Conspiracy news & views from all angles, up-to-the-minute and uncensored
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the national public health agency of the United States.
NIAID director Anthony Fauci in an ABC interview Tuesday addressed a conspiracy theory recently retweeted by President Trump that falsely interpreted CDC data on the U.S. coronavirus death toll. Driving the news: Trump’s post incorrectly claimed that “only 6%” of those listed in the CDC’s tally …
Read More
You are solely responsible for your comments and by using TribLive.com you agree to our Terms of Service. We moderate comments. Our goal is to provide substantive commentary for a general readership. By screening submissions, we provide a space where readers can share intelligent and informed …
Read More
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn’t drastically reduced the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19, but posts making that bogus claim have been circulating widely — with the help of President Donald Trump, who retweeted one such claim on Aug. 30. Twitter has since removed the …
Read More
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a lot of conversation about the need for an effective vaccine. Because of the global havoc the novel coronavirus is causing, vaccine development has become a priority. Scientists all over the world are working to try to make a safe, …
Read More
A message in rotation on a digital billboard, on the northern doorstep of downtown Rochester and steps away from Mayo Clinic, is currently promoting unsubstantiated anti-vaccination fears — as the world awaits the most important inoculation in at least 70 years. The billboard, on the corner of …
Read More
No, viruses can’t travel on 5G networks, and herd immunity is not a good option Jump To Section A 5G base station in Hefei, Anhui Province of China. Photo: VCG/Getty Images Only a highly politicized, historically deadly pandemic could generate this number of outlandish and sometimes deadly myths, …
Read More
QAnon supporter Greene wins primary in Georgia Congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene wins a Republican primary in Georgia. Greene is a supporter of the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory who’s been criticized for racist comments. (Aug. 12) AP Harrison Hawkins has experienced firsthand the …
Read More
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did not “backpedal” on the number of deaths caused by COVID-19, reducing the figure from nearly 154,000 to just over 9,000, as social media posts claimed. The term “Only 6%” trended widely on Twitter over the weekend as supporters of the QAnon …
Read More
The rest were people who “had 2-3 other serious illnesses,” said the tweet, which has since been replaced with a message saying it “is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules.” A Twitter spokesperson said the tweet violated the company’s coronavirus misinformation policy.The claim …
Read More
By Trump’s own standard, the coronavirus response will soon have failed to constitute “a very good job.” The death toll has now crested 180,000, and with about 900 people dying per day on average this month, that 200,000 threshold will almost definitely be passed well before Election Day — and …
Read More