A tale of fake news: this story made the front page of Reddit today and I decided to click the link.  I noticed that the source, NPR, was one I generally trusted, but the link was to an image and not the original NPR story.  I got suspicious.

A five second google search revealed two things:

1) The story was written in 2011 and  2) there was an editor’s note.

Editor’s note, March 10, 2019: In recent days, this 2011 story has been circulating on social media with an altered Facebook headline that was not created by NPR. The headline and story published here are accurate as originally published in 2011.