The Salem Witchcraft Trials and ‘Moldy Bread’: A Case Study in Fake News
Student Center 1066 Front Street, Manchester, NH, United StatesOn April 2, 1976 Science Magazine published an article by Linnda R. Caporael 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 witches could have been caused from eating bread made with flour tainted by ergot, a […]