McDonald’s and World Peace

Trouble viewing? [Click here.]( Daily Debunker 26 December 2018 According to a tongue-in-cheek theory advanced by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas Friedman, no two countries with McDonald’s franchises have ever gone to war with one another. Friedman’s so-called “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention” was meant to loosely illustrate the impact of globalism on foreign policy, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying to take it literally. With that in mind, we decided to break down the numbers and see how often the theory has actually held true. The results were less than promising. [Read more]( Dear Reader Big Gifts Come in No Packaging at All: Snopes.com fights misinformation 365 days a year. Help us stay strong. Make a direct contribution today. [Contribute with PayPal]( Rumor Roundup Bananarama. Is this what’s in a banana? An “ingredients label” for a banana was created by a high-school chemistry teacher as part of a lesson on chemophobia. ([True]() Wait for It. 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