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How a Retired Scientist's Questionable 'Institute' Convinced the Internet That Cancer Was Cured

Written by: Alex Kasprak

Sept. 6, 2017

The Socrates Institute for Therapeutic Immunology is run from the home of a defiant 92-year-old ...

Does Sniffing Rosemary Increase Memory by 75 Percent?

Written by: Alex Kasprak

Feb. 11, 2019

Such quantitative sounding claims are great for viral shares and page views but are meaningless ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...