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03 Oct 2022
The Oxford study cited by Alex Jones does not support the claim that vaccination increases infection risk by 44%.

So this is a dumb blog headline that Alex is reading that isn't accurate at all. Sure. The actual study that's behind this is titled, quote, Associations of BMI with COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake, Vaccine Effectiveness and Risk of Severe COVID-19 Outcomes After Vaccination in England, a Population-Based Cohort Study. If you understand the title, you'll probably realize that this study would never be able to be used to make the kind of claims Alex is reporting. It's just not something they're looking at. Lead Stories reached out to the study's co-author, and they explained that this interpretation of their data is irresponsible and incorrect. There's one data box in the study that's being used to argue that vaccines cause a 44% increased risk of infection, and if you only look at the numbers in isolation and create your own interpretation, you could maybe come away with that conclusion, but it's totally out of context and wrong.

16 Sep 2022
Shiraz fudged data to support the fraudulent narrative that soccer players were dying from vaccine side effects.

I don't know too much about Shiraz, but it's worth noting that she was a major source of the fraudulent narrative that tons of soccer players were dropping dead because of vaccine side effects. She fudged data and miscalculated shocking numbers on that front.

12 Nov 2021
Alex Jones misrepresents a news story about an immunocompromised man who did not develop antibodies after vaccination to argue that vaccines are ineffective.

So one thing here is that Alex is correct about this headline. It does say, quote, three shots and one booster later. This man has little protection against COVID-19. However, Alex is misrepresenting the contents of the story. This is about a guy who had a kidney transplant in 2019 and has to be on immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of his life. The article is about how he does not have antibodies despite getting vaccinated, which then serves as a launching pad to discuss how many moderate to severely immunocompromised people are having difficulty with creating antibodies. This is really shitty, but it's also not totally surprising since this is the case with many vaccines. In fact, it's one of the really strong rebuttals to the whole anti-vax argument about how, like, if you're vaccinated, why do you care if I am or not? And that's really weird because this headline works for Alex if he lies about the content. But if he actually engaged with the body of the text at all, he's actually covering a story that's pro-universal vaccination.

01 Nov 2021
Alex Jones lied about Russell Wolfe's death and vaccination status to support anti-vaccine arguments.

So Alex is lying about another beloved celebrity's death in order to make this shitty argument better. In this case, it's Australian broadcaster Russell Wolfe, who died in his sleep on October 26th. At this point, I don't believe that the exact cause of death is public or known, so I can't really speak to that. Anti-vax protesters have used Wolfe's death as an argument against the vaccine, but Alex is also just making shit up.

25 Oct 2021
A blog post added a fabricated vaccine effectiveness column to a UK Health Security Agency report and deleted data rows to support the claim that vaccines have negative effectiveness.

This blog added the vaccine effectiveness column. That's a stat that just made up and they photoshopped into this thing that they're presenting as a reference to this official document. And guess what? That's already fraud. They're already deceiving by way of manipulating the information because they want you to think that this vaccine effectiveness statistic is something that the HSA tracked. It's something that they thought was relevant and it comes from official sources. Yeah, you got to sue them or something, right? That's got to be done. But I noticed something else that wasn't quite right. From top to bottom, the version in the official report had eight rows of data, but the version in this blog only had six. No. That's super weird. No. They added this column and they deleted two rows of data.

17 Sep 2021
The claim that Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend had swollen testicles from the vaccine is false.

So, first of all, Nicki Minaj's tweet had to do with her cousin's friend's balls, which were not shrunk, but allegedly became swollen. This friend allegedly lived in Trinidad, and because Nicki Minaj has over 22 million followers on Twitter, and these sorts of pieces of stray information can have serious ramifications on public opinion, the health minister of Trinidad and Tobago came out and said this was not true. Terrence Dele Singh said, quote, one of the reasons why we could not respond yesterday in real time to Minaj is that we had to check and make sure that what she was claiming was either true or false. Unfortunately, we wasted so much time yesterday running down this false claim.

29 May 2020
Alex Jones spreads false information about a vaccine lab having a 20% adverse reaction rate in monkeys.

So Alex is lying about that story about the lab. We've touched on that a bit over the course. He seems to like repeating that. There's a complete fabrication on his part. It has no connection with reality. So as for this vaccine story, this is just anti-vax propaganda that's being put out by Robert Kennedy Jr. The headline of the story is, quote, another Gates vaccine bites the dust, which Alex is interpreting as a story about a vaccine not working out, but in reality, the entire story is just misrepresenting the results of preliminary trials.

15 May 2020
The World Health Organization does not admit on its website that it added HCG to vaccines to sterilize people.

So the World Health Organization does not admit on their website that they put HCG and vaccines to sterilize people. In fact, if you go to their website and read their materials, you get a very easy-to-understand explanation for how this misinformation works.

15 May 2020
Anti-vax proponents conflated a 1994 Indian study on an anti-fertility vaccine prototype with tetanus vaccines to create a false narrative about sterilization.

There was a campaign to attack vaccines that conflated a 1994 study in India, which was, quote, not sponsored, supported, nor executed by the World Health Organization, which was a, quote, clinical trial carried out to assess the effectiveness of a prototype anti-fertility vaccine designed to provide protection against unplanned pregnancies for a period of one to two years. The active ingredient in that birth control was HCG, or human chorionic gonadrophen. Which is a hormone necessary for a pregnancy to begin. In order for this hormone to be delivered, it needed a carrier. And in this Indian study, they used diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, which were produced in a way that they wouldn't get anyone sick, but just serve as the carrier. Anti-vax proponents took this study and conflated the details into being a vaccine trial where they put in a sterilizing agent.

29 Jan 2020
Alex Jones incorrectly attributed a quote about 'too many people' to Dr. Jonas Salk, when the speaker in the clip was actually Dr. Albert Sabin.

Film. That was not Salk. Again, Hilleman in an interview. He's talking about a conversation with Sabin. He can play the PBS clips. And in it, it does say, Salk does say there's too many people anywhere. So he says there's too many people anyway. In the clip that he plays and has played and is his example, it's not Salk. Salk is not involved. All right. It's Albert Sabin. Get your information right, Alex.

20 Jan 2020
Alex Jones claims that vaccines contain nanotech that eats synapses and that half the kids are mentally retarded or already dead from them.

They love going into the mall and seeing half the kids mentally retarded for the damn shots. It's way worse than what they say. I mean, half the kids out there are freaking already dead, basically. Great job, man. Great. You're a really cool guy. Blowing out their transmitters. With nanotech frickin' stuff they've had 30 years eating their synapses that connect electrochemically to the big guy.

18 Dec 2019
The claim that peanut oil adjuvants caused public peanut allergies is based on a misrepresentation of a 1964 New York Times article about clinical trials.

Every single instance of this narrative popping up traces back to one source. There may be a bunch of books that make the claim, and there may be a ton of websites repeating it, but if they had to produce their concrete source on it, it would all point to one single thing. There's an article in the New York Times from 1964 that they're misrepresenting. The article does mention that there were clinical trials being done by Merck that involved vaccines with a peanut oil-based adjuvant in it. But the article in no way demonstrates that these trials resulted in the product being approved for human or even non-human use.