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This sentence is false because its first clause—“no one died from COVID”—is flatly contradicted by official mortality data.

The CDC states on its COVID overview page: “As of June 1, 2024, nearly 1.2 million people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S.” The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) also maintains ongoing death-certificate surveillance for COVID-19 and explains that COVID-19 deaths are counted when COVID-19 is listed on the death certificate as an underlying or contributing cause of death. Its current surveillance page notes that COVID-19 is listed as the underlying cause on the death certificate in 86% of deaths counted there.

This is not a borderline interpretation issue: official U.S. mortality records directly contradict the claim that nobody died from COVID-19. Because that central factual assertion is false, the sentence as written is false.

This heading states a categorical factual claim that vaccines provide no benefit at all. That is contradicted by major public-health evidence.

WHO states that immunization is “a global health success story” and that it “currently prevents 3.5 million to 5 million deaths every year.” CDC likewise states that “About 4 million deaths worldwide are prevented by childhood vaccination every year.”

There is also direct disease-specific evidence. For example, CDC says two doses of measles vaccine are 97% effective at preventing measles. A claim that vaccines have no benefit is disproved by the documented effectiveness of even one vaccine; in reality, multiple vaccines have large, measurable benefits in preventing illness and death.

This claim is contradicted by the National Cancer Institute’s basic definition of cancer.

NCI states plainly: “Cancer is a genetic disease” and explains that it is caused by changes to genes that control how cells function, especially how they grow and divide. NCI’s cancer-genetics page is equally explicit: “Yes, cancer is a genetic disease. It is caused by changes in genes that control the way cells grow and multiply.”

That does not mean metabolism is irrelevant to cancer biology; cancer cells often do have altered metabolism. But saying cancer is not genetic and is purely metabolic is false. The mainstream evidence base shows cancer arises through genetic changes, sometimes inherited and often acquired over time, with metabolic changes being one part of a much more complex disease process.

This claim is directly contradicted by standard biomedical references.

The NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute defines a virus as “an infectious microbe consisting of a segment of nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA) surrounded by a protein coat.” It also gives well-known examples of human diseases caused by viruses, including COVID-19, measles, and smallpox.

CDC’s smallpox guidance is even more concrete: it states that variola virus (the virus that causes smallpox) could theoretically be used in a biological attack and that two labs in the world are approved to have the smallpox virus for research. If a virus is kept in designated labs for research, then the claim that viruses “do not exist” is factually false.

This claim is incorrect. The Earth’s rotation is a directly measured physical fact.

NASA’s Earth facts page states: “As Earth orbits the Sun, it completes one rotation every 23.9 hours.” NASA also explains that Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted relative to its orbit and that this rotation is part of the basic Earth-Sun system that produces the day-night cycle.

So presenting “the Earth is rotating” as a false or absurd theory is itself factually wrong.