Claims that a study conducted by South Korean researchers “proves” a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and an increased risk of up to six types of cancer have gone viral in recent days. These claims caused a wave of misinformation, with prominent figures and platforms using their professional titles to lend credibility to them.

So how did this happen?

Who claimed the study showed a link between vaccines and cancer?

Social media accounts cited a study titled “1-year risks of cancers associated with COVID-19 vaccination: a large population-based cohort study in South Korea”, published in Biomarker Research, an open access academic journal. The study used statistics from the South Korean health insurance database and found a pattern: individuals who received the vaccine were also more

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