12 October 2018 The research arm of The Economist magazine releases an annual “Democracy Index” ranking the strength of democracy in each country. The U.S. has not been in the top 20 since 2015.
15 October 2018 Numerous websites list cream of tartar as a home remedy for headaches, but the scientific claims made to support the notion are rooted in junk science.
10 October 2018 A theoretical NASA paper written in 2015 was misconstrued in 2018 to suggest an urgent need to geoengineer a solution to Yellowstone’s eruptive potential.
10 October 2018 The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has urged hunters to be on the lookout for signs of the disease, but its occurrence is not a significant risk to the general human public.
9 October 2018 LaCroix’s parent company is being sued over the allegedly false claim that the product is “all natural.” The chemicals identified in the lawsuit, however, are both safe and naturally occurring.
5 October 2018 Software engineer and cryptocurrency advocate John McAfee claimed the presidential alert system gives the government access to your phone. We found no evidence to support that claim.
3 October 2018 Gamble v. United States concerns a felon who was arrested for possession of a firearm. It could also have significant bearing on the President’s much vaunted pardon power.
3 October 2018 Same-sex UN personnel now need to be legally married to qualify for U.S. visas, even if their home countries do not allow such marriages.
1 October 2018 Judge Brett Kavanaugh once ruled against a police shooting victim’s family, blocking financial damages a jury awarded to them. But another part of that ruling was in the family’s favor.
28 September 2018 The only similarity between the men in these two pictures is what appears to be a shared love of beer.
28 September 2018 Senate investigators interviewed two separate men who think they were responsible for the assault, but Blasey Ford is 100% sure it was Kavanaugh.
26 September 2018 By the company’s own accounting, Amazon actually received a $137 million federal tax credit in the same year they earned over $5.6 billion in profit.
