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  • Fake News: Dog Does NOT Fall Into Canal And Starts To Drown, Until The Group of Dolphins Come To Save Him

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    Did a dog fall into a Florida canal and almost drown before a dolphin rescued it, as pictured in this story? No, that's not true: The image purportedly of a brown dog riding on the back of a dolphin is from a short film titled "Zeus and Roxanne," which was created by a Dutch filmmaker. There was a doberman named…

    • Aug 28, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Dog Does NOT Fall Into Canal And Starts To Drown, Until The Group of Dolphins Come To Save Him
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    Is cancer caused by acidity in the body and can you prevent cancer by alkalizing your body? No, that's not true: The claim is a medical myth that has been repeatedly shot down by cancer experts. While it is true that cancer cells cannot survive in a high-alkaline environment, neither can any of your body's cells. If you raised your…

    • Aug 14, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Cancer Is NOT Caused By Acidity In The Body And You CANNOT Prevent It By Alkalizing Your Body
  • Fake News: 16 Easy Tests at Home Will NOT Tell You If Food Is Real or Fake

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    Can you do sixteen easy tests at home to check if your food is "real or fake"? No, that's not true: a viral video making that claim seems to be based mostly on examples from China or India and several of the "tests" are not adequately explained making the results useless. There are some bits of real advice in there…

    • Jun 3, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: 16 Easy Tests at Home Will NOT Tell You If Food Is Real or Fake
  • Fake News: Pepsi Does NOT Admit Its Soda Contains Cancer-causing Ingredients

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    Did Pepsi admit that its soda contains cancer-causing ingredients? No, that's not true: The drink company settled a legal dispute with a health group in September 2015 by agreeing to change its manufacturing process to reduce the level of a questionable chemical, but it did not admit the chemical was a cancer-causing ingredient. The story originated in 2016 in several…

    • May 19, 2019
    • by: Alan Duke
    Fake News: Pepsi Does NOT Admit Its Soda Contains Cancer-causing Ingredients
  • Fake News: Neuroscientists Did NOT Say Your Forgetfulness Is A Sign Of Extraordinary Intelligence

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    Did neuroscientists claim forgetfulness is a sign of extraordinary intelligence? No, that's not true: an article cribbing from an old CNN report about a scientific paper added a headline with a hyperbolic claim that does not match what the paper actually says. The claim recently went viral through an article published on March 12, 2019 published by Healthy Food House…

    • Mar 29, 2019
    • by: Maarten Schenk
    Fake News: Neuroscientists Did NOT Say Your Forgetfulness Is A Sign Of Extraordinary Intelligence
  • Fake News: Sugar Is NOT 8 Times More Addictive Than Cocaine

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    A video/infographic on the Facebook page of David "Advocado" Wolfe claims that sugar is eight times more addictive than cocaine and quotes "Dr. Mark Hyman" as saying "And What's interesting is while cocaine and heroin activate only one spot for pleasure in the brain, sugar lights up the brain like a pinball machine." The pinball machine quote is not even…

    • Feb 19, 2018
    • by: Maarten Schenk
  • Fake News: Donald Trump NOT Refusing To Eat Japanese Food While In Japan

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    Clickbait site TruthExaminer posted an article titled "Donald Trump Refusing To Eat Japanese Food While In Japan" which completely contradicted its own headline. We archived it here in case the site is shamed into removing it. It opened: Japan has often been hailed as one of the best places in the world for food but that has not caused Donald…

    • Nov 6, 2017
    • by: Maarten Schenk
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