Fact Check in December 2021

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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

• Fact Check: Study Does NOT Say Vaccinated People Are More Likely To Be Infected With COVID-19 Than Those Without The Shot
• Fact Check: BinaxNOW COVID Home Test Kit Is NOT For Use With Water
• Fact Check: ALDI Is NOT Doing A Giveaway On Facebook -- The Company Says 'It Is A Scam'
• Fact Check: There Is NO Evidence That Dick Cheney Got Arrested on Christmas Eve In 2021
• Fact Check: NO Evidence There's '7 Minutes Of Brain Activity Left' After Death
• Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Admit That COVID Tests Are Invalid
• Fact Check: IRS DOES Explain That People Who Steal Property Must Report It In Their Taxes

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

• Fact Check: Africa DID Have Half The COVID Deaths Of US In 2021, While Africa Has 4 Times The Population And Only 7% Vaccination Rate
• Fact Check: Prayer Request For Greg Comer Is NOT Current -- He Died In 2011
• Fact Check: NO Evidence We Can 'Eat Our Way Out Of This Pandemic' By Eating Leeks
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That Vaccines Cause Brain Damage
• Fact Check: Mafia Assassins Were NOT Sent To Rome To Avenge Pope Francis' 'Death' -- He Wasn't Killed

Monday, December 27, 2021

• Fact Check: Omicron Variant Is NOT Spreading Faster Than Any Other Virus In History - But It Is Close
• Fact Check: ICC Does NOT Have A 'Case' Before It Concerning Crimes Purportedly Related To COVID-19 -- It Has A Complaint
• Fact Check: COVID Testing Does NOT Instantly Detect Specific Variant -- Further Analysis Is Needed
• Fact Check: It Is NOT 'Odd' That COVID-19 Vaccine Was Developed So Quickly

Thursday, December 23, 2021

• Fact Check: Canada Did NOT Issue A List Of 18 Words Or Phrases That People Are No Longer Allowed To Say
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That Hydroxychloroquine Decalcifies The Pineal Gland
• Fact Check: WHO Director-General Did NOT Say Countries Are Giving COVID-19 Booster Shots To Kill Children
• Fact Check: 10,000 Medical Experts Did NOT Start Nuremberg 2 Trial Against World Leaders for Crimes Against Humanity
• Fact Check: Bee Sting To Penis CANNOT Permanently Enlarge It -- Post Is From A Humor Site

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

• Fact Check: NO Evidence That Garlic Relieves 'Pain In Ears' -- Doctor Says It Might Make Ear Infections Worse
• Fact Check: Military Did NOT Convict George W. Bush In Tribunal
• Fact Check: Cherry-Picked Snippet Of CNN's Dr. Leana Wen Does NOT Accurately Convey Her Advice About Masks As COVID-19 Protection
• Fact Check: Female Afghan Pilot Was NOT Stoned To Death In Public -- She's Alive And In The US
• Fact Check: Chef Jamie Oliver Did NOT Beat McDonald's In Legal Battle Over Processed Beef -- Not Used By McDonald's Since 2011
• Fact Check: Devils Tower Is NOT A Giant Silicon Tree Trunk -- It's A Rock Formed 50 Million Years Ago
• Fact Check: Statistic Does NOT Paint Complete Picture Of Risks Associated With COVID-19, Vaccines
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That 'A Christmas Carol' Character Made More Than Today's U.S. Minimum Wage Worker
• Fact Check: Vaccination Death Rate Is NOT 2.905% In FDA Data

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

• Fact Check: Canada's Data Do NOT Prove COVID-19 Vaccine Is Either A Failure Or That Omicron 'Preferentially Infects' The Vaccinated
• Fact Check: Bhopal Gas Leak Was NOT Unknown To American Public Before Present Day
• Fact Check: New 'Study' Does NOT Warn That COVID-19 Vaccines 'Dramatically Increase' Risk Of Heart Disease
• Fact Check: CDC Does NOT Admit Vaccinated Parents Are Killing Unvaccinated Kids
• Fact Check: Omicron Variant Is NOT Just Common Cold Or RSV Infection -- It's Separate And Unique
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Book About Omicron Variant Predates Existence of Omicron Variant
• Fact Check: Police CAN Search A Car For Just The Smell Of Pot -- But There Are Exceptions In Some States

