CLAIM: A video clip showing a white dog with the voiceover talking about the year in which several great inventors died has gone viral on WhatsApp.
VERDICT: Almost all the claims by the narrator about the ages of inventors at the time of their death as well as the lifespan of rabbit and tortoise are FALSE and MISLEADING, the only claim which is TRUE is that of Maradona’s age at death
CLAIM: 8 doctors who died in a plane crash in Brazil found evidence linking mRNA vaccines to turbo cancer.
VERDICT: While six oncologists and two medics were aboard, only two had cancer-related specialties, and the concept of turbo cancer is a debunked myth associated with anti-vaccine narratives.
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