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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on November 17, 2025 in remarks at George Washington University “We’re not cutting science. We’re not cutting research.” Hakeem Jeffries stated on September 24, 2025 in remarks to reporters "Republicans have effectively ended medical research in the United States of America." Social Media stated on July 5, 2025 in posts on social media The Rainmaker Technology Corp.’s cloud seeding caused the July 4 flooding in Texas. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on May 14, 2025 in Senate testimony It’s “all true” that the measles vaccine wanes quickly, was never fully safety tested and contains fetal debris. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 29, 2025 in a town hall event DARPA is spraying the skies with chemicals that are in jet fuel. Facebook posts stated on February 21, 2025 in Facebook posts Photos show Elon Musk in a fight during a science conference. Nancy Mace stated on February 20, 2025 in an X post “You either have XX or XY chromosomes. Those are the options.” X posts stated on January 21, 2025 in a post “Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female.” Instagram posts stated on December 13, 2024 in an Instagram post RFK Jr. posted on X that, “Effective January 20th, all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) will be BANNED in the United States.” Marjorie Taylor Greene stated on October 7, 2024 in a post on X Patents dating back to the 1800s show that people can control the weather. X posts stated on September 29, 2024 in X posts A biolab caught fire in Georgia right before the 2024 election. Facebook posts stated on September 20, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook Bill Gates dijo que "estamos tomando cosas que son ya sabes organismos genéticamente modificados y los estamos inyectando en los brazos de niños pequeños" en el contexto de las vacunas. Instagram posts stated on June 18, 2024 in an Instagram post The Gates Foundation “awarded $9.5 million to UW-Madison to make H5N1 bird flu transmissible to humans.” Threads posts stated on June 18, 2024 in a post CERN scientists admit they “accidentally” ended the world in 2012 while performing experiments into the Higgs boson particle. Facebook posts stated on May 20, 2024 in a video Footage “shows a completely flat horizon proving the flat Earth and completely destroying the globe theory.” Instagram posts stated on May 12, 2024 in an Instagram post Bird flu in the U.S. is a "scamdemic" timed to coincide with the 2024 presidential elections “by design.” Tucker Carlson stated on May 9, 2024 in an Instagram post Lyme disease became endemic because of U.S. government bioweapons labs. Facebook posts stated on April 6, 2024 in a Facebook reel There are no real pictures of satellites on Google Images because outer space is not real. Instagram posts stated on April 14, 2024 in an Instagram post Videos show “how they celebrated the CERN opening.” Facebook posts stated on March 29, 2024 in a Facebook post CERN’s activation of its Large Hadron Collider is connected to the April 8 eclipse. Load more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on November 17, 2025 in remarks at George Washington University “We’re not cutting science. We’re not cutting research.”
Hakeem Jeffries stated on September 24, 2025 in remarks to reporters "Republicans have effectively ended medical research in the United States of America."
Social Media stated on July 5, 2025 in posts on social media The Rainmaker Technology Corp.’s cloud seeding caused the July 4 flooding in Texas.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on May 14, 2025 in Senate testimony It’s “all true” that the measles vaccine wanes quickly, was never fully safety tested and contains fetal debris.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on April 29, 2025 in a town hall event DARPA is spraying the skies with chemicals that are in jet fuel.
Facebook posts stated on February 21, 2025 in Facebook posts Photos show Elon Musk in a fight during a science conference.
Nancy Mace stated on February 20, 2025 in an X post “You either have XX or XY chromosomes. Those are the options.”
X posts stated on January 21, 2025 in a post “Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female.”
Instagram posts stated on December 13, 2024 in an Instagram post RFK Jr. posted on X that, “Effective January 20th, all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) will be BANNED in the United States.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene stated on October 7, 2024 in a post on X Patents dating back to the 1800s show that people can control the weather.
X posts stated on September 29, 2024 in X posts A biolab caught fire in Georgia right before the 2024 election.
Facebook posts stated on September 20, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook Bill Gates dijo que "estamos tomando cosas que son ya sabes organismos genéticamente modificados y los estamos inyectando en los brazos de niños pequeños" en el contexto de las vacunas.
Instagram posts stated on June 18, 2024 in an Instagram post The Gates Foundation “awarded $9.5 million to UW-Madison to make H5N1 bird flu transmissible to humans.”
Threads posts stated on June 18, 2024 in a post CERN scientists admit they “accidentally” ended the world in 2012 while performing experiments into the Higgs boson particle.
Facebook posts stated on May 20, 2024 in a video Footage “shows a completely flat horizon proving the flat Earth and completely destroying the globe theory.”
Instagram posts stated on May 12, 2024 in an Instagram post Bird flu in the U.S. is a "scamdemic" timed to coincide with the 2024 presidential elections “by design.”
Tucker Carlson stated on May 9, 2024 in an Instagram post Lyme disease became endemic because of U.S. government bioweapons labs.
Facebook posts stated on April 6, 2024 in a Facebook reel There are no real pictures of satellites on Google Images because outer space is not real.
Instagram posts stated on April 14, 2024 in an Instagram post Videos show “how they celebrated the CERN opening.”
Facebook posts stated on March 29, 2024 in a Facebook post CERN’s activation of its Large Hadron Collider is connected to the April 8 eclipse.
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