Short Answer No, this is not accurate. While there are about 96 million people not in the labor force, this includes retirees who say they do not want a job, stay at home moms and dads who say they ...

No. The original source of this claim is a satirical news site. This claim is from an article in World News Daily Report, which carries the following disclaimer in the footer: World News Daily ...

Note that the date ranges of the graphs seem to be cherry-picked, possibly in order to create the appearance of a trend, hide a continuing trend, or make trends seem much more dramatic than they ...

This number comes from W3Techs - World Wide Web Technology Surveys. According to that survey, as of December 2016, WordPress is used by 27.2% of all the websites that they monitor. (Source.) However,...

Parts of the story are corroborated in this account (Grado, Gary. "Charges urged in raid in which house burned." East Valley Tribune. Oct 15 2004), which is based on a statement from the sheriff's ...

The source of this story (as cited by Kruger and Dunning) is: Fuoco, M. A. (1996, March 21). Trial and error: They had larceny in their hearts, but little in their heads. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p....

The proposed law co-sponsored by Clinton in 2005 prohibits flag burning under specific circumstances. It does not attempt to make flag burning illegal in general (i.e. outside of those specific ...

According to a post on the designer's Facebook page (and as reported by finder.com.au), it's fake: Hey guys! So our 'colour changing dress' has garnered a LOT of attention and questions, so here's ...

TL;DR: Some parts of the claim are true, some are false. The first version of a New York Times story on this report contained an error, which seems to have spread (although the NYT story has been ...

TL;DR: this claim is based on updates in the real-time election night data reported by news outlets, not the official vote counts reported by states and counties. There are discrepancies in the news ...

TL;DR: The plan that was condemned by the ACEP and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) was announced in February 2009, a month after Michelle Obama's resignation, and after she had been ...

My TL;DR summary is: there is too much uncertainty at this stage to know what the specific effect of an ACA repeal would be. The rest of this answer explains in more detail that: On the effect of ...

According to the Oklahoma State Election Board (via Twitter): This video is from pct 469 / subpct 457 in Tulsa County. These are clearly "spoiled ballots" where the voter mistakenly marked ...

No. While the 2013 ABC report cites unnamed officials as the source, several named Obama officials have since spoken out to challenge this report. Furthermore, data on Iraqi refugees entering the U.S....

There is induced seismicity in Oklahoma. There were 623 earthquakes above magnitude 3.0 in 2016. Some of these have been much stronger than 3.0, including a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in September 2016. ...

As DavePhD pointed out, the executive memorandum only applied to the executive branch. The Office of Management and Budget reports historical data since 1981 for "Total Executive Branch Civilian Full-...

I have written an answer to the duplicate challenging the facts as asserted in the question. The rest of the answer addresses a difference between the 2017 executive order and a hypothetical 6-month ...

Philip Klinkner, writing for Vox, cites the 2016 American National Election Study (ANES) pilot survey as the source of this number. But, the stated purpose of the study is to test questions for ...

Via the Washington Post: Exit polls showed Clinton (represented in the below table as left/blue) leading among those in the < $50k income bracket. For higher income brackets, the difference (if ...

While I obviously cannot prove or disprove myself that the PDF on WhiteHouse.gov is a forgery, I will raise the following points, which you may find helpful in judging the credibility of the claim: ...

In addition to statements by representatives of the union cited in the New York Times and other media sources, statements made by United Technologies CEO Greg Hayes in an interview also confirm that ...

While many agree that the current peer review system is not as effective as people would like it to be, it is not true that there is "no evidence that pre-publication peer review improved papers or ...

I looked into the references from the other answers (and some more references), here is what I learned. The TL;DR version: Levonorgestrel is not effective at preventing pregnancy in women who have ...

According to this blog post by University of Maryland political scientist Kristina Miler: I found that contact from constituents matters, but it matters in a more pervasive and specific way than ...

TL; DR summary: no. Someone at Statistics Brain copied data from an unreliable source, introduced an error while copying it, and misattributed it to a reliable source. Now articles all over the ...

In Israel, where there is a high level of alertness to threats and civilians are taught to act immediately if they see anything suspicious, there are multiple incidents of civilians identifying a ...

TL;DR: McCain did not invent that number (it does come from an economic analysis). But, it's complicated. In 2015, the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico commissioned a report (archived ...

The original source of the quote is Corman, H. and Mocan, N., 2005. Carrots, sticks, and broken windows. Journal of Law and Economics, 48(1), pp.235-266. URL - requires subscription or potentially ...

I read the papers that Mohammad Sakib Arifin cited in this answer but I came to a different conclusion, so I thought I would write another answer. I found that the "research" on this subject is ...