FAKE NEWS: 75% of the world's population will get cancer

FAKE NEWS: 75% of the world's population will get cancer
© EPA-EFE/ROBERT GHEMENT   |   Romanian far-right politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Diana Sosoaca (C), wearing white boxing gloves, reacts while delivering a statement after registering for the 2025 presidential race at the Central Election Bureau (BEC) headquarters in Bucharest, Romania, 13 March 2025.

Three quarters of the world's population will get cancer due to deliberate air poisoning, says conspiratorial MEP Diana Şoşoacă.

NEWS: By 2050, 75% of the world's population will get cancer. Awful, right? So I ask, is it the food? No. Water? No. It’s the air. How do we defend ourselves? And I ask, okay, and what’s going to happen? We will undergo triage. Remember COVID, back in 2020, 2021, 2022? Some people got pneumonia, not COVID. COVID is a hoax. When we were in Victory Square, they threw some substances at us from the air. Later, we would fight a bad cough for two or three months. Some of us died. Unknown causes, lung diseases. None of us had COVID. Others made it. We didn't get COVID. Thousands and thousands. And when I asked the doctors, they told me “You see, some human organisms have the ability to adapt”. It's this awful triage they put us through. Those who have a strong body can adapt, while those who don't, perish. We will have to fight these methods. We can only do it together. Then we came across problems because we invited people here from countries banned in the European Union, with whom I stubbornly keep in touch, because even though these countries are small or subject to sanctions, they have found treatments for cancer. But it’s not chemicals. They are as natural as possible. And that's why they are banned. That's why these states are subject to bans. There’s a lot we’re going to learn about today. I am surprised that many of us have stayed for so long, given how many attacks we survive. And especially political ones. That's why this conference is extremely important, because I would like to find out if the cause of cancer has been discovered. I remember when I was little, my great-grandmother told me, God rest her soul, that my great-grandfather died in 1950 of stomach cancer. And I asked, so what? Did cancer exist back then? It did, but to a lesser extent.

NARRATIVES: 1. A global cabal is planning to make humanity sick with cancer. 2. Romanian authorities poisoned protesters against anti-Covid health safety measures during the pandemic. 3. Several states that have developed a natural treatment for cancer are subject to international sanctions.

PURPOSE: To promote conspiracy theories, to undermine trust in the healthcare system and, by extension, in state authorities, to stir and amplify social unrest, to valdie previously promoted conspiracy theories.

Only 1 in 5 people get cancer   

WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: The statement with which Diana Şoşoacă begins her speech is as alarming as it is false, intended to start not only a panic among the population, but also a radical revolt against the healthcare system, seen by conspiracists as one of the main tools used by the global cabal to eliminate a significant part of humanity. In fact, a report released by the World Health Organization announced in February 2022 that by 2050, the number of cancer cases will increase by 35 million cases globally, i.e. 77% compared to 2022, the most recent year for which data has been centralized so far. The same report showed that, in 2022, approximately 20 million new cases of cancer had been diagnosed, and 9.7 million people had died from this disease. According to the WHO, the percentage of cancer patients worldwide is approximately 20%, and the death rate from it is 1 in 9 for men and 1 in 12 for women. Although the number of cases diagnosed with cancer is indeed increasing from year to year, the percentage remains quite constant, taking into account that the global population is also growing at a similar pace. The claim that three-quarters of the population will get cancer by 2050 is, therefore, nothing short of a fabrication from MEP Şoşoacă, who has made a habit of spreading false narratives related to an alleged Great Healthcare Reset planned by secret forces that seek to reduce the population to minimum levels.

The narrative echoes the message promoted for many years by followers of movements that accuse the medical system of “creating” tumors subjects' bodies through vaccines and certain procedures and favoring the spread of metastases. The same minds “awakened  to reality” claim that miracle cancer treatments are kept secret by big pharmaceutical companies, which at the same time aim to physically eliminate those who tell the truth about this practice. In the same vein, Diana Şoşoacă presents herself as a victim of this conspiracy, without providing a single piece of evidence to substantiate her claims related to either “the spraying of harmful substances on protesters” or the deaths caused by it. Likewise, in the same elliptical style of providing clear-cut information, the MEP does not specify to whom she addressed the questions related to the origin of cancer, just as she does not clearly specify the situations and people who attacked her, especially politically (!!), putting her life in danger. In fact, we are once again dealing with Diana Șoșoacă’s typical self-victimizing discourse, seeing threats and enemies at every turn.

Similarly, Şoşoacă “failed” to say which are the “small countries banned in the European Union” and sanctioned for their courage in developing natural anti-cancer treatments. In fact, the EU has adopted sanctions against states such as Russia, Belarus, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo or Venezuela. We can easily observe that none of them have announced any revolutionary treatment against cancer. In fact, European sanctions are imposed based on four thematic regimes that target those responsible for acts of terrorism, human rights violations, the proliferation and use of chemical weapons or the launch of cyber-attacks.

Cancer isn’t airborne

BACKGROUND: The term “cancer” does not define a disease in itself, but represents the generic name given to a group of illnesses that involve abnormal cell development, with the potential of invading or spreading to other parts of the body. The scientific community has identified several causes that can lead to the appearance of most types of cancer, including certain chemical substances called carcinogens, which enter the body, or, for some types of cancer, viruses. Certain diets, lifestyles, radiation, viral infections, but also hereditary or hormonal causes can cause these diseases. Although in recent years, the incidence of cancer cases has indeed been increasing rapidly, due to global pollution, nutrition, etc., it is now better highlighted by the development of methods for detecting the disease, which are increasingly improving from one year to the next. Thus, Diana Şoşoacă’s great-grandmother’s statement about the low incidence of cancer in the 1950s is only partly true, as many cases passed undetected at the time due to the limitations of medicine. In fact, cancers have always existed, but were not sufficiently diagnosed.

At the end of March, the party led by Şoşoacă, SOS Romania, organized a conference entitled “The Rebirth of Hope”, which was intended to be an event dedicated to the “fight against cancer”. In fact, the event was nothing more than an opportunity for the nationalist MEP to promote her conspiracy theories once again, without making any real contribution to the “fight against cancer”.

Designated personality of the year 2021 by the Kremlin's mouthpiece, Sputnik, Diana Şoşoacă has risen to notoriety over the years through various scandals in which she has been involved, but also by promoting false theses, narratives and disinformation very similar to those launched from Russia. In her speeches, she also promotes sovereignist, anti-European and anti-Ukrainian narratives, while her political activity is limited to taking positions with discriminatory, homophobic and anti-Semitic overtones, legislative initiatives that blatantly go against international law, as well as speeches bordering ridicule. A separate chapter in Diana Şoşoacă's speech is, obviously, represented by conspiracy theories related to the healthcare system and secret plans to exterminate the world's population, through vaccines, medicines, medical procedures and treatments for various diseases.       

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