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Written by: David Mikkelson
Sept. 18, 2014
Claims that the National Football League pays no taxes on billions of dollars in profits because ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 27, 2014
The Facebook 'Identify TV and Music' app uses your phone's microphone to listen, but it doesn't ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Jan. 20, 2014
Conspiracy theorists hold that the United States government was sued and found culpable for the ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 4, 2013
President Obama did not order five first-line U.S. aircraft carriers into port together in a sho ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Feb. 5, 2013
Alarmist warnings about beaver-derived castoreum are overblown: its use is now exceedingly rare, ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 26, 2012
Warning alerts social media users that Facebook 'pirates' Facebook "pirates" perpetrate scams by ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Aug. 20, 2012
Viral message claims the traffic accident rate in Dallas declined sharply after police began imp ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 30, 2011
Pharmaceutical companies aren't interested in a 'simple cure for cancer' because it hasn't been ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Dec. 11, 2011
Seven lines of copy-and-paste text involving Rep. Nancy Pelosi's brother-in-law and a solar ener ...
Written by: Snopes Staff
Dec. 7, 2009
Facebook alerts about robbers' flinging eggs at cars to impair drivers' vision and force them to ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
May 3, 2009
Statistics demonstrate that 'Islam will overwhelm Christendom unless Christians recognize the de ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 16, 2008
Many people believe the U.S. constitution requires that presidential and vice-presidential candi ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
March 10, 2008
Baby carrots are just small carrots or carrot chunks, not 'deformed full-sized carrots that have ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
April 29, 2007
A warning to parents claimed drug dealers sell flavored, pink methamphetamine known as 'Strawber ...
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Nov. 23, 2006
Green potatoes do contain a form of toxin, but you are unlikely to ingest enough of it to do you ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
June 4, 2006
In 2006, a roll call vote was paired with a mischaracterization of the amendment in question.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
Sept. 10, 2005
False rumors that the American Red Cross collects fees from those whom they assist have dogged t ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
Nov. 17, 2003
As comedian George Burns once declared, "Most of what I say is true. The rest is show business."
Written by: David Mikkelson
July 19, 2003
You probably didn't know most of them because they're not true.
Written by: Barbara Mikkelson
July 5, 2003
Do several major brands of lipstick contain dangerous levels of lead that can be detected with a ...
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