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Diabetes Australia

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Feb 1, 2026
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Did dr phil and dr oz find parasite that caused diabetes

No—there is no credible evidence that or Dr. Oz "found" a parasite that causes diabetes; the claim originates from AI‑generated advertising that falsely used their likenesses to sell a and echoes a lo...

Jan 13, 2026
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Blue parasite for type 2 diabetes

No evidence in the supplied reporting supports a thing called a “blue parasite” as a treatment or cause of type 2 diabetes; the literature instead explores how certain helminths (parasitic worms) or t...

Jan 15, 2026
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How do deepfakes get created and how have public-health organizations responded to synthetic media promoting health scams?

Deepfakes are produced by advanced machine‑learning systems—principally generative adversarial networks (GANs), autoencoders and newer diffusion models—that learn from large datasets of real images, v...

Jan 6, 2026

Does ivermectin kill the parasite that is associated with type 2 diabetes

There is no established single parasite proven to cause type 2 diabetes, and therefore no scientifically supported claim that ivermectin “kills the parasite that is associated with type 2 diabetes.” S...

Dec 30, 2025

How have deepfake and fake‑endorsement ads been debunked in other high‑profile medical scams?

High‑profile medical deepfake scams have been unraveled through a combination of clinician whistleblowing, platform takedowns prompted by community reporting, forensic analysis by cybersecurity firms ...