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Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2024-03-12): Though the theory may sound far-fetched to some, chemtrails have become a common conspiracy both in the U.S. and around the world, despite evidence to the contrary. [...] The chemtrails idea has been around since 1996, and is largely rooted in an Air Force research paper from the same year, "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the weather in 2025." It outlines a "future weather modification system to achieve military objectives" using "aerospace forces," and "does not reflect current military policy, practice, or capability," the Environmental Protection Agency has stated. [...] Scientists have said there is no evidence for the existence of chemtrails. Even if there was a government conspiracy at work in aircraft contrails, such a large-scale program would be difficult to cover up given the number of people who would be necessary for operation, Harvard researchers noted.
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Transparency and freedom of information releases [...] - Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question. [...] Freedom of Information (FoI) requests
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2020-12-03): There are a number of nation-states that would love to see the "First World" burn, even if it means burning themselves in the process too. [...] Other nations are delighted t Targets include EU directorates, companies making vaccine shipping containers, a website development firm linked to vaccine supply chains.
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2008-06-17): There, fixed that for you. [...] But I guess in this case, more publicity is actually doing good. [...] It seems that several of these are very uncomfortable about the law, and one member of the Liberal party has stated that she will abstain from voting.
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2015-08-01): ‘Chemtrail’ method of military geoengineering for changing the climate. Environmental and health risks and commercial reasons for participating in climate policies 19.5.2015 [...] Ramon Tremosa i Balcells (ALDE) Four employees of Spain’s Meteorological Agency have confessed that Spain is being sprayed nationwide by aircraft that are spreading lead dioxide, silver iodide and diatomite through the atmosphere. The objective is to keep rain away and allow temperatures to rise, which creates a summer climate for tourism while benefiting corporations in the agricultural sector. In turn this is causing very severe instances of the extreme weather phenomenon known in Spanish as ‘gota fría’[1].
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2024-03-20): The Tennessee legislature has passed a bill targeting "chemtrails." [...] "The intentional injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus within the borders of this state into the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited," the bill reads. [...] The chemtrail theory is the belief that the government is secretly adding toxic chemicals to the atmosphere from aircrafts, similar to contrails. According to a research group at Harvard University which focuses on climate science and technology, the reasoning behind the theory involves sterilization, reduction of life expectancy, mind control, and weather control.
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2024-03-22): A state senator who was the 2022 GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor has proposed legislation to outlaw experimental weather modification techniques falsely associated with the "chemtrail" conspiracy theory. [...] On the subject of chemtrails, Keith said there’s little evidence to support the conspiracy theory, with the main claim being that "airplane contrails look different." Keith added that if such a program existed, it would require a vast operation and tens of thousands of people. Keeping it secret would be impossible. "If such a program was intended to cause harm to their fellow citizens — as is alleged by people who believe in the chemtrails conspiracy — then people working in the program would have very strong personal motivations to reveal it," Keith said.
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2024-03-27): The theory of "chemtrails" has been around for several decades; online essays connecting commercial aircraft to chemical spraying and weather modification appeared in the late 1990s. According to chemtrails believers, the government or another shadowy force is using commercial aircraft to release chemicals into the atmosphere — for anything from weather modification to mass mind control. [...] In the last few years, however, experts say the claim has changed. Some now say that chemtrails are being used to carry out solar geoengineering — and that researchers and government employees investigating solar geoengineering are part of the larger scheme. [...] The Tennessee bill, sponsored by state Sen. Steve Southerland (R) and state Rep. Monty Fritts (R), says that "it is documented" that the federal government or other entities "may conduct geoengineering experiments by intentionally dispersing chemicals into the atmosphere." The bill prohibits the release of chemicals "with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of sunlight." The bill has not passed the Tennessee House.
