“Changing public health recommendations and scientific findings is proof that lawmakers and public health officials have been lying about the pandemic.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 11 Feb 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisMisunderstanding of scientific process
What PolitiFact found
This narrative overlooks the challenges of a rapidly-evolving global virus and reflects a widespread misunderstanding of how the scientific process works, science historians and researchers told us.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 11 February 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 February 2022, 13 days later. Its rating was “Misunderstanding of scientific process”.
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