“The COVID-19 vaccine could lead to prion diseases, Alzheimer’s, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases.”
J. Bart Classen
Anti-vaccine advocate. A research article. Claim dated 18 Jan 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
What PolitiFact found
Coronavirus vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna have not been linked to neurodegenerative or prion diseases.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
J. Bart Classen (Anti-vaccine advocate) made this claim around 18 January 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 February 2021, 39 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Where the claim appeared
- scivisionpub.comhttps://scivisionpub.com/pdfs/covid19-rna-based-vaccines-and-the-risk-of-prion-disease-15…
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