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2018-01-31): 'Chemtrail' conspiracy theorists: The people who think governments control the weather - Published [...] "Chemtrail" conspiracy theorists vary in their claims. But some of the most popular include the belief that governments control the weather on a massive scale, that scientists carrying out legitimate research about how to counteract climate change through a process called geo-engineering are secretly poisoning us, or even that secret powerful groups are spraying us with chemicals to make us pliant and easy to control. [...] Nonetheless, "chemtrail" and geo-engineering conspiracy theorists flood social media with speculation, questions and images of contrail cross-hatched skies. One international survey, external suggested almost 17% of respondents thought chemtrail conspiracy theories true or partly true.
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2024-02-20): Chemtrails, short for chemical trails, are what some call the white trails you see left behind as a plane passes overhead. Believers in the chemical aspect of chemtrails say those trails are actually clouds of chemicals used by the government or someother large scale entity for a variety of nefarious purposes from weather modification, to human population control via sterilization, to even mind control. The theories usually claim that normal jet plane output should dissipate quickly so any clouds that do not disappear immediately must be full of additional, undisclosed substances. Chemtrail theories are not only a U.S.-based phenomena—almost 17% of respondents in an international survey noted a belief in the existence of a "secret large scale atmospheric program" to be at least partly true. To address this concern, a group of 77 scientists published a report in the journal of Environmental Research Letters after digging through the supposed evidence of the intent to poison us through chemtrails. These scientists are experts in atmospheric science, including the contributions of aircraft to the atmosphere as well as atmospheric processes like how quickly or uniformly chemicals fall through the air to the ground. Of those 77 scientists, 76 said they found no evidence of a "secret large-scale atmospheric program"—that’s 98.7%. Instead, they found that "the data cited as evidence [for such a program] could be explained through other factors, including well-understood physics and chemistry associated with aircraft." In other words, the evidence pointed to the trails being simply the normally expected result of planes flying through the air.
Claim: US state governments are banning chemtrails, confirming secret government programs using chemtrails for various purposes that harm the public and the environment (Social media users, 2024-01-26)
Evidence (2024-09-16): In 2001, in response to requests from constituents, U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich introduced (but did not author) H.R. 2977 (107th), the Space Preservation Act of 2001, which would have permanently prohibited basing weapons in space, listing chemtrails as one of a number of "exotic weapons" that would be banned.[41][42] Proponents have interpreted this explicit reference to chemtrails as official government acknowledgment of their existence.[22][43] Skeptics note that the bill in question also mentions "extraterrestrial weapons" and "environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons".[41] The bill received an unfavorable evaluation from the United States Department of Defense and died in committee, with no mention of chemtrails appearing in the text of any of Kucinich's three subsequent failed attempts to enact a Space Preservation Act. [...] - ^ Ferrell, Jeff (21 December 2007). "Chemtrails: Is U.S. Gov't. Secretly Testing Americans 'Again'?". Shreveport, LA. Archived from the original on 31 August 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2023-12-14): COVID-19 cases have shown a tendency to peak during the winter. COVID-19 vaccines were initially highly effective against both infection and severe disease. The emergence of more infectious viral variants greatly diminished the vaccines’ effectiveness against infection, but the vaccines remain highly effective at protecting people from developing severe disease and death, which is their main purpose.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2024-02-29): COVID-19 vaccines — like all vaccines and other medical products — come with side effects, including serious side effects in rare cases. The vaccines were rolled out to protect people from a novel virus that has killed millions of people globally and would likely have killed millions more without the arrival of the vaccines. There is a broad consensus from experts and governmental health agencies that the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the risks. [...] "What we take away, is that the Covid-19 vaccination campaigns have been very effective in preventing severe disease," study co-author Anders Hviid, head of the department of epidemiology research at the Statens Serum Institut in Denmark, told us in an email. "The few serious side effects that we have observed in this and other studies have been rare." [...] "Hundreds of millions of people were used as lab rats and now the truth that WE ALL ALREADY KNEW can no longer be denied," said one popular post, referring to the vaccines as "experimental" and "UNTESTED." The post shared a screenshot of the headline of a New York Post article about the new study, which read, "COVID vaccines linked to slight increases in heart, brain, blood disorders: study."