Monday, December 20, 2021

• Fact Check: Sailors Aboard USS Constitution Did NOT Consume Volumes of Alcohol Reported In Old Story
• Fact Check: This Video Did NOT Prove SARS-CoV-2 Is A Bioweapon Nor That DARPA Funded Virus Gain-Of-Function Project
• Fact Check: COVID Vaccine Spike Proteins Do NOT Enter Cell Nuclei, Suppress DNA Repair Or Unleash Cancer, Immunodeficiency, Autoimmune Disorders Or Accelerated Aging
• Fact Check: Police Knocking At Wrong House Is NOT Real -- It's A Skit
• Fact Check: Misleading Statistic Says Vaccinated Make Up Four In Five COVID-19 Deaths In England
• Fact Check: CDC Did NOT Admit COVID-19 Vax Causes More Heart Inflammation Cases Than Previously Stated

Friday, December 17, 2021

• Fact Check: World Leaders Were NOT Photographed Meeting With Aliens
• Fact Check: 'Cabal Leaders' Did NOT Go To Antarctica To Surrender To Extraterrestrials & Earth Alliance
• Fact Check: The Salvation Army Did NOT Mandate Critical Race Theory Training
• Fact Check: The Number Of Registered Voters Is NOT Greater Than The Voting-Age Population In Sells, Arizona
• Fact Check: 'Early Warning' Cartoon With Pandemic Plot Was NOT Prediction From The Past

Thursday, December 16, 2021

• Fact Check: This Is NOT An X-Ray Of A 700-Pound Man -- It's A Digital Artist's Rendering
• Fact Check: Kamala Harris Did NOT Tweet Kyle Rittenhouse Should Be Jailed For Murder And His Instagram Account Taken Down
• Fact Check: List Of Dead Or Collapsed Athletes Not Clearly Linked To Vaccine
• Fact Check: IRS DOES Have Plan In Case Of Nuclear Bomb Explosion
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That 45,000 People Died From COVID-19 Vaccine
• Fact Check: Vaccines Do NOT Pose 7 Times Higher Death Risk Than COVID For People In 20s
• Fact Check: German Police Did NOT Arrest Man Dressed As Santa For No Mask -- He Refused To Show ID While Protesting At A Christmas Market
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That Mixing Grapefruit And Antidepressants Can Cause Fatal Overdose -- Combo MAY Cause Other Adverse Effects

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

• Fact Check: Air Force Colonel Joe Jackson Did NOT Die In 2020 Ignored -- He Died in 2019 Remembered By Hometown, Dept. of Defense
• Fact Check: Most Of 158,000 'Adverse Events' In Pfizer Data Common Side Effects, Not Deadly
• Fact Check: Trump's 'Rally' Did NOT Feature 'Only 5 People'
• Fact Check: FEMA Did NOT Arrive in Tornado-Stricken Kentucky With COVID-19 Vaccinations Instead Of Blankets, Food
• Fact Check: Fauci Did NOT 'Admit' That COVID-19 Vaccines May Make People Worse
• Fact Check: COVID Testing Definition Was NOT Changed To Find Millions Of New Omicron Cases
• Fact Check: ESPN Tweet Omits Context Of Noose In Wallace's NASCAR Stall -- It Was There Before Stall Was Wallace's

