Claim: A video shows school girls coughing and wincing in pain at a hospital after receiving the HPV vaccine. Fact: The claim is false; the viral video predates the ongoing HPV vaccination campaign. It first appeared online in May 2024 in the context of tear gas shelling at a school in Azad Jammu and Kashmir […]
Claim: Dr Adeeb Rizvi has advised people against taking medication for blood pressure issues and undergoing medical procedures such as surgeries. Instead, he promoted a natural recipe of his own, while claiming the success and effectiveness of the said cure in an audio message. Fact: The audio is fake and wrongly attributed to Dr Rizvi. […]
Claim: The artificial sweetener aspartame can worsen the cardiovascular condition atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation. Fact: Aspartame has not been conclusively found to worsen this condition; the findings were experimental and lacked firm evidence. Many X users have posted various claims when it comes to the health risks of consuming aspartame. On 20 February 2025, […]
Claim: A video on social media shows the poor state of Services Hospital in Lahore under the leadership of Chief Minister of Punjab Maryam Nawaz. Fact: The claim is misleading as the video is from July 2023 when the interim government was in charge. The incident shown in the video is not recent nor is […]
Claim: A video shows children falling sick in school after receiving polio vaccination in the Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Fact: The claim is false as these children did not receive the polio vaccine. The video is from the November 2024 deworming campaign in which students fell sick in a school in Jamrud after allegedly […]
Claim: Singapore has declared COVID-19 to be “a global hoax” after doctors there performed the first autopsy going against the WHO’s guidelines. The disease is not a virus but “a bacteria that has been exposed to radiation and causes human death by clotting in the blood”. The country’s health ministry “immediately changed the Covid-19 treatment […]
Claim: 50% of Muslims and 70% of Pakistanis in the UK are inbred, and the majority of disabled children in the UK are born to Muslim parents. Fact: There is no publicly available data on the proportion of Muslims and Pakistanis that are “inbred” or were a result of a consanguineous marriage. Data on […]
Claim: Megyn Kelly claimed that Minnesota courts can take custody away from parents who refuse their children access to gender-affirming healthcare. Fact: Minnesota courts are not authorized to take custody away from parents who refuse their children access to gender-affirming healthcare. The new amendment gives courts the ability to resolve such disputes. On 27 April […]
Claim: Viral posts on social media claimed that Dr Gilbert A Kwak, a professor at ICBS General Hospital, stated that hot fig water can cure cancer and that hot figs can “destroy” cancer cells. Fact: Although test tube studies have shown that figs possess some anti-cancer properties, there is no credible evidence to support the […]
Claim: A viral WhatsApp forward claims that castor oil can help rid a person of cataracts Fact: There is no evidence to support that the use of castor oil can cure cataracts, in fact, castor oil use in your eyes can cause adverse reactions. On 7 December 2023, Soch Fact Check was sent a viral WhatsApp […]
Claim: A video shows the process of making chicken nuggets, indicating that rubber is one of the key ingredients in the said fast food. Fact: The video shows the process of manufacturing rubber bands. It is unrelated to chicken nuggets. On 20 August 2023, the Facebook user ‘Kimberly Saxelby’ posted a video (archive) allegedly showing […]
Claim: A viral video on WhatsApp claims that Maggi instant noodles are manufactured from flour that has rotted for four to five days as well as pig marrow. Fact: The claim is false and based on a misleading video which does not show Maggi’s actual manufacturing process. The instant noodles sold in Pakistan are halal, […]