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False: Wearing face masks cause you to breathe in more carbon dioxide (CO2), and can negatively affect your health.
Health-General Health-Covid

False: Wearing face masks cause you to breathe in more carbon dioxide (CO2), and can negatively affect your health.
False: The herb artemisia absinthium can kill 98 percent of cancer cells in just 16 hours.
Health-General

False: The herb artemisia absinthium can kill 98 percent of cancer cells in just 16 hours.
False: Chlorine dioxide is an effective cure for COVID-19.
Health-General Health-Covid

False: Chlorine dioxide is an effective cure for COVID-19.
False: Drinking one's own urine can cure COVID-19.
Health-General Health-Covid

False: Drinking one's own urine can cure COVID-19.
Unverifiable: The use of face masks has a negative impact on a child's development.
Health-General Health-Covid

Unverifiable: The use of face masks has a negative impact on a child's development.
False: Pap smears cause HPV.
Health-General

False: Pap smears cause HPV.
Misleading: In India, expired Covaxin vials are being used to jab children above 15 years of age.
Health-General Health-Covid

Misleading: In India, expired Covaxin vials are being used to jab children above 15 years of age.
False: Citric acid is a toxin used to lower people's vitality.
Health-General

False: Citric acid is a toxin used to lower people's vitality.
False: Zoflora, a disinfectant, causes infertility in men.
Health-General Human Rights-Gender

False: Zoflora, a disinfectant, causes infertility in men.
False: Suramin, developed to treat African sleeping sickness, is a cure for autism spectrum disorder.
Health-General

False: Suramin, developed to treat African sleeping sickness, is a cure for autism spectrum disorder.
Partly_True: Amazon Alexa can guide you through emergency CPR in the event of a cardiac arrest in the household.
Health-General Tech-AI

Partly_True: Amazon Alexa can guide you through emergency CPR in the event of a cardiac arrest in the household.
Disabled government employees over the age of 50 are to be forcibly retired according to a new order passed by the Bihar government.
Health-General Politics-Policy

Disabled government employees over the age of 50 are to be forcibly retired according to a new order passed by the Bihar government.
Misleading: A woman based in New York lost custody of her child because she refused to wear a mask in public.
Health-General Events-General Health-Covid

Misleading: A woman based in New York lost custody of her child because she refused to wear a mask in public.
False: Dr. Fauci gains profits from pharmaceutical companies.
Health-General Conspiracies-General Health-Covid

False: Dr. Fauci gains profits from pharmaceutical companies.
False: Rising from bed too quickly at night can result in sudden death.
Health-General

False: Rising from bed too quickly at night can result in sudden death.
Misleading: 30,000 British pensioners freeze to death every year.
Health-General Health-Covid Tech-Social-Media

Misleading: 30,000 British pensioners freeze to death every year.
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