# Overblown headlines
**URL:** https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013
**Category:** News and current events
**Created:** [9 June 2018 06:10 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013 "2018-06-09T06:10:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Tweefo](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/Tweefo)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 06:10 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/1 "2018-06-09T06:10:56Z")
The headline in my newsfeed reads "Moon landing SCHOCK: NASA tapes lost in 1970 expose biggest SECRET of the century. The story under the headline? Not the biggest expose of a secret. [https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiWmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV4cHJlc3MuY28udWsvbmV3cy9zY2llbmNlLzk3MTUwNy9Nb29uLWxhbmRpbmctTkFTQS10YXBlcy1BcG9sbG8tc3BhY2UtbWlzc2lvbtIBngFodHRwczovL3d3dy1leHByZXNzLWNvLXVrLmNkbi5hbXBwcm9qZWN0Lm9yZy92L3Mvd3d3LmV4cHJlc3MuY28udWsvbmV3cy9zY2llbmNlLzk3MTUwNy9Nb29uLWxhbmRpbmctTkFTQS10YXBlcy1BcG9sbG8tc3BhY2UtbWlzc2lvbi9hbXA\_YW1wX2pzX3Y9MC4xI3dlYnZpZXc9MQ?hl=en-ZA&gl=ZA&ceid=ZA%3Aen](https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiWmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV4cHJlc3MuY28udWsvbmV3cy9zY2llbmNlLzk3MTUwNy9Nb29uLWxhbmRpbmctTkFTQS10YXBlcy1BcG9sbG8tc3BhY2UtbWlzc2lvbtIBngFodHRwczovL3d3dy1leHByZXNzLWNvLXVrLmNkbi5hbXBwcm9qZWN0Lm9yZy92L3Mvd3d3LmV4cHJlc3MuY28udWsvbmV3cy9zY2llbmNlLzk3MTUwNy9Nb29uLWxhbmRpbmctTkFTQS10YXBlcy1BcG9sbG8tc3BhY2UtbWlzc2lvbi9hbXA_YW1wX2pzX3Y9MC4xI3dlYnZpZXc9MQ?hl=en-ZA&gl=ZA&ceid=ZA%3Aen)
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### Author:  [@brianvds](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/brianvds)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 09:37 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/2 "2018-06-09T09:37:01Z")
Oh, the papers are great at this: creating juicy headlines that make you almost desperate to read the story, which inevitably disappoints. Click bait has been around for longer than computer mice. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Tweefo](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/Tweefo)
#### Post date: [9 June 2018 11:32 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/3 "2018-06-09T11:32:03Z")
And there I was, expecting at least all future Powerball numbers, chiseled into the moon rock at the Apollo landing sites, by our cosmic overlords.
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### Author:  [@BoogieMonster](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/BoogieMonster)
#### Post date: [11 June 2018 09:06 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/4 "2018-06-11T09:06:50Z")
General rules: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with “No”. Any headline containing the words shocking, amazing, “will blow you away”, crazy, etc… will not be.
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### Author:  [@Brian](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/Brian)
#### Post date: [12 June 2018 14:34 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/5 "2018-06-12T14:34:51Z")
see: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5Pj6GQL2o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5Pj6GQL2o)
What do you think?
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### Author:  [@BoogieMonster](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/BoogieMonster)
#### Post date: [12 June 2018 14:58 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/6 "2018-06-12T14:58:20Z")
> [@Brian post:5](#):
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> see: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5Pj6GQL2o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr5Pj6GQL2o)
> What do you think?
The title seems fairly accurate.
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### Author:  [@brianvds](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/brianvds)
#### Post date: [29 June 2018 04:44 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/7 "2018-06-29T04:44:44Z")
And here we go again:
Massive Genetic Study Reveals 90 Percent Of Earth’s Animals Appeared At The Same Time
> **[Massive Genetic Study Reveals 90 Percent Of Earth’s Animals Appeared At The...](https://www.techtimes.com/articles/228798/20180530/massive-genetic-study-reveals-90-percent-of-earth-s-animals-appeared-at-the-same-time.htm)**
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> The latest research is debunking current knowledge about evolution. After studying 5 million genetic barcodes, scientists found 90 percent of species on Earth may have emerged around the same time as humans.
But if you look through the original study linked to from that article, you see that it is not what it says at all.
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### Author:  [@BoogieMonster](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/BoogieMonster)
#### Post date: [29 June 2018 08:19 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/8 "2018-06-29T08:19:35Z")
> analyzing millions of DNA barcodes
Right there in the first sentence is the first hint that this article is going to suck…
Correcting myself: This is apparently a thing.
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### Author:  [@brianvds](https://forum.skepticza.org/u/brianvds)
#### Post date: [29 June 2018 08:59 UTC](https://forum.skepticza.org/t/overblown-headlines/5013/9 "2018-06-29T08:59:48Z")
> [@BoogieMonster post:8](#):
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> > analyzing millions of DNA barcodes
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> Right there in the first sentence is the first hint that this article is going to suck…
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> Correcting myself: This is apparently a thing.
Yup, I also initially thought that’s crap, but apparently it’s a thing. Nevertheless, the original research does not, as far as I can work out, state that almost all species appeared at the same time. It states that almost all species are descended from small founder populations that existed at the same time, which is not the same thing as saying they all came into existence at the same time. Might simply be genetic bottlenecks - perhaps there was a major natural catastrophe which hugely reduced almost all populations.
I can bet the creationists are going to be all over this before long. 🙂