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“Scandals and Trials”

Aug 3, 2011 08:40 AM ET // Benjamin Radford
The family of a man who died in a Sept. 11 plane crash is asking to be paid for her son's fear and suffering, but what's it worth?
May 27, 2011 03:20 PM ET // Benjamin Radford
A five-year study pins the blame for abuse not on the priests, but on the culture of the 1960s. Really?
Jun 13, 2011 10:05 AM ET // Benjamin Radford
The woman who misled Texas police insists that she never claimed to be psychic -- only a prophet of God.
Jan 11, 2011 07:02 PM ET // Benjamin Radford
Just when it seems the scandal surrounding Andrew Wakefield can't get any worse, it does.
Mar 26, 2010 05:33 PM ET // Benjamin Radford
It was a horrible crime against a young child that made headlines around the world: A seven-year-old girl named Somer Thompson vanished while walking home from school one day in October 2009. Her parents suspected the worst--partly because of high-profile news stories about other missing kids. Inde...
Nov 10, 2010 09:07 AM ET // Benjamin Radford
A recent news story claimed that a Russian woman tried to sell her two-year-old daughter for her organs. Don't believe it.
Mar 28, 2011 09:28 AM ET // Benjamin Radford
Barry Bonds claims to have unknowingly taken drugs. If his claim is true, it might be only the tip of a wider epidemic.
Dec 14, 2009 03:32 AM ET // Ian O'Neill
On Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was attacked and injured during a political rally in Milan. The embattled politician sustained two broken teeth, a fractured nose and cuts after a member of the crowd hurled a scale model of Milan's Cathedral at the PM's face. Berlusconi was rushe...
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