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2020-04-30): COVID-19 vaccines: breaking record times to first-in-human trials [...] Over the last century, control of epidemics has been achieved successfully thanks to vaccines developed using various technologies, predominantly by classic pathogen inactivation or attenuation. This has worked efficiently for Cholera, Typhoid, Polio, Measles, Plague or Tetanus. Conjugate-vaccines and subunit vaccines have also provided effective triumphs in vaccinology for pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis4. The pace of these vaccine developments is comparatively slow to that imprinted by 21st-century vaccines that use recombinant genetic technology. During the recent pandemic of COVID-19, six vaccine candidates encoding or presenting SARS-CoV-2 antigens have entered phase I clinical trials to assess their safety and immunogenicity, including those based on mRNA (NCT04283461), adenoviral vector 5 (NCT04313127); chimpanzee adenoviral vector ChAdOx1 (NCT04324606), DNA (NCT04336410), a lentiviral vector (NCT04276896) and artificial antigen-presenting cells or aAPC (NCT04299724). Despite the fact that most of these COVID-19 vaccine candidates are being evaluated in phase I trials, some are experimental (DNA/RNA vaccines) and may have a longer journey ahead to achieve licensure. Available information indicates that various candidates express the COVID-19 spike (S) glycoprotein to neutralise the virus and prevent attachment to the human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2) receptor, known to be the co-receptor for viral entry of SARS-CoV-25.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2024-02-20): Worrying reports have emerged that many people may refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine once it is available. Conspiracy theories about potential vaccines have circulated among anti-vaxxer groups and in viral videos. In Plandemic, Mikovits falsely claims that any COVID-19 vaccine will "kill millions" and that other vaccines have done so. Another conspiracy theory makes the ludicrous assertion that Gates has a secret plan to use vaccines to implant trackable microchips in people. Most Americans still support vaccination, but the few voices of opposition have been growing. A recent study observed that although clusters of anti-vaxxers on Facebook are smaller than pro-vaccination groups, they are more heavily interconnected with clusters of undecided people. One Gallup poll found that one in three Americans would not get a COVID-19 vaccine if it were available today and that Republicans were less likely to be vaccinated than Democrats.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2022-05-03): Effect of vaccination in different populations. COVID-19 vaccines are still effective for pregnant women, patients with autoimmune diseases, and controlled HIV-infected patients, and the overall efficacy can maintain about 80–90%, while the 30% neutralization reduction occurs in older people. Moreover, the overall neutralizing activity of COVID-19 vaccines in solid organ transplant recipients, cancer patients, and uncontrolled AIDS patients is significantly reduced [...] Although the COVID-19 vaccines have achieved exciting results in both animal studies and clinical trials,3 and seven vaccines have been authorized for emergency use by the WHO, adverse events that include pain at the injection site and fever,114,118 as well as complications such as coagulation dysfunction,154 myocarditis,74 immune diseases,155 nervous system diseases159 and lymphatic system diseases160 caused by vaccination, have raised concerns about vaccine safety. Given the low proportion of overall incidence of adverse events of vaccines and the fact that some complications occur mainly in patients with underlying diseases (e.g., cardiovascular diseases and tumors). Governments and relevant agencies are recommended to accelerate the vaccine immunization process. Simultaneously, special attention should be paid to the health status of the recipients, timely treatment of complications, vaccine development, and ensuring the lives and health of patients.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2021-02-18): The Covid vaccination programme is a medical experiment. [...] People delivering the Covid-19 vaccination programme do not have to tell patients that they are taking part in a medical experiment, as a post on Facebook falsely claims. The vaccination programme is not an experiment. The three Covid vaccines currently approved for use in the UK have already been shown to be safe and effective in clinical trials.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2021-08-09): Fifteen months on from the administration of the first experimental COVID-19 vaccine doses to humans in March 2020, there is now a global race against the causative virus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to deploy vaccines to control the pandemic1, with differing levels of vaccine rollout in different countries (Our World in Data). Despite authorization having been granted for multiple vaccines, as the ongoing global outbreaks demonstrate, the pandemic is far from over. Vaccination, in combination with non-pharmaceutical interventions, is the best way to control the pandemic. In this regard, we are fortunate that there is now a formidable toolkit of potential vaccines available: of the 322 candidate vaccines that have been proposed so far (July 2021), 99 are in clinical testing, 25 have reached phase III efficacy studies and 18 have received some form of approval for use. However, achieving global vaccine coverage remains a major hurdle; this is not just a matter of equity but is also an important part of the process to control the virus. SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve under immune selective pressure, and while transmission levels remain high, there is an increased likelihood of vaccine escape variants evolving.