Vaccines

Fact checks addressing conspiracy theories and unreliable health advice relating to vaccines

29 May 2025

Can vitamin A ‘prevent and treat’ measles?

We look at a misleading claim in an Instagram video about vitamin A and measles.

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15 May 2025

No, the US Supreme Court has not ruled that Covid vaccines are ‘not vaccines’

Familiar misinformation about Covid vaccines being gene therapy is circulating again.

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3 April 2025

No, mRNA vaccines don’t ‘genetically alter humanity’

Familiar vaccine misinformation resurfaces in a Facebook video, which claims that mRNA vaccines change people’s genes. There is no factual basis for this claim.

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21 February 2025

A Covid vaccine made with HIV protein was trialled but never rolled out

A viral clip from a BBC documentary shows that an HIV protein was used in a Covid vaccine trial, but fails to mention the vaccine itself was scrapped soon afterwards.

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10 February 2025

Bill Gates did not write an article about using ‘forced vaccines’ for depopulation

We can find no evidence that Mr Gates has written or said anything about reducing the population with forced vaccines.

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3 October 2024

Childhood vaccines aren’t ‘poison’

Despite claims on social media, vaccines are generally a safe and effective way to protect children from potentially fatal diseases.

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20 August 2024

Mpox isn’t in the Covid vaccine

Mpox is not an ingredient in AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine.

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16 August 2024

Mpox has nothing to do with the Covid-19 vaccines

Mpox is caused by the monkeypox virus. It is not a side effect of vaccination.

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15 August 2024

Vaccines are not ‘poison’

Vaccines are tested and monitored to a much higher standard than most other medicines.

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31 July 2024

Study does not show that the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine causes cancer

An online post claims that a study has shown that the Pfizer vaccine causes cancer. That’s not the case.

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