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15 Jan 2020
The claim about vampire-related sex education in schools was based on a poorly sourced Facebook post from an obscure group called Informed Parents of Washington, rather than verified textbooks.

A post on this Facebook page for a group called Informed Parents of Washington that claimed that there was a book called Sex that was on the suggested reading list for high school students. 12th grade. No. Okay. First problem, this is just a Facebook page, which is not a sturdy foundation to use as the base for your reporting.

06 Sep 2019
The primary sources for Steve Pieczenik's biography are articles written by Robert C. Toth, which cite only Pieczenik himself as a source.

That is taken that gets in his bio, and that's taken directly from an article in the L.A. Times written by Robert C. Toth. Toth doesn't say who credited Steve as creating these things. And if you read the article, Steve is the only source cited and the only person quoted about anything. This seems important to me because the article is about Steve's involvement in the negotiations to free kidnapped Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. And I know in that article he is not being entirely honest about the situation that he was involved in, which we'll get to later. But the fact that Steve is the only source in that article and he's being duplicitous to some extent makes me question it. That's where all the things that cite his bio are cited. That's the evidence that it comes back to.

17 Jun 2019
Alex Jones reads Press TV and Iranian domestic government statements to verify his claims.

Because I read press TV. I've been on press TV about a hundred times. And I just got too tired. I don't go on BBC, Press TV, really any of it anymore. Everybody knows that. Because he's tired. We don't work for Iran because I've gone on their national television over a hundred times. I kind of think you work for Iran now. I read what their government says and what they say domestically.

22 Apr 2019
The Skeptoid article Alex Jones cites to justify his conspiracy theories actually condemns his worldview.

It says this of that, quote, This entire theory seems to have caught fire thanks to a post from Alex Jones acolyte Mike Adams trying to turn a tragedy into a conspiracy. It goes on to say, It goes on to say, While the headline that Alex reads seems to look good for Alex's point, the body of the article is actually a condemnation of his worldview and the way he and his team try and exploit tragedies.