The Salem Witchcraft Trials and ‘Moldy Bread’: A Case Study in Fake News

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On April 2, 1976, Science Magazine published an article by Linnda R. Caporeal which posited that during the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, the visions of specters and painful physical sensations described by the girls who claimed to be afflicted by …

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