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Matthew Perry died because of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Publisher’s rating: False
Psychiatric drugs cause mass shootings
Publisher’s rating: Science Doesn't Support Claim
Related reporting from KSUT/NPR says Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had claimed that psychiatric medications cause mass shootings, but that he made the claim “without any evidence.” The excerpt does not describe an investigation of particular shootings or provide data establishing that the medications caused them. It instead reports that psychiatrists view blaming the mental-health crisis on overmedicalization and medication overprescription as an oversimplification. The same report includes an important qualification: a federal health department letter acknowledged that psychiatric medications can be important or essential for some patients and may reduce symptoms, improve functioning, prevent relapse, and support recovery. This excerpt therefore supports the rating’s conclusion that the sweeping causal claim is not backed by the evidence described here; it does not establish that no individual medication can ever have harmful side effects.
Media outlets reported that the same boy died 3 times from the coronavirus, in 3 countries.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
“The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.”
Publisher’s rating: False
“Pfizer just got caught doing gain of function to mutate covid intentionally for vaccines.”
Publisher’s rating: False
On COVID-19 vaccines: “82% miscarriage rate among women who got the juice between 30 days and 20 weeks pregnant.”
Publisher’s rating: False
COVID-19 "is an act of biological and chemical warfare perpetrated on the human race."
Publisher’s rating: No Evidence
With COVID-19, vaccinated people "are the real threat to" unvaccinated people.
Publisher’s rating: False
Biden announces that the COVID vaccine is now being used to cure cancer
Publisher’s rating: Misleading
Says COVID-19 testing could be done with mouth swabs, so maybe deeper swabbing is “implanting something.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
Tuit del doctor Salemi, investigador del Conicet de Argentina, sobre el riesgo de la vacuna no probada
Publisher’s rating: Falso
"FDA director admits to historic number of adverse event reports about COVID vaccines."
Publisher’s rating: Out of Context
In the American Rescue Plan, “just about 1% of the money is for vaccines.”
Publisher’s rating: Mostly True
MMA fighter Victoria Lee died because of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Publisher’s rating: False
“Five million Americans infected by COVID-19. More than 170,000 Americans have died. By far the worst performance of any nation on Earth.”
Publisher’s rating: Not Worst Per Capita
Se hacen públicos documentos del Banco Mundial que indican que el Covid es un plan diseñado en 2018
Publisher’s rating: Falso
