Medical Archives

Can Losing Fingerprints Be a Side Effect of Chemotherapy? "Hand-foot syndrome" has an inconvenient and adverse effect on some patients.

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No, the Case of Paul Karason Wasn’t ‘Disinformation’ To Scare People Away from Using Colloidal Silver The substance has been promoted as an alternative health remedy, but there's no evidence it...

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No, Gorsuch Didn’t Say Flu Kills ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ Every Year What a difference a preposition can make.

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Did Pfizer CEO Say 2-Dose Vaccine Gives Little Protection Against COVID-19? Albert Bourla has been a frequent target of disinformation throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, which entered...

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Did Sotomayor Say 100K Children Are in Serious Condition with COVID? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor grossly overstated COVID-19 statistics during a hearing on the...

Correct Attribution

Do 75% of All Covid Deaths Involve People With 4 Comorbidities? Important context was edited out of a viral video featuring CDC director Rochelle Walensky.

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Did Betty White Say She Got COVID Booster 3 Days Before She Died? The rumor bubbled up out of nowhere on social media.

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Is Seasonal Flu More Deadly Than COVID-19? The real point is: Both diseases can kill. And experts warn we may be dealing...

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Is a Company Requiring Masks for Zoom Meetings? A fear of masks often manifests in one's inability to recognize satire.

Labeled Satire

No, 95% of Omicron Cases Are Not in Vaccinated People An incorrect figure that was later corrected was opportunistically spread by conspiratorial sources.

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Is ‘COVID’ an Acronym for COVID-19 Variants? While delta and omicron have made headlines, there have been more than a dozen COVID...

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Copypasta Falsely Claims Anesthesia May Kill Those Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Anesthesia was rumored to pose “a great hazard” and may cause a fully vaccinated person...

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