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By Angie Drobnic Holan
Published on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 7:45 p.m.
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John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population."
Glenn Beck, Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009.
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"The Senate voted this week to allow illegal aliens access to Social Security benefits."
Chain e-mail, Tuesday, July 14th, 2009.
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Readers asked us to check a claim that the Senate passed a bill giving Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants. Guess what? It's wrong!
Glenn Beck, meanwhile, said that President Barack Obama's top science adviser "has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population." That's wrong, too.
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