Re: When I want to check the accuracy of some widely held belief, I use:

It's odd. It's reached the point where I verify and "fact" that seems alarmist. Regardless of the subject matter.

"Politician says he'd stone gays!" Fact check -- False
"Dogs die if you give them ice!" Fact check -- False
"Sea levels are rising at unprecedented rates!" Fact check -- False

It seems that any sentence that ends with an exclamation point lately is false. What's the world coming to?

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Re^2: When I want to check the accuracy of some widely held belief, I use: by chacham (Prior) on Jun 20, 2014 at 13:02 UTC
Newsflash: Statements that end with exclamation points are false! Ironically, the exclamation point takes the shebang out of it.	[reply]
Re^3: When I want to check the accuracy of some widely held belief, I use: by ChuckularOne (Prior) on Jun 20, 2014 at 13:24 UTC
Hmmm... So the irony of your intrinsic irony is that it causes the following conundrum: Should up or down vote that. :-)	[reply]
Re^4: When I want to check the accuracy of some widely held belief, I use: by chacham (Prior) on Jun 23, 2014 at 18:55 UTC
Should up or down vote that. Yes, yes you should. (Hard as it was, i withheld the exclamation point from that sentence!)	[reply]
Re^2: When I want to check the accuracy of some widely held belief, I use: by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2014 at 04:02 UTC
As an anonymous NSA source, I'm glad that I'll be able to inform my superiors that our plot to weaken the exclamation point is "working as intended!" Next on our list is the question mark?	[reply]