaccine misinformation.
Health Feedback→ Swiss study doesn’t show that Moderna COVID-19 mRNA vaccine is dangerous for the heart, John Campbell and The Gateway Pundit exaggerated the study’s conclusions
REVIEW A research team led by cardiologist Christian Mueller published a study in July 2023 investigating the effects of the Moderna mRNA COVID-19 booster vaccination on the heart[1]. Soon after the study’s publication, posts on social media circu
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: NO Evidence Family Said J&J Executive’s Child ‘Died Suddenly’ After Getting A Vaccine
Did the family of 10-year-old Kelsey Morand, who died in Princeton, New Jersey, in July 2023, confirm that her death happened after vaccination? No, that's not true: Publicly available reliable sources do not mention any vaccination recor
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Study Does NOT Show ‘Vast Majority Of Humanity’ Vaccinated For COVID-19 By ‘Shedding’ Of Vaccine From Vaccinated To Unvaccinated
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
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.