Halloween’s here, and you may be seeing social media posts like these about the dangers of brightly colored pills sometimes called “rainbow fentanyl.” Great fact-check from MediaWise's Teen Fact-Checking Network Poynter
Every year it seems like kids are being warned about razor blades in apples, needles in chocolate and poisoned Pixie sticks. Well, here’s a media lit tip: If something seems really scary, it might not be totally true. Let’s take a look at the bigger picture and figure it out., which quotes University of Delaware professor Joel Best, probably the nation’s top expert on Halloween candy rumors — his data dates back to 1958.
And what he says might surprise you: “I cannot find a single case of a child killed or seriously injured by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating.” Best does cite one exception. A father in 1974 laced his children’s candy with cyanide, killing one, in an effort to collect life insurance. He was arrested.
But, as Best said, “that’s not what people are worried about when they ask whether it’s safe to go trick-or-treating.”
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