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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Está demostrado que las mascarillas son “peligrosas”, “inefectivas” y que causan “deformidades faciales”.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.”
Publisher’s rating: True
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says giving Motrin and Robitussin together can cause heart attacks in children.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“The average American has anywhere from 5 to 15 pounds” of stool stuck in their gut.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Video confirms Pfizer’s CEO is “reptilian.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“CDC Director Robert Redfield says healthy people should NOT wear masks.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“I saw a credible estimate of something like 17 million deaths globally from this technology,” referring to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"This particular pandemic is one where I don’t think nationwide, there’s been a single fatality under 25."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Chris Christie is in ICU and reported to be put on a ventilator.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Medicare for All will save the average American substantial sums of money on his or her health care bill.
Publisher’s rating: Lacks solid numbers
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says "the coronavirus was engineered by scientists in a lab."
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Review article "has found that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could aid cancer development”
Publisher’s rating: False
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“There’s also the preexisting immunity [to COVID-19] of those who have cross-reactivity, which is about a third of the public in many estimates.”
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
COVID-19 vaccines could cause men to become "impotent."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"COVID-19 Jab: They skipped all animal trials because all animals were dying and went directly to people."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Says a "Clorox bottle claimed it could kill (the 2019 coronavirus)... before it was developed."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“80% of women who have been jabbed have lost their children in the first trimester.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“¡JAPÓN rechaza donaciones de sangre de quien haya recibido vacuna/s! Wow… ¡¿Qué le dice eso?!”
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Un tribunal portugués levanta el confinamiento porque las pruebas PCR no son fiables y declara ilegales los test PCR
Publisher’s rating: Falso