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Latest Fact-Checks In Public Health

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Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on January 5, 2017 a press briefing
"Obamacare has failed."
Mostly False
February 1, 2017
Carlos Gimenez
Carlos Gimenez
stated on January 18, 2017 a state of the county speech
Miami-Dade is "the first community in the world to break the cycle of local transmission of the Zika virus."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 24, 2017
Nick Seymour
Nick Seymour
stated on January 7, 2017 an op-ed
Tuberculosis recently passed "HIV/AIDS as the leading infectious killer globally."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on October 15, 2016 a blog post
Say Bill Gates is linked to HPV vaccine related deaths in India.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 2, 2016 a press release
More than two months ago President Barack Obama signed a bill for more than $1 billion in Zika funding, but "the federal government has still only committed $7 million" to help Florida.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 12, 2016
James Quintero
James Quintero
stated on October 10, 2016 a panel discussion at SXSW Eco
Says that when San Francisco banned plastic grocery bags, "you saw the number of instances of people going to the ER with things like salmonella and other related illnesses" spike.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 23, 2016
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on November 11, 2016 remarks on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
In Flint, Mich., "the pipes still haven't been replaced. The water is still poisoned."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2016
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on November 8, 2016 a TV broadcast.
Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."
Pants on Fire!
By Warren Fiske • November 14, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 27, 2016 a get-out-the-vote rally in North Carolina
"We are seeing kids who are healthier."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 28, 2016
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 a speech
Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster,  . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster."
Half-True
By Joseph Cariz • October 28, 2016
No on 56 campaign
No on 56 campaign
stated on October 7, 2016 a campaign TV ad.
California’s proposed tobacco tax "diverts 82 percent of the new taxes to line the pockets of wealthy special interests like insurance companies who don't have to help even one more patient."  
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • October 25, 2016
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
stated on October 12, 2016 a press release
A World Health Organization report shows "that more people are dying of TB."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2016
Scott Jones
Scott Jones
stated on October 18, 2016 a U.S. Congressional campaign debate
Colorado saw "increased incidents of emergency room visits by young people" and "increased incidents of driving while under the influence of marijuana" following the legalization of recreational pot.
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • October 19, 2016
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
Dan Flynn
Dan Flynn
stated on September 13, 2016 a letter to state health officials
"Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate at Hofstra University
"The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together."
True
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2016 a speech
Says Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine "want to shut down shale, and shut down natural gas."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 26, 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2016 a speech in Kenansville, N.C.
"Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2016
Ertharin Cousin
Ertharin Cousin
stated on September 6, 2016 a speech transcript on Medium
"One extra year of schooling for girls reduces infant mortality rates among their children by up to 10 percent."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2016
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