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Is a New 'Disease X' Pandemic on the Horizon?
Written by:
Jack Izzo
Jan. 15, 2024
For what it's worth, it doesn't actually exist (yet).
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Was AIDS Created by the CIA?
Written by:
Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
June 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
March 5, 2003
Was AIDS created by the CIA?
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Bananas and Flesh-Eating Disease
Written by:
David Mikkelson
June 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
Sept. 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
July 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
April 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
March 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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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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