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Does Sniffing Rosemary Increase Memory by 75 Percent?

11 February 2019

Such quantitative sounding claims are great for viral shares and page views but are meaningless...

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Is Using ‘Bug Spray’ to Get High an Alarming New Trend?

29 March 2018

Media reports conflate a number of events, some of them speculative, to manufacture the existence...

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Did a Former Canadian Official Say the Illuminati Are Real—And Hiding Alien Stuff? Canada's former minister of defense has long espoused conspiracy theories.

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Were Cats Used as Prizes in Arcade Claw Machines?

9 February 2018

The nature of a video posted to Chinese social media is unclear, but it may...

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Woman Almost Loses Leg After Cutting Herself Shaving?

21 December 2017

Viral reports of a woman’s harrowing experience with a life-threatening skin infection are mostly true,...

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Did ‘Melbourne Antifa’ Claim Responsibility for the Vegas Massacre?

4 October 2017

A page falsely posing as part of the anti-fascist movement put up a post claiming...

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Did a Harvard Study Prove That Apple Slows Down iPhones to Boost Sales of New Ones?

21 December 2017

Some iOS upgrades have slowed down the processor speed of some older iPhone models, but...

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Did ‘Liberal Feminist’ Katie Hopkins Advocate ‘Euthanasia Vans’ for the Elderly?

5 September 2017

Hopkins, a British commentator known for making outrageous and sometimes morally bankrupt statements, made the...

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Are Vigilante Protesters Digging Up Confederate Graves After Charlottesville Clashes?

19 August 2017

Despite reports, emboldened protesters in Charlottesville have not started unearthing the bodies of Confederate soldiers.

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31-Year-Old British Woman Died of “Cannabis Poisoning”?

30 July 2017

Although this claim is based on official testimony from a pathologist during an inquiry into...

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Was a Pastor Eaten by Crocodiles While Trying to Walk on Water?

15 May 2017

Multiple tabloids repeated an unsubstantiated claim that a pastor was eaten by crocodiles in an...

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Daily Mail headline on deleted Syria story

Did the Daily Mail Delete a Story Reporting the U.S. Planned to Blame Assad for ‘False Flag’ Chemical Attacks? The British tabloid did delete the 2013 story, but only because they were forced to...

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