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Conservative Woman article falsely claims vaccines don’t work
Claims that natural immunity is ‘complete’ and vaccines are ‘obsolete’ are completely false. Read
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Samaritans doesn't have a text number anymore
A post on Facebook shares out-of-date information about contacting the charity. Read
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No evidence of ‘nanobots’ in Covid-19 test swabs
The claim follows other misinformation that parasites and nanoparticles are in the swabs. Read
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Covid variants weren’t planned
A TikTok video falsely claims the variants of Covid-19 were “made up”. Read
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PCR tests are not ‘a fraud’
An interview with Kary B Mullis seems to have been taken out of context. PCR tests detect viral genetic material and are very accurate. Read
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Post makes misleading claims about Covid vaccines and animal trials
Animals used in clinical trials are usually euthanised so scientists can examine their organs. Read
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Grant Shapps misspoke about double vaccinated people on BBC Breakfast
Rather than saying that double vaccinated people are much less likely to get and carry coronavirus, which is true, he mistakenly said that they were more likely. Read
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The Pfizer vaccine, teenagers and myocarditis
There were just under 400 reported cases of myocarditis, none of them fatal, after 8.9 million teens were vaccinated in the US. Read
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Reported study doesn’t talk about Alzheimer’s
It was research into the impact of dietary intake of flavonoids on subjective cognitive decline. Read
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Abortion rate lower than claimed as miscarriages not factored in
ONS data claims one in four pregnancies end in abortion, but this doesn’t count pregnancies which end in miscarriage. Read
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