Snopes.com

Snopes.com is implicated in the following disputes on Skeptive:

True or False? "Zinc supplements help ease symptoms of the common cold and may prevent the virus altogether." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Wearing deodorant or antiperspirant can cause breast cancer." (view dispute report)

How many spiders does the average person eat during his lifetime? (view dispute report)

Does Lady Gaga have male genitals? (view dispute report)

Is the Great Wall of China visible from space? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Michelle Obama is pregnant." (view dispute report)

Was Winston Churchill born in a public ladies' room during a dance? (view dispute report)

What species have sex for pleasure? (view dispute report)

What is the origin of "420" as a code for marijuana? (view dispute report)

Was Donald Duck banned in Finland because he does not wear pants? (view dispute report)

Should humans drink at least eight glasses of water per day? (view dispute report)

When was the flush toilet invented? (view dispute report)

Did Osama Bin Laden have a life-threatening kidney disease? (view dispute report)

Does the red dot in 7up come from the fact that its inventor was albino and chose the symbol for his red eyes? (view dispute report)

Is it illegal to drive in reverse in Glendale, Arizona? (view dispute report)

Who were Baby Ruth candy bars named after? (view dispute report)

Is it true that one mile in five on the interstate must be straight to serve as an emergency airplane landing strip? (view dispute report)

True or False? "All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20." (view dispute report)

In equestrian statues, does the number of hooves in the air reveal how the person died? (view dispute report)

Is a male praying mantis capable of mating with its head still on? (view dispute report)

Is it true that a single woman over 40 years old has a greater chance of being killed by a terrorist than getting married? (view dispute report)

Do men think about sex more than once per minute on average? (view dispute report)

What was the first television show to show a couple in bed together? (view dispute report)

Does the phrase "mind your P's and Q's" come from an old English pub custom? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Barack Obama's mother posed for nude photos." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The Titanic was carrying an ancient Egyptian mummy when it sank." (view dispute report)

True or False? "In Arizona, it is illegal to hunt camels." (view dispute report)

Does your heart stop when you sneeze? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Don McLean's famous song "American Pie" was inspired by the name of the plane in which Buddy Holly died - American Pie." (view dispute report)

True or False? "One year for a human is like seven years for a dog." (view dispute report)

Is it illegal for women to wear pants in Tucson, Arizona? (view dispute report)

True or false? "Five signers of the Declaration of Independence were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died." (view dispute report)

Was the Titanic the first ship to use the SOS signal? (view dispute report)

Has Niagara Falls ever frozen solid? (view dispute report)

In Arizona, is it a felony to commit a misdemeanor while wearing a red mask? (view dispute report)

Is it illegal to play cards with a Native American in Globe, Arizona? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Barack Obama's social security number is a number reserved for Connecticut residents." (view dispute report)

Where does the name 7up come from? (view dispute report)

Is there any jurisdiction in which sorority houses were banned because, technically, that many women together legally constituted a brothel? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca Cola, and Budweiser, in that order." (view dispute report)

Is it illegal to wear suspenders in Nogales, Arizona? (view dispute report)

Do hair and fingernails continue to grow after death? (view dispute report)

At what time of day did Abraham Lincoln die? (view dispute report)

Does aspartame cause seizures? (view dispute report)

Does Listerine help repel mosquitoes? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Between 1937 and 1945 Heinz produced a version of Alphabetti Spaghetti especially for the German market that consisted solely of little pasta swastikas." (view dispute report)

Is eating carrots good for your eyes? (view dispute report)

Does Barack Obama's wedding ring have the Arabic inscription "No god but Allah"? (view dispute report)

Does eating turkey make you sleepy? (view dispute report)

True or False? "If you touch a baby bird, the parents will abandon it, and it will die." (view dispute report)

Is it true that people only use 10% of their brains? (view dispute report)

True or False? "The United States spent millions developing a pen that would work in space, while the Soviets solved the same problem by using pencils." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The game of 'golf' is an acronym for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'." (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama the Antichrist? (view dispute report)

Is the praying mantis is endangered or protected by law? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Lobsters mate for life." (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama a Muslim? (view dispute report)

Who invented the flush toilet? (view dispute report)

Is the Great Wall of China the only man-made object visible from the moon? (view dispute report)

Is the word "news" actually an acronym for the four compass points (North East West South)? (view dispute report)

Did Julius Caesar say, "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword"? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Grapes are poisonous to dogs." (view dispute report)

Is Barack Obama a natural born citizen of the United States? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Texas is the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The major flavouring in the soda Dr. Pepper is prune juice." (view dispute report)

Does aspartame cause birth defects? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Obama's visit to Pakistan in 1981 raises questions about whether he's an American citizen because Americans could not visit Pakistan at that time." (view dispute report)

Is Buddhism a true religion or a false religion? (view dispute report)

Did Coca Cola originally include cocaine as an ingredient? (view dispute report)

Are poinsettias poisonous? (view dispute report)

What did Mama Cass die of? (view dispute report)

Did Martin Luther King Jr. plagiarize his doctoral dissertation? (view dispute report)

Does shaving make your hair grow back thicker? (view dispute report)

Did the Founding Fathers define what "natural born citizen" means in the Constitution? (view dispute report)

Did Sarah Palin say, "I can see Russia from my house"? (view dispute report)

True or False? "President Obama's trip to India cost taxpayers $200 million a day." (view dispute report)

Does aspartame cause brain tumors? (view dispute report)

Is aspartame safe for your health? (view dispute report)

Is the Great Wall of China the only man-made object visible from space? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Facebook will shut down on March 15, 2011." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American program in the history of Korean television" (view dispute report)

Did insiders with knowledge of the 9/11 attacks short the stocks of airlines in the days leading up to Sept. 11, 2001? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Only one person of Israeli descent died in the 9/11 attacks." (view dispute report)

Did Marilyn Manson play Paul Pfeiffer on "The Wonder Years"? (view dispute report)

Is the daddy long legs one of the most venomous of all spiders? (view dispute report)

Can aspartame cause multiple sclerosis? (view dispute report)

True or False? "If you swallow gum, it will take years to pass through your digestive tract." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The Pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary, to accomodate Virginia's laws on racial segregation." (view dispute report)

True or False? "When opossums are playing opossum, they are not "playing." They actually pass out from sheer terror." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The name of the popular sports drink Gatorade was named for the University of Florida Gators where it was developed." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Many Americans are dehydrated much of the time." (view dispute report)

Did Martin Luther King Jr. have extramarital affairs with white women? (view dispute report)

True or False? "When God created the earth, He created a world that looked billions of years old." (view dispute report)

Is it true that Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest? (view dispute report)

Did John Kerry earn his medals in the Vietnam War under fishy circumstances? (view dispute report)