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

• Fact Check: Hospitalizations, Mortality Were NOT Cut In Half After Brazilian City Offered Ivermectin; City Officials Rebut Study
• Fact Check: There Are NOT Just 23,600 Planes On Earth
• Fact Check: 'Birds Aren't Real' Is NOT A Real Conspiracy -- It's A Parody Social Movement
• Fact Check: Video Game 'Omikron: The Nomad Soul' Was NOT Created By Bill Gates
• Fact Check: COVID-19 DID Kill Only 68 Children In 2020, But Chart Omits Context: Infected Children Host And Spread The Virus
• Fact Check: Stillbirths Are NOT Rampant Among Fully Vaccinated Mothers
• Fact Check: Giant Skeleton Image Is NOT Real -- It Was A Photoshop Contest Entry
• Fact Check: George W. Bush STILL Did NOT Appear Before A Military Tribunal

Monday, December 13, 2021

• Fact Check: Japan's Myocarditis Warnings NOT In Contrast To Worldwide COVID-19 Vaccines Warnings
• Fact Check: Story Of Bristol Zoo Parking Scam Is NOT Real -- It's A Myth
• Fact Check: Reba McEntire Did NOT Endorse CBD Gummies In August Video -- She Was Talking About COVID
• Fact Check: Mike Lindell Did NOT Give Closed-Door Testimonies Against Trump
• Fact Check: UNICEF, NHS, Others Did NOT Endorse Flyer With False Mask Information
• Fact Check: George W. Bush Did NOT Appear Before A Military Tribunal
• Fact Check: Whoopi NOT Suspended From The View For 2 Weeks for Refusing to Apologize To Kyle Rittenhouse

Friday, December 10, 2021

• Fact Check: BioNTech CEO Did NOT Refuse To 'Take The Jab'
• Fact Check: Video Presents NO Evidence Ivanka Trump Is Joining The Democrats To Run Against Her Dad
• Fact Check: Prime Minister of New Zealand Did NOT Appear On A Billboard Promoting A 'Christmas Booster'
• Fact Check: Begging After 'Accidents' Appear Fraudulent - Many Common Pictures, Stories, Different Bank Accounts
• Fact Check: Former President George W. Bush Was NOT Arrested On Veterans Day, Denied Tribunal Extension
• Fact Check: 60,000 Scientists Do NOT Call For End To Mass Vaccination
• Fact Check: Pfizer Scientists Did NOT Warn Of Weekly Vaccinations For The Omicron Variant
• Fact Check: German Police Did NOT Detain Elderly Woman For Not Showing Her Vaccine Passport -- She Refused To Show Her ID While Protesting

Thursday, December 9, 2021

• Fact Check: 91-Year-Old Woman Did NOT Give Birth, But Carried A Calcified Fetus For 60 Years
• Fact Check: Eating 200 Apple Seeds May NOT Cause Fatal Reaction -- There's No Exact Number
• Fact Check: You Can NOT Simply Declare Yourself Not A US Citizen To Avoid Income Taxes
• Fact Check: Vermont COVID Rate NOT Worst In U.S.
• Fact Check: Pilot Deaths Are NOT 'Up 1700% After Vax Mandates'
• Fact Check: Helicopter Crash Video Was NOT One That Killed General From India -- This Crash Is From Syria

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Indigenous Elder Being Forced Into Van For Violation of Australia's COVID-19 Vax Policies
• Fact Check: First Bible Printed In America Was Not Printed By Congress For Use In Public Schools
• Fact Check: Biden 'Fair Share' Clip Omits 'Not Being Gouged' From Gas Price Remarks
• Fact Check: NO Evidence That 5G Millimeter Waves Cause Health Problems In Humans
• Fact Check: Moderna Patent Does NOT Uncover 'Nanocensor' Contained In Its Vaccines
• Fact Check: New Variant of COVID-19 Is NOT 'cov-AIDS' And Does Not Contain HIV or AIDS
• Fact Check: Merriam-Webster Did NOT Change Definition Of 'Anti-Vaxxer' To Include Section About Mandates -- It Was Already There
• Fact Check: Picture Does NOT Show A German Mall Fencing Off The Unvaccinated -- Latvian Mall Fences Outlets By 'Epidemiological Conditions'

