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10 November 2023

English maternity services rated worse on safety specifically than overall

The Mirror and BBC Radio reported a figure on official maternity ratings without clarifying that it referred to safety specifically.

13 October 2023

The Gates Foundation was not kicked out of India over HPV vaccine project

There is no evidence thousands of girls were injured by an HPV vaccine project or that this led to the Gates Foundation being kicked out of India.

18 September 2023

NHS in England not paying out £8 billion a year in maternity negligence compensation

A Times column claimed the NHS in England paid more than double its £3 billion maternity budget in maternity clinical negligence payments. But last year these payments totalled just £1.1 billion.

18 April 2023

The UK is not being flooded with contaminated drugs

Former nurse and campaigner Kate Shemirani has wrongly claimed that contaminated drugs are “flooding the UK” and prescription medication is one of the top three causes of death.

29 June 2022

Microwaves don’t make food ‘highly toxic’

A video on Instagram falsely claims that microwave ovens destroy all the nutritional value in food and turn it into a “toxin”.

23 June 2022

Public information film about the dangers of electricity has not been banned

A segment of a 1970s short film warning about the dangers of playing near electrical substations has not been banned.

3 August 2021

Study did not show 82% of pregnancies end in miscarriage after Covid vaccination

Study did not show 82% of pregnancies end in miscarriage after Covid vaccination.

25 March 2021

Unevidenced claims about the AstraZeneca vaccine on social media

A Facebook post made unevidenced claims about blood clots and the AstraZeneca vaccine.

5 March 2021

Did Eat Out to Help Out cause Covid to spread?

Debate over whether the government scheme caused a rise in infections continues.

4 August 2020

Ordinary face masks are not harmful

Mask wearing is not harmful for most people, apart from rare instances involving tight-fitting N95 respirators.

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English maternity services rated worse on safety specifically than overall

The Gates Foundation was not kicked out of India over HPV vaccine project

NHS in England not paying out £8 billion a year in maternity negligence compensation

The UK is not being flooded with contaminated drugs

Microwaves don’t make food ‘highly toxic’

Public information film about the dangers of electricity has not been banned

Study did not show 82% of pregnancies end in miscarriage after Covid vaccination

Unevidenced claims about the AstraZeneca vaccine on social media

Did Eat Out to Help Out cause Covid to spread?

Ordinary face masks are not harmful

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