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It is not true that Japan has the lowest infant mortality rate in the world while the US has the highest, or that Japan does not vaccinate children under two. Read
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Maria Caulfield told Parliament that an ambulance service support contract was “procured”—not that “we are procuring” it, as she later claimed. NHS England says this contract has not yet been awarded. Read
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This claim is based on a survey which is unlikely to be representative of the US population. Read
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An article from the misinformation site, the Exposé, is full of false information about fertility, based on misrepresented science. Read
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A collection of articles reporting on possible links between certain factors and heart attacks do not show “you can’t do anything without risking a heart attack”. Read
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We looked into the government’s claim that it would build 48 new hospitals by 2030 after the National Audit Office said it would review the policy. Read
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A video on Instagram falsely claims that microwave ovens destroy all the nutritional value in food and turn it into a “toxin”. Read
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There’s no evidence the vaccines affect fertility. Read
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Certain measures of male fertility in sperm donors was found to temporarily drop between 2.5 and five months after vaccination. Read
Claims that cases of sudden, unexpected deaths are actually the result of Covid-19 vaccines are unevidenced. Nor is there currently any evidence that these deaths have become more common in the UK. Read
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