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

• Fact Check: European Union Chief Does NOT Call For Throwing Out Nuremberg Code (Which Is Not A Statute)
• Fact Check: Chris Cuomo Did NOT 'Elude Military Capture,' There Was No Dragnet
• Fact Check: Austrian Protests Against 'Health Dictatorship' Are NOT Accurately Represented With Captions And Photos In Online Posts
• Fact Check: River City California Dogs Do NOT Need To Wear Masks -- Joke Post From Satire Page
• Fact Check: Dandelion Root Does NOT Kill 98% Of Cancer Cells -- Lab Studies Only Show Its Potential

Monday, December 6, 2021

• Fact Check: Pfizer Did NOT Under-Report Deaths In Clinical Trial Of COVID-19 Vaccine -- Numbers Change As New Data Accumulate
• Fact Check: Travel Restrictions For Unvaccinated Did NOT Make It Impossible For Omicron Variant To Enter Australia
• Fact Check: Name For Omicron Variant Was NOT Devised To Produce Eye of Providence Symbol
• Fact Check: In Scotland, Fully Vaccinated ARE Nearly 9 In Every 10 COVID-19 Deaths -- But Simple Numbers Can Mislead
• Fact Check: Blood Clots And Heart Issues ARE Caused By Cold Weather And Stress
• Fact Check: Vice President Kamala Harris Did NOT Call Unvaccinated Americans 'Dirty Trump People'
• Fact Check: Arctic Ice Is NOT At New Record Maximum In 2021
• Fact Check: Phallic Donald Trump Christmas Card Is NOT Real
• Fact Check: New COVID Restrictions in Germany Do NOT Ban People With Disabilities From Society

Friday, December 3, 2021

• Fact Check: COVID-19 Vaccines Do NOT Contain Razorlike Graphene Nanoparticles That Are Killing Vaccinated Athletes
• Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Michigan School Shooter Pretending To Be A Sheriff
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Facebook Post About Forced Transgender Reassignment Of Teen Is True -- It's Fabricated By Troll Farm
• Fact Check: Pfizer Document Does NOT Say Thousands Were Killed By COVID-19 Shot In First Month
• Fact Check: Fully Vaccinated People Do NOT Make Up 40% Of COVID-19 Deaths In Maryland
• Fact Check: Forbes Article Did NOT Say COVID-19 Vaccines Directly Modify DNA -- Previous Title Of The Article Was Misinterpreted

Thursday, December 2, 2021

• Fact Check: Celebrity Photos and Names Used in Scam Ads on Facebook
• Fact Check: German Study Does NOT Show That Higher Vaccination Rate Results In Higher Excess Mortality
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Avocados Reduce Risk of Cervical Cancer Or 'Take 9 Months To Ripen'
• Fact Check: Astroworld Deaths NOT Caused By 'Graphene Oxide' In COVID-19 Vaccines That Caused 'Razor Blades' Blood

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

• Fact Check: Eating Cashews Does NOT Kill Bacteria
• Fact Check: NO Evidence Symptoms Of The Omicron Variant Used To Cover Up Effects of COVID Vaccines
• Fact Check: Japan Did NOT Endorse Ivermectin As COVID-19 Treatment -- Cases Plummeted For Another Reason
• Fact Check: Federal Magistrate Did NOT Approve $110 Million Defamation Suit Filed By Kyle Rittenhouse Against LeBron James
• Fact Check: Media Is NOT Barred From Covering Ghislaine Maxwell Trial
• Fact Check: U.S. Military Did NOT Arrest President Biden's Senior Advisor Mike Donilon
• Fact Check: Several Company Leaders, Public Figures Did NOT Resign On First Day Of Ghislaine Maxwell Trial -- Only Twitter CEO
• Fact Check: Drinks In Photos Do NOT Contain Sheep Feces -- This Taiwanese Treat Is Tapioca