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A growing claim by employee law litigators and on social media is that wage theft is the largest form of theft in the United States. Often it is said that wage theft “dwarfs” any other form of theft, that it is three times larger than other types of theft combined, or that it is an order of magnitude larger than retail theft. Wage theft is a serious problem, but these are all false claims.
A surprisingly pervasive chemistry myth has been popping up for over two decades now. The unsourced claim is typically that margarine is “one molecule away from plastic” or “one molecule away from formaldyhyde”. It is not clear where this false claim originated, but it often pops up on social media or by self-proclaimed “nutritionists.” Recently, British celebrity chef James Martin repeated the falsehood as “two elements away from plastic.”