Anti-vaxxers' latest deflection from increasing measles cases: Saying that measles infections are actually beneficial and protect you from cancer (they don't.)
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Why We've Just Sued the Government
Statement by NewsGuard Co-CEOs Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz
February 6, 2026
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New from me in STAT: Many of the 1,000 false health claims debunked by NewsGuard have involved twisting legitimate research. Researchers need to push back — especially when HHS is misrepresenting your work.
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Anti-vaxxers falsely claimed that hepatitis B vaccination is only justified for "PROSTITUTES AND DRUG ADDICTS" in celebrating a CDC panel's move to no longer recommend the vaccine for newborns.
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The father of the vaccine-autism myth is back with a new report pushing the same false claim.
By counting studies of varying quality and methods as if they were equal, the report is like "a mountain of garbage," according to one expert. Read more here: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/claim-dism...
President Donald Trump’s pick for Surgeon General, Casey Means, has spread multiple provably false and potentially dangerous health claims — from the debunked myth that vaccines are linked to autism to the perilous claim that raw milk has health benefits.
Chemtrails still aren't real, even when there's a government shutdown.
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Conservative social media accounts are baselessly claiming that Tylenol overdoses among pregnant women are increasing because liberals are taking large amounts of the medication to spite President Donald Trump.
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In less than 24 hours, there were 38,000 posts on X mentioning both “Amish” and “no autism,” according to a social media analytics tool used by NewsGuard.
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The head of a new federal task force charged with reviewing the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has spread multiple false claims about the vaccines, including saying that the vaccines are responsible for an “unprecedented level of harm.”
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"According to misinformation tracker NewsGuard, the campaign...takes advantage of high-profile events to pump out fabricated content from various publications, including ABC News, BBC and most recently POLITICO."
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RFK Jr. justified canceling mRNA vaccine funding by saying COVID vaccines:
-"encourage new mutations"
-"don't perform well" against respiratory viruses
-"pose more risk benefits"
All of those claims are false. More in NewsGuard's latest Reality Check: www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/rfk-jr-cit...
NewGuard has become the target of a Kremlin-backed propaganda operation. We’ll take the impersonation and baseless accusations of bribes to be confirmation we’re doing something right.
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New from NewsGuard: Natural health influencers are recycling the long-debunked myth that staring at the sun will miraculously improve your eyesight.
Recent TikToks promoting the dangerous practice have garnered 100,000+ views.
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"The research, conducted through NewsGuard's newly launched Reality Gap Index in partnership with YouGov, surveyed 1,000 Americans and found that only 7 percent of those surveyed could correctly identify all three false claims as untrue."
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Since his first confirmation hearing, RFK Jr. has spread 12 provably false health claims in government hearings, media appearances, and on social media that have collectively amassed 25 million views on X alone, according to a NewsGuard analysis.
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ICYMI: Researchers said RFK Jr.'s HHS twisted their work to justify shift on COVID vaccines during pregnancy.
HHS' response was to suggest NewsGuard was dismissing "significance of the underlying data," even when the study authors said HHS was wrong.
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A HHS and RFK Jr. memo to Congress cited multiple studies to justify the agency’s new recommendation that pregnant women should not get a COVID vaccine.
But the actual study authors who spoke to NewsGuard said HHS misrepresented their work.
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One of the U.S. government’s new advisors on vaccine recommendations, Dr. Robert Malone, is a frequent source of vaccine misinformation, including the false claims that COVID-19 vaccines can cause cancer and increase the risk of stillbirths.
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Anti-Vaxxers Resurface Myth that COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Miscarriages www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/anti-vaxxe...
Joe Biden is not suffering from COVID vaccine-induced "turbo cancer" -- because that's not a real thing.
After Biden's cancer announcement on Sunday, it took only nine minutes for the first posts falsely blaming COVID vaccines to surface on X.
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Contrary to claims pushed by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine group, none of the primary additives used to fluoridate water in the U.S. are included in a public, searchable database of substances that the EPA classifies as hazardous waste on its website.
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NewsGuard’s depository of false health-related claims advanced by RFK Jr. and the anti-vaccine nonprofit he founded has now hit 103.
Check out the whole list and subscribe to NewsGuard’s Reality Check while you’re at it:
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NewsGuard's health team often talks to experts when looking at complicated claims.
This week, one expert didn't want his name used out of fear of being targeted by "a hit-list for grant cuts."
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Scientists Find Measles Likely to Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop.
A new analysis by Stanford epidemiologists predicts that measles could become endemic again in the US in the next 20 years.
This would be a catastrophic failure and a result of anti-vax propaganda. Measles is a vaccine-preventable disease that was declared eliminated in the US in 2000.
Some X and Telegram users, citing comments from RFK Jr., are falsely claiming that studies debunking vaccine-autism claims have not compared vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
In reality, multiple studies have done so, dating back to the 90s.
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No, Dr. Fauci does not want to kill your cats to fight bird flu.
All Fauci did was accurately note that H5N1 has infected cats -- which a frequent misinfo source stretched into a cat-killing conspiracy.
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Anti-vaxxers are mixing up correlation and causation (again) with the Texas measles outbreak, falsely claiming that an uptick in MMR vaccinations after the outbreak started means the vaccine itself is to blame.
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Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, where the 6-year-old was treated, said the video with Pierre Kory "contains misleading and inaccurate claims."
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