Monthly Archives: October 2002

Deodorant Doesn’t Cause Breast Cancer

For the past few years this idiotic rumor that underarm deodorant contributes to breast cancer has been circulating around the Internet. To put the rumor to rest, researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle put it to … Continue reading

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Cell Phone Lawsuit Dismissed

In early October, Steven Milloy wrote an excellent story about a federal judge’s dismissal of an $800 million lawsuit that claimed cell phone use had cause a man’s brain tumor. Judge Catherine Blake dismissed the lawsuit citing the plaintiff’s failure … Continue reading

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Do Children Who Harm Animals Later Harm People?

It has become almost a mantra within both animal rights circles and the larger mainstream media that children who harm animals are on the path to harming human beings. But is this claim true? Manchester Metropolitan University researchers Heather Piper … Continue reading

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Helen Caldicott’s Back

Helen Caldicott — the woman who claimed that Space Shuttle launches were destroying the ozone layer — is back with a retread of a radiation story ahead of possible U.S. military action in Iraq. This time around, Caldicott has joined … Continue reading

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VegSource.Com Promotes Quack Health Solutions

VegSource.Com maintains that it provides advice for living a healthy vegan lifestyle but more often than not it simply promotes the same old lame quack health advice that has been debunked over and over again but never fails to find … Continue reading

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Misleading WHO Study on Violence

Last week many news outlets reported on a study by the World Health Organization that blondes were becoming extinct — that turned out to be a hoax. No such study existed. But now WHO seems to be using a genuine … Continue reading

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Media Credibility on the Verge of Extinction

Numerous media outlets last week carried an incredible story — blonds would become extinct within 200 years. A World Health Organization study, it was reported, had looked at the issue and found that since blondness is caused by a recessive … Continue reading

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Washington, DC’s Keystone Kops

The Associated Press reports that police in Washington, DC are once again looking at Ingmar Guandique as a possible suspect in the murder of Chandra Levy. Guandique was arrested and convicted for attacking two female joggers in the same general … Continue reading

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