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PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Magic Johnson tested positive for HIV "because Fauci’s gain of function study used a contaminated Hepatitis B vaccine."
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
FactStreamHealth & medicine
Los CDC “oficialmente recomiendan la administración de ivermectina como terapia presuntiva (dar medicamentos sin diagnóstico) para los refugiados”.
Publisher’s rating: No toda la historia
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"920 Women Lose Their Unborn Babies After Getting Vaccinated."
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts
Maldita.esHealth & medicine
Entrevista al nanopatólogo Stefano Montanari en la que dice que las mascarillas causan hipercapnia
Publisher’s rating: Falso
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Bill Gates is behind the five recent cases of malaria in the United States.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“Cannabis may stop coronavirus from infecting people, study finds.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
"I don't think it's going way out on a limb to draw the connection then between cannabis use, particularly I assume chronic use, and acts of violence."
Publisher’s rating: Heavily disputed
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded a contract for COVID-19 research in Ukraine months before the virus was known.
Publisher’s rating: False
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FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Legally, all those people giving [COVID-19] vaccinations are war criminals.”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
“JAPAN refuses blood donations from any who received shot/s! Wow… What’s that tell you?!”
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“The CDC can detain anyone with a fever — indefinitely. … Vaccination (is) a way people could get out of detention.”
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Video muestra al Dr. Jorge Bayter promoviendo un medicamento para curar la hipertensión.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Sen. Dianne Feinstein tweeted about getting COVID-19 and flu vaccines days before her death.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
“The (corona)virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Well, the biggest group in most states are African Americans who have not been vaccinated."
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
"Dr. Fauci Admits That Covid Vaccines May Actually Make People ‘Worse’: 'It Would Not Be The First Time'"
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
PolitiFactHealth & medicine
Joe Diffie’s death was labeled “as a COVID-19 death and it wasn’t!”
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
A study testing COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant rats supports the idea that "vaccines and autism have always been linked." False.
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgHealth & medicine
Boston University combined two strains of the virus that causes COVID-19 "to create a supervirus that kills 80% of mice."
Publisher’s rating: Distorts the Facts