Japan Did Not Declare a State Of Emergency And Nanonbots Were Not Found In 96M Citizens
The Claim
Japan declared a state of emergency after Nanonbots were found in 96 million citizens
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Recently, users claimed that Japan declared a state of emergency after Nanonbots were found in 96 million citizens.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar investigated the claim and found it to be satirical.
No Evidence That Japan Declared A State Of Emergency
Misbar’s team found no grounds for the claim that Nanonbots were found in Japan and the government declared a state of emergency upon it from any credible source.
The only article that could be found on the internet is an article published on The People’s Voice website.
The People’s Voice is a website known for its satirical content and routinely publishes fake news.
From 2016 to 2018, claims by The People’s Voice were debunked at least 80 times by several fact-checking organizations.
Were Nanobots Found In Ninety-Six Million?
It was mentioned only in the title of the article that nanobots were found in 96 million citizens. Apart from the fact that there is no credible source stating this claim, the claim could not be true in any case.
The number of people who got vaccinated in Japan is around 77.5 percent of the population. The population of Japan right now stands at 123.6 million, meaning that 96 million people in Japan have taken the vaccine, exactly the number mentioned on The People’s Voice website.
A study on this big number could not be possibly running due to financial, temporal, and logistical reasons.
ٍSuspicious Study Cited By A Satirical Website
The People’s Voice website cited a study published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory Practice and Research and claimed that unauthorized “animated worm-like” entities had been found in Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
The study could be found online. Written by Daniel Broudy and Young Mi Lee, the article talked about some kind of nanotechnology in the COVID-19 vaccines.
Upon investigating the authors of the study, it turned out that they do not have any legitimate expertise in the field of vaccines and genetics.
While Dr. Young Mi Lee is indeed a doctor, she is not a specialist in the genetics field and is not working at Okinawa Christian University as claimed by The People’s Voice website, rather she is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist.
The other doctor participating in writing this study is Dr. Daniel Broudy. Upon investigating his background in the Research Gate, Misbar’s team found that he is indeed a doctor at the Okinawa Christian University but has no relation to the genetics field. Rather, he is a professor of linguistics.
It should also be noted that the term “nanobots” was never used in the article as claimed by The People’s Voice.
Furthermore, the article was published in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research. This journal could not be found in the peer-reviewed scientific journals catalog, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine database.
Commenting on this study, Dr. William Schaffiner, a professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, said that the method and the results are extensive which is a common practice in disinformation and propaganda to overwhelm readers with a large number of sciency-sounding prose.
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