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Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
Nov. 23, 2015
Nationalists marched on Poland's independence day (11 November 2015), but the demonstrations wer ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 18, 2015
A video of Syrian refugees purportedly complaining about a lack of TVs and slow Internet service ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria Alex Kasprak
Nov. 11, 2015
Water is water, regardless of how many times it has boiled. The assertion that it becomes toxic ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Nov. 4, 2015
Did President Obama order a Chicago school to "allow a transgender boy to use the girls' locker ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 26, 2015
Should you eat the stickers on fruit? Are they made from special "edible paper"?
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 15, 2015
Some people claim garlic imported from China is identifiable by a lack of root material, but tha ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 9, 2015
Did a mandatory gun ownership law in Kennesaw, Georgia, cause the town's crime rate to plummet?
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 6, 2015
A meme asserts that the U.S. has the third-highest rate of homicides worldwide but drops dramati ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 2, 2015
Eyelash lice are not a common side effect in wearers of lash extensions, nor do lash extensions ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Sept. 28, 2015
Despite Facebook warnings, there's little reason to expect drug-laced Gummi bears and Ecstasy ta ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 29, 2015
Are American liberals debating the merits of "after birth abortion"?
Written by: Kim LaCapria
July 22, 2015
President Obama has not removed a vow to defend the U.S. from the Oath of Allegiance sworn by al ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
April 13, 2015
Gary Harrington was sentenced followed several years of legal dispute over what the state contin ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
March 2, 2015
Claims that Locks of Love sells most donated hair for profit and charges ailing children exorbit ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Jan. 22, 2015
'American Sniper' Chris Kyle did not shoot dozens of Hurricane Katrina looters, kill two attempt ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
Jan. 1, 2015
A law in Japan requires older citizens to undergo yearly weight exams but does not make it illeg ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 16, 2014
Rumor: The world will run out of chocolate by 2020.
Written by: Kim LaCapria David Mikkelson
Oct. 22, 2014
An anthropologist (not a doctor) penned a non-peer reviewed piece arguing that flu vaccination b ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Oct. 14, 2014
The Department of Defense announced back in January 2014 that religious dress accommodations had ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 21, 2014
Texas has legalized the use of marijuana for treating a form of epilepsy, but not for other medi ...
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