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2021-03-25): The Covid-19 vaccines have been tested to the same high standards as any vaccine would be. While side effects are common, these are overwhelmingly minor and pass within a few days. [...] All the vaccines are intended to protect people against Covid-19. It is unclear how long that protection will last, and so in that sense the effects of the vaccines may wear off over time. [...] The Yellow Card website says: "For all COVID-19 vaccines, the overwhelming majority of reports relate to injection-site reactions (sore arm for example) and generalised symptoms such as ‘flu-like’ illness, headache, chills, fatigue (tiredness), nausea (feeling sick), fever, dizziness, weakness, aching muscles, and rapid heartbeat. Generally, these happen shortly after the vaccination and are not associated with more serious or lasting illness."
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2023-11-01): The Covid-19 vaccines are poisons, which commonly produce serious health problems. [...] A Facebook post shared hundreds of times falsely claims that the Covid-19 vaccines are all poisonous. [...] This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because Covid vaccines are not poisons, and they do not commonly cause serious health problems.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2017-11-22): As for other medicines, EMA has received reports of death following COVID-19 vaccination. Between January 2021 and December 2023, with around 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered, about 12,000 spontaneous reports of death were received in EudraVigilance from healthcare professionals and members of the public. [...] COVID-19 vaccines are not specifically authorised for preventing virus transmission from one person to another. As with other vaccines, this does not mean they cannot reduce virus transmission or be used with the additional aim of reducing transmission. [...] COVID-19 vaccines have been used in hundreds of millions of people around the world and are subject to intensive safety monitoring.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2024-09-10): Today, these incredible cells — nicknamed "HeLa" cells, from the first two letters of her first and last names — are used to study the effects of toxins, drugs, hormones and viruses on the growth of cancer cells without experimenting on humans. They have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons, to study the human genome, to learn more about how viruses work, and played a crucial role in the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2021-12-07): - Medical assistants-certified (MA-Cs) and medication assistants are prohibited from administering experimental drugs. Are COVID-19 vaccines experimental drugs? MA-Cs and medication assistants can administer COVID-19 vaccines. Any COVID-19 vaccine issued under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not an experimental drug within the meaning of the laws prohibiting MA-Cs and medication assistants from administering experimental drugs. See the Providers Authorized to Administer and Order Vaccines (PDF) chart for other health care professions that are authorized to administer COVID-19 vaccines.
Claim: COVID-19 vaccines are “experimental poison”; COVID has gone away (Andrew Tate, 2023-12-14)
Evidence (2021-01-14): The medical establishment has a long history of mistreating Black Americans — from gruesome experiments on enslaved people to the forced sterilizations of Black women and the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study that withheld treatment from hundreds of Black men for decades to let doctors track the course of the disease. So it’s not surprising that just 42 percent of Black Americans said in November they’d be willing to take a COVID-19 vaccine. As Michael Che, one of the stars of Saturday Night Live, quipped last month, "I’ve got mixed feelings about the vaccine. On the one hand, I’m Black, so naturally I don’t trust it. But on the other hand, I’m on a white TV show, so I might actually get the real one." [...] With COVID-19 vaccines, Kenneth Hempstead, M.D., a pediatrician who serves as vaccine communications lead for Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, says both empathy and information are important; because these are new vaccines, clinicians need to be extraordinarily transparent about what we do and don’t know about long-term safety concerns. "I’m optimistic about the vaccines," he says. "But if we say we have 100 percent confidence in them, and there turns out to be a problem, we run the risk of ruining the public’s trust in all vaccines."