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A 'Harvard Study' Doesn't Disprove Racial Bias in Officer-Involved Shootings

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Kim LaCapria
July 15, 2016 The New York Times inaccurately reported an unvetted working paper as a Harvard study that dispr ...
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Did a Young Girl Disconnect her Grandfather's Life Support to Plug in her Phone’s Charger?

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

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Kim LaCapria
Sept. 22, 2017 Some iOS upgrades have slowed down the processor speed of some older iPhone models, but not for ...
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Do WiFi Signals Stunt Plant Growth?

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Kim LaCapria
April 8, 2017 The claim behind a 2013 school science project purportedly documenting that wireless signals wil ...
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'Alarming Study' on Chemicals in Baby Food?

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Dan MacGuill
Oct. 26, 2017 The Clean Label Project claims 80 percent of baby formula contains arsenic.
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Do Women with Natural Hair Have Low Self-Esteem?

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David Mikkelson
April 8, 2017 "Natural hair being viewed as a messy look is causing many women to feel inadequate and less des ...
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Does Nutella Contain a Known Carcinogen?

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Snopes Staff
Jan. 15, 2017 A number of sensational headlines inaccurately claimed that the popular hazelnut cocoa spread co ...
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Doctors Are Now Saying Menstrual Cramps Are as Painful 'as a Heart Attack'

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Kim LaCapria
Dec. 21, 2016 A sketchy screenshot claiming doctors "are now saying" menstrual cramps are "as painful as a hea ...
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Drinking Tequila Provides Many Health Benefits?

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Kim LaCapria
Nov. 2, 2016 Unfortunately, myriad claims about tequila's putative health benefits are not rooted in science ...
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Flossing Isn't Backed by Science?

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Brooke Binkowski
Aug. 6, 2016 A popular news story correctly reported that there was little evidence to support flossing's ben ...
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Stanford Study Proves Election Fraud through Exit Poll Discrepancies

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Kim LaCapria
June 15, 2016 Two researchers released a paper (not a study) examining whether primary election fraud that fav ...
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Did the FBI Reveal the 'Most Dangerous' Zodiac Signs?

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Kim LaCapria
May 25, 2016 A number of sketchy sales sites created a rumor that the FBI had released a study ranking zodiac ...
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Did American Pediatricians Issue a Statement That Transgenderism Is 'Child Abuse'?

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Kim LaCapria
May 20, 2016 It was an official-sounding but fringe group of politically motivated pediatricians who issued a ...
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Canadian Teen Finds Lost Mayan City With Satellite Maps

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Kim LaCapria
May 11, 2016 Archaeologists quickly debunked viral reporting about a Canadian teen discovering a lost Mayan city.
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Italian Doctor Finds Surprisingly Simple Cure for Multiple Sclerosis?

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Kim LaCapria
April 27, 2016 Long-debunked claims from 2009 about a novel approach to Multiple Sclerosis were misleadingly pr ...
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Do Studies Show That Women with Big Butts are Smarter and Healthier?

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Kim LaCapria
April 18, 2016 An Oxford University study that supposedly indicated "big butts make you smarter" was heavily di ...
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Does Wine Before Bed 'Make You Skinny'?

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Kim LaCapria
Feb. 18, 2016 No, a Harvard study didn't just prove sinking wine before bed "makes you skinny" or that it aids ...
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Do 10 Percent of College Grads Think Judge Judy Is on the Supreme Court?

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Kim LaCapria
Jan. 21, 2016 Several web sites reported that 10 percent of college grads thought Judge Judy was a Supreme Cou ...
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Doctors Kill More People Than Guns?

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Kim LaCapria
Jan. 7, 2016 No, a study didn't prove doctors are more deadly than guns.
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FALSE: One-Third of Doctors Won't Recommend Gardasil HPV Vaccine

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Kim LaCapria
Jan. 6, 2016 An article in the journal 'Pediatrics' was misconstrued to suggest that a third of physicians su ...
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Labatt's, Moo

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Kim LaCapria
Oct. 21, 2015 No, a "study" did not determine that a third of vegetarians secretly eat meat when they're drunk ...
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