Hoaxes from Planck's Constant Archives

Posted on May 8, 2011 11:06 PM

When the US position was that Osama Bin Laden was alive, the conspiracy theorists insisted he was most surely dead. Now that our government declares him dead, the conspiracy theorists insist that he is most surely alive.

Read the Rest: When Osama was Alive They Said He was Dead Now What?

Posted on May 3, 2011 03:40 PM

I saw this today in Chinese Newspapers in downtown New York City. A quick scan of Indian and Pakistani newspapers reveals the same photos.

Read the Rest: Photo of Osama Bin Laden with Bullet to Face

Posted on February 26, 2011 10:46 PM

So if you listen to WABC Radio 77 in New York you most likely have heard the infomercial on Vitamin D from Dr John Cannell where he will send you a free bottle of his Vitamin D for only $4.95 in shipping. But do not do this. It is a waste of money.

Read the Rest: Do Not get Free Vitamin D on the Radio

Posted on September 16, 2010 06:46 PM

One of the persistent lies used by those who support terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah is that Palestinians are merely fighting in self-defense against an enemy that purposely targets children.

Read the Rest: The Mohammed Al Dura Hoax Explained

Posted on June 14, 2010 01:01 PM

Under Jordanian Arab rule the so-called Palestinians were treated like junk-yard dogs. Under Israeli rule they finally had opportunities most Arabs in Arab countries do not have. Palestinians under the thumb of Israel have a higher literacy rate than Arabs in almost every single Arab state and live better than the majority of Arabs not under Israeli rule.

Read the Rest: Outrageous Photos of Starving Gazans

Posted on October 15, 2009 04:00 PM

I get hundreds of emails asking me to reprint them. Some of them I have indeed posted, thank you, and can be read in my category tagged Emails.

Read the Rest: Please Stop the Useless Emails

Posted on September 21, 2009 02:36 PM

Reader B.W. sent me this email showing quite clearly the difference between Democrat and Republican Governors. Please be sure to read my notes at the bottom of my post.

Read the Rest: Difference in Democrat and Republican Governors

Posted on September 6, 2009 07:54 PM

Great Seal of US on back of one dollar bill

There is no shortage of Jew-hating websites that like to spread lies about Jews by quoting famous people making anti-Semitic remarks. One such hoax is the lie that Benjamin Franklin Warned Against the Jews.

Read the Rest: Did Benjamin Franklin Warn Against the Jews

Posted on April 18, 2009 03:55 PM

Is there anything in Western Civilization that doesn't offend Muslims? And if there's no reason over which to get their turbans in a twist, they will fabricate one. Take for example Coca Cola. There is an Islamic Urban Legend that if you read the Coke logo in a mirror it spells out an anti-Islamic slogan in Arabic: No Mohammed, No Mecca.

Read the Rest: Starbucks Logo Offends Muslims

Posted on March 28, 2009 04:42 PM

I get a few urban legend emails every week from readers who wish for me to comment or blog on the matter. Almost every item can easily be validated as an Internet hoax, rumor, or urban myth by checking with the various debunking websites such as Snopes.com and urbanlegends.about.com. But those who forward these emails do not want the letter exposed as an urban legend, they want to believe it to be true.

Read the Rest: Pacific Palisades Charter High School Phone Message Hoax

Posted on February 7, 2009 01:36 AM

business sign: We'd Rather do business with 1000 Muslims than with a single Jew

Here is a sign above a shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One would think that after 9/11, after tens of thousands of Muslim attacks in the word that statements like this would not be tolerated by the local citizenry. The minimum we should expect is some sort mobilization by the Jewish Anti-defamation league against this store owner.

Read the Rest: We Prefer 1000 Arab Terrorists than deal with a single Jew

Posted on January 12, 2009 09:47 PM

Please allow me to share with you how "The Secret" changed my life and in a very real and substantive way allowed me to overcome a severe crisis in my personal life. It is well known that the premise of "The Secret" is the science of attracting the things in life that you desire and need and in removing from your life those things that you don't want. Before finding this book, I knew nothing of these principles, the process of positive visualization, and had actually engaged in reckless behaviors to the point of endangering my own life and wellbeing.

Read the Rest: The Secret of The Secret

Posted on December 15, 2008 11:30 PM

An avid reader of my blog, B.W. is on some master email list and gets almost every possible item circulating on the Internet. So he sent me the following email and asked me to check on it. I know what you are thinking, he can simply go to Snopes and see whether the facts stated in the email are true or not; however, B.W. doesn't simply want a true or false answer, he likes detail and he knows that I rarely give a simple answer, that I like to give good detail.

Read the Rest: The fall of the Athenian Republic Debunked

Posted on September 4, 2008 09:28 AM

That's right; the same feeble-minded, gullible dupes that fall for the Nigerian 419 Fraud scams are the same people sending money to the Obama campaign.

Read the Rest: Obama and Nigerian Frauds

Posted on May 14, 2008 08:32 AM

the UK is poised to crack down on psychics, mediums, and other spiritualists for false advertising

Read the Rest: British government cracking down on Fake Religion

Posted on February 1, 2008 05:20 PM

Smiling Bob shouldn't be smiling anymore, but unfortunately the Enz*yte ads are still running on late night TV despite being debunked online everywhere:

Read the Rest: Smiling Bob, The Enzyte Scam, and Liberal Promises

Posted on January 30, 2008 08:31 PM

This is a terrible, terrible scam. Of all the crimes that can be perpetrated against women, free medical exams like the kind below are the lowest. Look below for a hidden-camera shot of one of these scammers with his "medical equipment". Under no circumstances should any of my female readers utilize this breast exam....

Read the Rest: Breast Exam Scam

Posted on August 18, 2007 05:32 AM

The sky was gloomy that morning as we waited anxiously. All the men, women and children of Piotrkow's Jewish ghetto had been herded into a square.

Read the Rest: The Flower of the Fence

Posted on May 24, 2007 02:01 AM

Apple Computers announced recently that it has developed a computer chip that can store and play music in women's brst implants.

Read the Rest: More iProducts from Apple

Posted on May 19, 2007 05:05 PM

I get 5,000 search requests a week and monitor them to see what my readers are looking for. For the past few weeks one of the most often entered search terms was "Galilea Montijo."

Read the Rest: Galilea Montijo Video Hoax

Posted on March 29, 2007 02:40 AM

Here's a simple video: we have what appears to be a Palestinian woman, although she could be a Moroccan Jew, they dress alike; we also have a dog attacking her and Israeli soldiers who are trying to disengage the dog's grip on her arm.

Read the Rest: HOAX: Israeli soldiers unleash a dog on an elderly Palestinian woman

Posted on March 9, 2007 06:38 PM

A friend in Greece asked me to debunk an article he read alleging that Israel covered up an atrocity perpetrated on North African Jews back in the 1950s called the Ringworm Affair by conspiracy theorist and self-loathing Jew Barry Chamish.

Read the Rest: Barry Chamish and the Ringworm Children Hoax

Posted on January 17, 2007 08:55 PM

What should scare everyone is the rapid deforestation in the third world, but it has nothing to do with America. American forests are better managed than any place on earth. Worry about other things than trees in America.

Read the Rest: Liberals Cannot See the Trees for the Forests

Posted on January 5, 2007 04:25 PM

What a year! Muslims, Muslims, everywhere. We had cartoon riots, Minnesota voters send first Muslim to Capitol Hill, New UN ambassador a Muslim, the first female Muslim in space, Muslims taking over Catholic Churches in Belgium, and one-fourth of the world is now Muslim.