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‘Zombie facts’ live on after black plastic and other studies get corrected or retracted

‘Zombie facts’ live on after black plastic and other studies get corrected or retracted

Headlines warning people to throw out their black plastic kitchen utensils live on, as do social media posts warning of “secret toxins” in your kitchen. Less prominent? A correction to the peer-reviewed study those headlines were based on.

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