Fertility typically returns promptly after stopping oral contraceptive pills.
Claim:
Use of the oral contraceptive pill causes long-term or permanent infertility after discontinuation.
TOTAL BS
Health
Medical claims, wellness fads, and what the evidence actually supports.
Randomized trials show walnuts improve sperm motility, vitality, and morphology.
Claim:
Consumption of walnuts can improve sperm quality in humans.
HARDLY BS
Studies show no proven kidney harm from high-protein diets in healthy adults, but long-term effects remain uncertain.
Claim:
High-protein diets do not cause kidney damage in people with healthy kidneys.
SOME BS
UEA’s preliminary metabolite-based model classified healthy, MCI and impaired groups with 79% accuracy.
Claim:
A blood test developed by researchers at the University of East Anglia can detect early-stage dementia with 79% accuracy.
MOSTLY BS
Red yeast rice with adequate monacolin K reduces LDL cholesterol by 15–25%.
Claim:
Red yeast rice lowers cholesterol levels in humans.
HARDLY BS
Prevotella copri is listed as Risk Group 1, unlikely to cause human disease.
Claim:
The bacterium Prevotella copri is classified as a pathogen.
TOTAL BS
Regulatory-approved cosmetic ingredient doses are set far below known harm thresholds.
Claim:
Common cosmetic ingredients, when used at regulatory-approved doses, are toxic to human health.
TOTAL BS
No rigorous trials show diet alone reverses CAD better than statins.
Claim:
Dietary intervention is more effective than medication at reversing coronary artery disease.
MOSTLY BS
When calories are equal, cutting carbohydrates does not increase fat loss.
Claim:
Eliminating carbohydrates from the diet causes fat loss regardless of total caloric intake.
TOTAL BS
Insulin-resistant people can still lose body fat with calorie deficits and exercise.
Claim:
Insulin resistance prevents fat loss in humans.
MOSTLY BS
Chronic cortisol elevation with insulin promotes fat storage and reduces lipolysis.
Claim:
Elevated cortisol levels do not directly prevent fat loss in humans.
MOSTLY BS
High saturated fat intake raises LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular disease risk.
Claim:
Saturated fat consumption is harmful to human health.
HARDLY BS
As of early April 2026, no sustained human-to-human H5N1 transmission was detected.
Claim:
As of April 3, 2026, H5N1 avian influenza has achieved sustained human-to-human transmission.
TOTAL BS
Vitamin D testing is widely overused, with many tests lacking guideline indications.
Claim:
Vitamin D deficiency is widely overdiagnosed in clinical practice.
SOME BS
Long-term levothyroxine risks mainly occur with overtreatment and suppressed TSH.
Claim:
Long-term use of levothyroxine is associated with adverse health effects.
SOME BS
Human evidence for taurine’s mood benefits is limited to one small psychosis add-on trial.
Claim:
Taurine supplementation supports mood and emotional health in humans.
MOSTLY BS
Radiologists often fail to spot deepfake X-rays, yet diagnostic accuracy remains similar.
Claim:
AI-generated deepfake X-ray images are sufficiently realistic to cause radiologists to make incorrect diagnoses.
SOME BS
MTHFR C677T can correlate with higher inflammation markers, while A1298C may not.
Claim:
Variants in the MTHFR gene are associated with increased inflammation in humans.
SOME BS
Glutathione enables detoxification by conjugating xenobiotics for excretion.
Claim:
Glutathione supports detoxification processes in the human body.
NOT BS
Major medical evidence warns carnivore diets risk deficiencies, high LDL, cardiovascular harm.
Claim:
The carnivore diet (an all-animal-product diet excluding plant foods) is beneficial to human health.
MOSTLY BS
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