Today Cracked.com has a “Pictofacts” piece and the Straight Dope is cited for one of the 12 items!
12 Things You Believe Because Propaganda Told You To
The Straight Dope is cited in #2 for Does a mattress double its weight due to dust mites and their debris?
Dang, I didn’t know the carrot bit was just propaganda.
I don’t see any citations. Just the ‘posters’.
Bottom right corner of the image, Johnny.
Cites are at the bottom of each “poster”. Petty small print though.
I just had another birthday, which means I’m old! I’m supposed to read that with my eyes? 
Thanks.
Try eating some carrots. They’re good for your vision.
Time for some Summer’s Eve mouthwash too.
Vaginas are self-cleaning? 
Just like an oven, my dear catfish.
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My self cleaning oven gets clean after I turn it on and get it hot. Would that be the same with a vagina?
Just be careful that there isn’t a bun in the oven.
Others were whining about it, but I like that they changed the name from Photoplasty, since these types of things aren’t really photo manipulation (even if it was the bulk of what I was taught how to do in my Photoshop class).
They didn’t change the name; they added a name. They still do Photoplasty. It looks like that’s the “creative use of photoshop” moniker while Pictofacts is, um, just pictures with facts, no manipulation necessary.
Yes, but they used to call these photoplasties, too.
Yes; that’s why i said “they added a name.”
Your post implied that all photoshopped features had their name changed. That is incorrect. I was correcting that implication.
I have a problem with #6: “Bottled water is so much better than tap water … Surprise. It is tap water.” I trust that the other items are more accurate than that one.
The cite is a 2007 CNN Money article that talks about the Aquafina and Dasani brands from Pepsi and Coca Cola, respectively. It’s true that those particular brands originate from tap water sources and that fact was not originally clear from the labeling, and Pepsi promised to change the labeling at the time though to my knowledge Coca Cola did not. But even for those brands, both undergo purification through reverse osmosis and additional treatment like the addition of minerals or sterilization, so it’s misleading to call it just tap water. More importantly, in areas where clean natural spring water is abundant, that’s what most bottled water is. Around here, virtually every brand (except those two, I presume) is spring water bottled at the source named on the label. To give the impression that all bottled water is just the same water that comes out of your garden hose is grossly inaccurate.
There might be some places where bottled water is spring water. But in those places, the water that comes out of your hose will be spring water, too.
Not at all. Most of the drinking water in this area comes from the Great Lakes, most from Lake Ontario, which is then superficially cleaned up and chlorinated. At some level you might argue that all water is the same water, but this crap that comes out of the tap is far different than water that is bottled from a northern spring. Chlorination is probably part of it, and different impurities/minerals or lack thereof another part. Personally I find that spring water tastes clean and enjoyable, and tap water tastes like crap. To be fair, properly purified tap water that’s gone through a good multi-step filtration system is generally pretty tolerable. It might just be my sensitivity to chlorine, but as drinking water I consider tap water to be an emergency backup.
The one on multi-vitamins is pretty misleading, IMO.
The research says that if you eat a complete diet, multi-vitamins don’t do much. Plus, there’s a danger of getting too much of some things, like iron.
But a whole lot of people don’t eat a complete diet and really are deficient in some things. And a quality multi-vitamin can help those people, so long as the pay attention to not getting too much of stuff that is plentiful in their diet.