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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Warned About bin Laden?
Q: Did Oliver North warn Al Gore about Osama bin Laden at Senate hearings in 1987? A: This ridiculous hoax has been circulating since 2001, even though the secretary of the U.S. Senate and North himself have debunked it.
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Tagged Al Gore, chain e-mail, military, Oliver North, Osama bin Laden
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April 30, 2009
The Spanish Flu of 1918 is the most deadly in recent history. Twenty to 40 million people worldwide died from the disease. Source: National Institutes of Health
Posted in Fact of the Day
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Government-Run Health Care?
A group called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights began airing a television ad this week that criticizes government-run health care and falsely suggests Congress wants a British-style system here in the U.S. The ad neglects to mention that President Obama hasn’t proposed a government-run plan and, in fact …
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Swine Flu Fact and Fiction
You can’t spell "pandemic" without "panic," and news about swine flu has put people in a tizzy. As with any tizzy, this has resulted in some misinformation getting mixed in with the real-time updates. We present a few misconceptions about swine flu that we’ve seen or heard in the last …
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Specter’s Statistic on the Switch
Sen. Arlen Specter’s remarks about changing political parties contained one statement that tripped our fact-checking radar: "Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats." Two hundred thousand people in one state changing their political colors from red to blue? Could it be true? Unfortunately, …
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April 29, 2009
More than 36,000 people die from influenza each year in the U.S., and 200,000 others are hospitalized because of the illness. Source: National Institutes of Health
Posted in Fact of the Day
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April 28, 2009
In countries with high rates of malaria, the disease accounts for up to 40 percent of public health expenditures and up to 60 percent of outpatient health clinic visits. Source: World Health Organization
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