Is an Increase in Recorded Crime in England and Wales Linked to ‘Radical Islamic Terror’?
An early morning tweet from Donald Trump contains a basic factual error and a grossly misleading summary of official UK statistics.
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Do Studies Show That Women with Big Butts are Smarter and Healthier?
An Oxford University study that supposedly indicated "big butts make you smarter" was heavily distorted in news reports.
Earth’' Population as a Village of 100 People
What would the proportions of common traits be like if we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people?
Do We Only Use Ten Percent of our Brains?
Do we really use only ten percent of our brains?
Do People Swallow Eight Spiders Per Year?
One of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the internet.
Donkey Deaths
Are more people killed by donkeys every year than in airplane crashes?
Do Men Think About Sex Every Seven Seconds?
An old bit of accepted psychology holds that men, on average, think about sex every seven seconds.
Blonde Extinction
Are natural blondes likely to be extinct within 200 years?
Sneeze Equals Orgasm
Is sneezing seven times in a row the same as an orgasm?
Swallowed Lipstick
Does the average woman swallow six pounds of lipstick during her lifetime?
Understated Unemployment
Does the government understate the unemployment rate because they only report what percentage of people are collecting unemployment insurance?
Living Outnumber Dead
Do the living outnumber the dead?
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Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg Say that Pedophilia Was Good for Children?
A 1974 report co-authored by Ruth Bader Ginsburg about sex bias in U.S. law has been grossly misinterpreted.
Did Kamala Harris Support Abortion Until the Time of Giving Birth?
The Democratic vice-presidential candidate's pro-abortion-rights record has come under scrutiny from conservatives.
Does Texting ‘RBG’ to 50409 Send a Letter to Your Senators?
The automated political advocacy service Resistbot ran another campaign following the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020.
Did Hitler Invent the Inflatable Sex Doll?
Nothing attracts curiosity like a lurid combination of Nazis and sex.
Does Texting ‘USPS’ to 50409 Send a Letter to Your Political Representatives?
A political crisis surrounding the Postal Service inspired some novel campaigning techniques in August 2020.