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LoveThisPic.com
LoveThisPic.com
stated on February 3, 2018 a headline
"Smoking in cars with children is illegal starting January 30, 2018."
False
By Amy Sherman • February 8, 2018
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on September 30, 2017 a tweet
Said there is cholera in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.  
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 2, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on September 20, 2017 an interview
The GOP’s health bill will protect people with pre-existing conditions "every bit as well as Obamacare did."  
False
September 22, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on September 14, 2017 a Facebook Live town hall
Vermont had to "scrap" its single-payer health insurance program because it was "going bankrupt."  
False
September 20, 2017
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview with Fox Business
"More people, almost twice as many, pay the penalty or take the waiver than signed up for (Obamacare)."
False
By Chris Nichols • July 21, 2017
Maram Museitif
Maram Museitif
stated on May 24, 2017 as quoted in a Central Health press release
Says Arabic "is the third most-common language in Austin."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on May 9, 2017 an interview
The Republican replacement for Obamacare does not give massive tax cuts to wealthy Americans.  
False
May 12, 2017
Bill Zedler
Bill Zedler
stated on April 25, 2017 his responses to a physician testifying before the Texas House Committee on Public Health
Says a federal program that collects reported side-effects of vaccinations doesn’t accept possible outcomes extending to road accidents, heart attacks or suicides.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2017
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on March 28, 2017 a tweet
"We have 5 percent of world population. 80 percent of opioids."
False
By Gary Garrison • May 10, 2017
Americas PAC
Americas PAC
stated on April 27, 2017 a radio ad
Says Tammy Baldwin was told by a whistleblower about "overmedicated veterans," she made "deadly mistakes" and "three veterans died" at the Tomah VA hospital.
False
May 5, 2017
William Ruto
William Ruto
stated on September 9, 2016 a speech at a political rally
"Cancer and matters to do with kidney failure kill more people in Kenya today than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 13, 2016
Daily Caller
Daily Caller
stated on September 19, 2016 an article in the Daily Caller
"Former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) distributed ‘watered-down’ HIV/AIDS drugs to patients in sub-Saharan Africa."
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 7, 2016 a statement by a spokeswoman
Says "Patrick Murphy is the only candidate to have voted against every measure to fund Zika."
False
By Joshua Gillin • September 14, 2016
David A. Clarke Jr.
David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech
"Doctors kill about 250,000 people a year in botched surgeries."  
False
June 29, 2016
Freedom Partners Action Fund
Freedom Partners Action Fund
stated on May 2, 2016 a TV ad
"Russ Feingold got a memo in 2009 that outlined veteran harm" at a Wisconsin VA facility "and nothing was done."
False
May 11, 2016
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 29, 2016 a speech at the Vatican
"In the United States alone we lose more than 3,000 people a day to cancer."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2016
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on March 17, 2016 a political ad
Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 21, 2016
Centre for Research on Globalization
Centre for Research on Globalization
stated on February 4, 2016 an article posted on the group's website
"The most likely triggering cause of (microcephaly)" is the "DTaP shot, a vaccine that had been recently mandated by the Brazilian government to be injected into pregnant women."
False
By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2016
Ora Houston
Ora Houston
stated on September 8, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting about the city budget
"HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin."
False
By Mary Ann Roser • October 2, 2015
Martin Shkreli
Martin Shkreli
stated on September 21, 2015 comments on Bloomberg TV
"Daraprim is still underpriced, relative to its peers."  
False
By Linda Qiu • September 24, 2015
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