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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…

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…

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…

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…