The Conspiracy Debunk Feed

Nearly a year ago, New Zealand’s intelligence services warned of the ‘realistic possibility’ of future COVID-related violent extremism. How concerned should people be now?

OPINION: Conspiracy theories are another major tool in the propaganda kit.

Data from around the world support the general safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Some people online, however, incorrectly claim that illegally obtained data from New Zealand show the vaccines have killed 13 million people worldwide. Experts say the analysis is bogus.

“When you reduce the quality of discourse down to street-fighting level,” it can raise the risk of violence, said a former consultant to U.S. intelligence services.

On any given day in B.C., the large majority of people in hospital intensive care units are unvaccinated. On Nov. 5, 59 of 64 COVID patients age 59 and younger in I…

What is it like to be pulled into a different world, where only you and a select few can see the truth?

The provincial government encourages you to get vaccinated. But are they going to force a choice on that? No, they are not. Are they going to try? Not much.

One challenge of parenting is sorting through all available information about children's health. Here are some tips for making sense of all of the messages.

UBC vaccine expert Dr. Anna Blakney posts fun videos to music and answers questions about the virus and the vaccine from her more than 217,000 followers on TikTok.

Most people believe human rights are broadly based and it's illegal to discriminate between categories of employees. Not true

They need consequences, not sympathy.

In the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic, only a small number of the more than 6,000 hospitals in the U.S. let journalists inside.

Dr. Rhonda Patrick explains why the risk of vaccine side-effects is relatively low and warns about the dangers of vaccine misinformation on Joe Rogan's podcast.

Three charts released by the Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table demonstrate the vast difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated people when it comes to COVID-19 risks.

Vaccination mandates are a reasonable response to the spread of the variant

Both the Canadian and Ontario medical associations believe that intentional bullying directed at physicians and health-care workers is a crime and should be actively prosecuted.

There's more of it, it's becoming more extreme and it's spreading more widely.

A panel of experts answer questions about vaccines, omicron and other COVID-related issues in a discussion with The Conversation.

Montana’s GOP-led COVID response brought waves of patients to a Helena hospital, forcing health care workers to make difficult care decisions for COVID and non-COVID patients alike.

Scientists face potential struggle to convince people of vaccine safety as celebrities join misinformation chorus

Millions of people worldwide are getting infected or re-infected with highly transmissible Omicron subvariants. And yet millions of people in low and middle-income nations are still lacking access to vaccines and tools. World leaders have failed to unite against the virus.

Despite a claim that has gone viral, Pfizer never said that pre-market trials of its COVID-19 vaccine tested for its effect on transmission of the virus.

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Misinformation is making it hard for Canada to reach the vaccination levels needed to prevent the spread of measles, experts say as the country deals with the largest outbreak of the disease in almost three decades.

In St. Thomas, Ontario, Asmaa Hussain is on the frontlines treating unvaccinated patients. As vaccine refusal grows in Canada, she wonders if other preventable diseases are next.

If the health content you see on social media sounds too good to be true, it’s very likely false – but there are ways to check it out before sharing.