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Can shrimp and vitamin C kill you?

26 January 2012by Angela 22 Comments

No. Well, that’s the short answer anyway. Today I received an email from a reader which claimed (in broken English – not the reader’s) that eating shrimp or prawns while […]

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Hoaxes, Press Delete
A banana

Flesh eating bananas with poisonous skins!

24 November 2011by Angela 13 Comments

  There are a lot of ways a banana can kill you: choking, allergy, well placed knife, but one  way that they will not kill you is via a flesh eating […]

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Hoaxes
out of order

Toilet Stall attacks

16 November 2011by Angela 1 Comment

The festive season is upon us and South African’s are getting ready for our two favourite pass-times: Shopping and Crime (okay, maybe drinking beer and swearing at the neighbours are […]

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Hoaxes, Uncategorized
A Tornado

Tornadoes in Joburg this weekend?

12 October 2011by Angela 31 Comments

This morning I received an e-mail claiming that gale force winds and tornadoes would hit Johannesburg this weekend and that these would be accompanied by massive winds. Here is the e-mail in […]

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Hoaxes
Aderoid supidity

Will Aderoid be our second sun this June?

13 June 2011by Angela 6 Comments

Yay! It has been a long, looooooong time since I got a chain e-mail full of nonsense that I could blast out of the water. Today I received the following […]

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Hoaxes

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Angela is a professional writer by day and an avid amateur scientist by night. With a growing sense of wonder at the beauty and simplicity of the natural world she tries to keep her eyes (and her keyboard) firmly targeted on the truth. Angela dedicates most of her free time to smacking quacks, debunking chain e-mails and exposing myths. Whenever possible she pursues nerdy activities such as reading and games.

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