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How a Retired Scientist's Questionable 'Institute' Convinced the Internet That Cancer Was Cured
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Alex Kasprak
Sept. 6, 2017
The Socrates Institute for Therapeutic Immunology is run from the home of a defiant 92-year-old ...
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Does Sniffing Rosemary Increase Memory by 75 Percent?
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Alex Kasprak
Feb. 11, 2019
Such quantitative sounding claims are great for viral shares and page views but are meaningless ...
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Was a Healthy Nine-Year-Old Girl Paralyzed by a Flu Shot?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Oct. 26, 2018
The story of a heartbreaking illness following a routine flu shot has been used to scare people ...
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Is Cream of Tartar an Effective Treatment for Migraine Headaches?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Oct. 15, 2018
Numerous websites list cream of tartar as a home remedy for headaches, but the scientific claims ...
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Did a Scientific Study Prove That “Conspiracists” Are “The Most Sane of All?”
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Aug. 27, 2018
A conspiracy theory website drew a series of baseless or incorrect conclusions from a study that ...
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'Natural News' Creator's Newest Site Focuses Entirely on Teenaged Mass Shooting Survivor
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
April 16, 2018
Mike "Health Ranger" Adams is behind a web site dedicated to attacking David Hogg, who survived ...
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Did Ditching Common Core Cause a Florida School's Test Results to Improve?
Written by:
Dan MacGuill
March 20, 2018
Articles criticizing the Common Core curriculum draw causal connections where none exist.
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Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Damage and Create 'Snowflakes and Crybullies'?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Jan. 10, 2018
A story in an "alternative health site" falsely states mobile phones are causing people to go in ...
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Does an 'Increase' in Arctic and Greenland Ice Cast Doubt on the Reality of Global Warming?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Oct. 4, 2017
Single data points presented without context do not interfere with the scientific consensus on c ...
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Did a Second Gunman Shoot From the Fourth Floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Oct. 3, 2017
Conspiracy theorists spread false information that a second person targeted a country music conc ...
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Does NASA Data Show That Global Warming Isn't Causing a Sea Level Rise?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Aug. 1, 2017
Dubious web sites generously provided the Internet with textbook examples of both cherry-picked ...
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Wheaties Cereal Sticks to Magnets Because It Contains Iron?
Written by:
Bethania Palma
Jan. 5, 2017
Wheaties and other breakfast foods are fortified with iron, which reacts to magnets.
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Liberal College Millennials Are Less Biologically Fit Than 'Real Americans'?
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Nov. 17, 2016
A claim that "liberal millennials" are "not likely to survive the next natural selection event” ...
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Life Expectancy in the United States Declining, Thanks to Obamacare
Written by:
Alex Kasprak
Nov. 3, 2016
Some outlets have implied a connection between an annually-released actuarial study lowering a p ...
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FDA: Frosted Flakes are Healthier than Avocados
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Aug. 30, 2016
A newspaper's video critique of FDA guidelines for healthy food led to claims the agency said Fr ...
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FDA Outlaws CBD Oils
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
March 23, 2016
The FDA hasn't banned the sale of cannabidiol oils because a drug company is interested in marke ...
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Must Citizens Who Want to Receive Government Benefits Agree to Be Microchipped?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jan. 28, 2016
RFID microchips have many uses, but requiring their surgical implantation for receipt of governm ...
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Doctors Kill More People Than Guns?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Jan. 7, 2016
No, a study didn't prove doctors are more deadly than guns.
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Chipotle Sabotaged by GMO Activists?
Written by:
Kim LaCapria
Dec. 30, 2015
A rumor claims pro-GMO bioterrorists sabotaged Chipotle's supply chain to retaliate against them ...
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