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A Black person holds a red sign with white letters that say "END THE AIDS EPIDEMIC."

Was AIDS Created by the CIA?

Written by:
Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
Jun 13, 2023
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Is Tetanus Vaccine Spiked with Sterilization Chemicals?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Nov 9, 2014 Catholic bishops in Kenya asserted that a tetanus vaccine campaign was really a secret effort to ...
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AIDS Created by the CIA?

Written by:
Barbara Mikkelson
Mar 5, 2003 Was AIDS created by the CIA?
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Bananas and Flesh-Eating Disease

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Jun 25, 2001 Are bananas from South Africa or Costa Rica infecting consumers with flesh-eating disease?
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Is There a 'New Outbreak' of HPV That 'Kills Faster than AIDS'?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Nov 27, 2017 A fabricated health scare that originated in Africa got a new lease on life in November 2017.
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Florida Governor's Wife Has Zika Mosquito Spray Business

Written by:
Brooke Binkowski
Sep 8, 2016 Ann Scott doesn't own a mosquito spraying business, but she does have a large financial stake in ...
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Catching Sexually Transmitted Diseases While Tanning

Written by:
Brooke Binkowski
Jul 18, 2016 Despite a proliferation of scary articles, the likelihood of getting herpes from a tanning bed i ...
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Italian Doctor Finds Surprisingly Simple Cure for Multiple Sclerosis?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Apr 27, 2016 Long-debunked claims from 2009 about a novel approach to Multiple Sclerosis were misleadingly pr ...
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Mastoiditis

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Mar 30, 2015 Rumor: Parents should watch for signs of mastoiditis after their children develop ear infections.
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CDC Recommends Mothers Stop Breastfeeding to Boost Vaccine Efficacy?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Jan 19, 2015 Rumor: The CDC has recommended that mothers stop breastfeeding in order to increase vaccine effi ...
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Stanford University Has Discovered an Alzheimer's Cure?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Jan 14, 2015 Rumor: Researchers at Stanford University have found a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
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CDC Issues Flu Vaccine Apology

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Dec 5, 2014 Did the CDC issue an apology and state that the 2014-15 flu vaccine doesn't work?
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Did a Johns Hopkins Scientist Expose Flu Vaccine Dangers?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
Oct 22, 2014 An anthropologist (not a doctor) penned a non-peer reviewed piece arguing that flu vaccination b ...
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Ebola Still Isn't Airborne

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Oct 16, 2014 Despite the recent wave of reports, researchers at CIDRAP have not confirmed that 'Ebola is now ...
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Is Ebola Now Airborne?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Oct 9, 2014 Have the CDC and CIDREP admitted that Ebola is now airborne?
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Fraud at the CDC Uncovered?

Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Aug 25, 2014 The claim put forward in a video is that earlier MMR vaccination is associated with an increase ...
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Cell Phones in Bras Cause Breast Cancer?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
May 29, 2013 Rumor: A woman contracted breast cancer from carrying a cell phone in her bra.
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Graviola Cancer Cure

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Oct 2, 2012 Is the fruit from the graviola tree a miraculous natural cancer cell killer?
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Coconuts next to a jar of coconut oil.

Coconut Oil As a Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Feb 2, 2012 There are plausible mechanisms behind the notion that coconut oil could help with Alzheimer's, b ...
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Do Lemons Cure Cancer?

Written by:
David Mikkelson
Apr 17, 2011 Claims that lemons "kill cancer cells" and are "10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy" are uns ...
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