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Apr 27, 2020 · While the fake quote included in the above-displayed text falsely claimed Honjo said that "natural viruses" couldn't spread around the globe due to factors such as climate, Honjo's...
May 4, 2020 · By Reuters. May 4, 202012:25 PM PDTUpdated 4 years ago. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt Purchase Licensing Rights. A claim widely shared on social media states a Japanese Nobel laureate...
Apr 28, 2020 · CLAIM: Nobel prize winner Dr. Tasuku Honjo said that the coronavirus is not natural and is completely artificial. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The doctor denied that he made that statement circulating online. THE FACTS: Posts with the fabricated quote were shared thousands of times on Facebook and WhatsApp in English and Spanish.
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Many readers have asked us about comments supposedly made by Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo. We begin today's edition by setting the record straight on Professor Honjo's stance on the source of the novel coronavirus. We've also turned our attention to Madagascar, where the country's president has been spruiking a herbal tea, and to France, where prote...
Social media posts claiming that Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo said the novel coronavirus was "not natural" and "manufactured in China" are false, according to fact checkers at AAP, AFP and Snopes. The posts quote Professor Honjo, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2018, as saying that the virus could not be natural, as it spreads ...
In Madagascar, the spread of coronavirus misinformation has not been confined to social media: even the country's leader is spruiking an unproven herbal remedy. According to the BBC, President Andry Rajoelina officially launched the herbal tea by claiming it had already cured two people in the country, prompting people to queuefor their supply of t...
With advice on when and where to wear a face mask varying widely, efforts to curb confusion are being further hindered by the spread online of misinformation about protective face coverings. One such example can be seen in a Facebook post, shared in a number of languages, purporting to show the effectiveness of face masks when worn by healthy and i...
Fact checkers at Full Fact and factcheck.org have debunked a postshared on Facebook that falsely suggests a vaccine exists for the novel coronavirus. In the post, a caption accompanying the photo of a vaccine vial states: "Now this was 200 tell me why 19 years later they say there is no vaccine." However, the label on the vial clearly states "canin...
A video showing brand new medical gowns disintegrating in France has been shared with a misleading caption suggesting the faulty gear was made in China, AFP Fact Checkhas found. One version of the video, shared on Twitter and retweeted more than 250 times, is captioned: "Protect our doctors & nurses by not buying medical supplies from bloody #China...
US President Donald Trump's recent claim that the US had done more testing for COVID-19 than "every country combined" has been rubished by fact checkers at factcheck.org. When Mr Trump made the claim on April 28, the US had carried out almost 6.03 million tests for the disease, more than any other country but not more than all other countries combi...
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Apr 28, 2020 · “Japan's Nobel prize winning Professor of Medicine, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, created a sensation today by saying that the Coronavirus is not natural,” says a Facebook post from 25 April 2020. “Based on all my knowledge and research till date, I can say this with 100% confidence - That the Coronavirus is not natural.
Apr 30, 2020 · Our verdict. Incorrect. Professor Honjo has denied saying this and there is no evidence that he ever did. Various posts on Facebook claim that the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Professor Tasuku Honjo has said that coronavirus is “not natural”. The claim was also shared on Twitter, including by Lord Sugar.
The lengthy caption states in part: “Japan's Nobel prize winning Professor of Medicine, Professor Dr Tasuku Honjo, created a sensation today by saying that the Coronavirus is not natural....
