29 Ridiculous 'News' Stories You Thought Were True In 2015

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29 Ridiculous 'News' Stories You Thought Were True In 2015

We're living in a new age of yellow journalism. Except instead of the news making baseless claims against public figures, reporting non-stories as the end of the world, taking barely substantiated stories at face value, and ... oh, wow. Nope, really doesn't look like there's a big difference between the news media today and the yellow press of the Pulitzer/Hearst days.

So with that in mind, we enlisted the aid of the Purveyor of Truth AuntieMeme to debunk some of the biggest stories you believed this year. Get ready to be the life of all the holiday parties.

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BS NEVIS Sites like CBS Local, Inquisitr, and India Today told the story of a Catholic priest who was declared dead for 48 whole minutes before being

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BS NEVIS This September, entertainment news site Variety announced the death of Monty Python memberl noted director Terry Gilliam. Monty Python's Terr

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BS NEVIS You might remember the time McDonald's dabbled in pizza, with wildly unsuccessful results. Time, BGR, Thrillist, Yahoo, and RYOT recently rep

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BS NEVIS The news outlets lost their minds this year over a topless Instagram photo by Will and Jada Smith's daughter Willow. Willow Smith's Topless

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BS NEVIS When CNN ran a story about a Texas A&M University professor failing an entire class as a form of tough love, people ate it up. Look out, mi

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BS NEVIS People who drink their coffee black are more likely to be sadists and psychopaths, according to a widely-cited study that made the rounds on

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BS NEVIS CBS, Slate, and Daily Mail reported this year that the high levels of arsenic in low-priced wines is going to kill everyone who drinks them.

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