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Celine Gounder stated on February 03, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"Measles is one of the most common causes of child blindness worldwide."

By Katie Sanders• February 4, 2015

Ben Carson stated on September 16, 2015 in the second GOP debate:

There are a "multitude" of vaccines that do not prevent deadly and crippling diseases.

By April Hunt• September 23, 2015

Bloggers stated on March 06, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Worldwide data has confirmed the vaccinated are developing COVID vaccine-induced Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• March 8, 2022

Public Citizen stated on June 29, 2020 in a tweet:

“Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug ( remdesivir)."

By Madeline Heim• July 23, 2020

Instagram posts stated on February 04, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Paper shows “mRNA COVID-19 vaccines caused more deaths” than lives saved.

By Sara Swann• February 9, 2024

Facebook posts stated on May 05, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says six eradicated diseases such as whooping cough and the bubonic plague are making a comeback "thanks to refugees and illegal immigrants."

By Samantha Putterman• June 10, 2019

Nick Seymour stated on January 07, 2017 in an op-ed:

Tuberculosis recently passed "HIV/AIDS as the leading infectious killer globally."

By Jon Greenberg• January 11, 2017

Facebook posts stated on March 23, 2021 in a post on Facebook:

“In a vegan world there would be no pandemics. 100% of pandemics are zoonotic in origin.”

By Michael Majchrowicz• March 29, 2021

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on March 04, 2025 in a Fox Nation interview:

“A lot of studies” show that getting measles "boosts your immune system later in life against cancers, atopic diseases, cardiac disease."

By Jeff Cercone• March 19, 2025

Phil McGraw stated on April 16, 2020 in a Fox News appearance:

There are “360,000 (deaths) a year from swimming pools. But we don’t shut the country down for that.”

By Bill McCarthy• April 17, 2020

Glenn Beck stated on October 08, 2009 in his radio program.:

"You don't know if this (the H1N1 vaccine) is gonna cause neurological damage like it did in the 1970s."

By Robert Farley• October 14, 2009

Facebook posts stated on March 24, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says a pandemic occurs exactly every 100 years.

By Tom Kertscher• April 9, 2020

Facebook posts stated on July 08, 2020 in on social media:

Only 56 coronavirus deaths a day was enough to collapse the world economy, even though thousands of people die daily from tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and other diseases.

By Louis Jacobson• July 15, 2020

Viral image stated on March 10, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Harvard scientists say the coronavirus is “spreading so fast that it will infect 70% of humanity this year.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• March 11, 2020

Instagram posts stated on March 02, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“The CDC officially agrees with ‘conspiracy theorists’ from 2020” who wanted to treat COVID-19 like the flu.

By Jeff Cercone• March 8, 2024

Kari Lake stated on October 19, 2022 in a tweet:

The COVID-19 vaccine for children is proving to be “not only ineffective, it’s also proving to be dangerous.”

By Alexis Waiss• November 9, 2022

Instagram posts stated on March 15, 2020 in an image:

"COVID-19 started because we eat animals."

By Daniel Funke• March 18, 2020

Instagram posts stated on December 06, 2024 in an Instagram post:

"Vaccine researcher Peter Hotez says multiple viruses will be unleashed on America the day after Trump takes office."

By Jeff Cercone• December 6, 2024

Nancy Pelosi stated on October 05, 2009 in an interview on the Charlie Rose Show:

About 750,000 people die in China each year from auto emissions.

By Catharine Richert• October 8, 2009

Instagram posts stated on April 24, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“Face masks may raise risk of stillbirths, testicular dysfunction and cognitive decline, study warns.”

By Tom Kertscher• April 28, 2023

Fact-checking vaccines and measles

By Steve Contorno• February 13, 2015

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says a worm ate part of his brain. Experts said that’s unlikely.

By Loreben Tuquero• May 10, 2024

What to know about the CDC’s baseless new guidance on autism

By Arthur Allen• November 21, 2025

World Health Day: Who's leading the charge on TB research?

By Jon Greenberg• April 7, 2016

A new side effect of H1N1 virus: exaggeration

By Robert Farley• October 14, 2009

The COVID-19 pandemic is not over. How will we know when it is?

By Bill McCarthy• January 13, 2022

A Nobel Prize and a horse dewormer: Explaining the controversy over ivermectin and COVID-19

By Tom Kertscher• September 8, 2021

Understanding the scale of potential coronavirus deaths

By Louis Jacobson• April 3, 2020

Tuberculosis: A PolitiFact Sheet

By Marta Cerava• June 1, 2016

What we know about the COVID-19 variants and how they impact vaccine efficacy

By Samantha Putterman• February 3, 2021

How close is a coronavirus vaccine?

By Louis Jacobson• May 12, 2020

5 facts about vaccines

By John Kruzel• November 1, 2019

What is Disease X? How conspiracy theorists hijacked pandemic preparedness

By Sara Swann• August 10, 2023

A parent’s guide to measles: What to look for and how to prevent infection

By Grace Abels• January 30, 2026

Is a second wave of coronavirus coming?

By Louis Jacobson• June 22, 2020

No evidence government-funded AIDS clinical trials caused foster children deaths in New York

By Samantha Putterman• December 21, 2021

Rand Paul on 'walking, talking' children who end up with 'profound mental disorders after vaccines'

By Steve Contorno• February 5, 2015

The data gaps in the fight against COVID-19: Experts point out what we still don’t know

By Daniel Funke, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson• February 3, 2021

PunditFact fact-checks the Oct. 19 news shows

By Lauren Carroll, Jon Greenberg, Aaron Sharockman• October 19, 2014

Fact-checking the Oct. 19 news shows