Reality Check Podcast: Tylenol and the Mormon Church Shooting
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Reality Check Podcast: Tylenol and the Mormon Church Shooting
This week’s episode covers the unfounded hysteria surrounding a rumored spike in Tylenol overdoses among pregnant women supposedly looking to spite President Trump. We also unpack a prominent false claim about the Michigan Mormon church shooting, highlighting the growing trend of assigning fake political identities to suspects in the aftermath of mass tragedies.
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