Monday, March 2nd, 2015

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Republican from Kentucky

Rand Paul is a U.S. senator from Kentucky. A physician by trade, Paul defeated Democrat Jack Conway in 2010 for the seat formerly held by Sen. Jim Bunning.

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Half-True

25 percent is error, not fraud, rate

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Rand Paul

"When you look at the earned income tax credit, it has about a 25 percent fraud rate. We're looking at $20 billion to $30 billion."

False

It's much, much less

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Rand Paul

"Over half the people on disability are either anxious or their back hurts."

Mostly False

The Ebola scare continues

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Rand Paul

Ebola is "incredibly contagious," "very transmissible" and "easy to catch."

Mostly True

But not your traditional origami

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Rand Paul

"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."

— PolitiFact Virginia

Half-True

Correlation does not equal causation

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Rand Paul

"Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors."

Recent stories featuring Rand Paul

PolitiFact's 5 most-viewed fact checks from January

The State of the Union address -- and Joni Ernst's Republican response -- were some of the biggest draws in January for PolitiFact readers.

Rand Paul on 'walking, talking' children who end up with 'profound mental disorders after vaccines'

We take a look at the facts and evidence behind a recent statement by Sen. Rand Paul about children who "wound up with profound mental disorders" after vaccines.

 

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And the top-read Virginia Truth-O-Meter from 2014 is...

State Sen. George Barker's statement that uncompsensated care costs went down 30 percent in states that, unlike Virginia, expanded Medicaid. Here's our review of that claim and four others that generated the most interest in 2014.  

Some politicians spoke the truth in 2014

We published lots of Falses and Pants on Fires this year, but here's a hat-tip to a sampling of claims that earned a full True rating.

Rand Paul on the Truth-O-Meter

We've recently fact-checked statements by or about Rand Paul, the Republican senator from Kentucky and a possible 2016 contender. 

 

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