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Did Trump's inauguration cake copy the design of Obama's 2013 inauguration cake?
We have now learned that Trump continued to offer up
Apprentice-season-four-quality optics at the “Salute to Our Troops”
inaugural ball, where he served guests a spectacular nine-tiered cake
made mostly of styrofoam. No one would have probably…
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Did millions of illegal immigrants vote in the 2016 USA election?
According to president elect Donald Trump, millions of people voted illegally:
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
I suppose referring to…
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Do people think in a language?
I was discussing some things with a psychology major, and he insisted that people always use a language to think. This is quite opposed to my own experience.
I agree that I am capable of formulating my own thoughts in a kind of internal monologue,…
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Did Einstein say the "if you judge a fish" quote that many are attributing to him?
The quote:
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to
climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is
stupid.”
I'm just not confident that this is something Einstein would say. I Googled it and was unable…
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Are these 25,000 year old pyramids in Indonesia and/or the Kola Peninsula?
This image seems to be doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment, purporting to be an ancient pyramid either in Indonesia or the Kola peninsula in Russia. Is there any evidence that it is an artificial pyramid?
The article linked to the Facebook…
user18604
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Do the majority of doctors in the USA support hydroxychloroquine use for covid-19?
The Claim
Scott Adams recently made the claim that the majority of doctors in the USA support the use of hydroxychloroquine. Normally a cartoonist's podcast would not be a notable source for a claim, so it is worth reviewing the background.
Context…
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Did a raid by a SWAT team from Joe Arpaio's office end with a house on fire and deputies laughing as a dog burned in it?
I've seen references to the article Dog Day Afternoon (Phoenix New Times, August 2004) in a few places around the internet. It tells a story of:
An incompetent SWAT team under Arpaio's jurisdiction (unprepared and damaged property)
Repeatedly…
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Have Islamic prayers been introduced into Ontario public schools while Christian ones have been removed?
Recently I saw one of those chain letters circulating that made a number of lurid claims that looked suspect for me. Here's the first such claim:
Islamic prayers have now been introduced into Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes,…
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Is the depiction of nudity or sex harmful to minors?
In other words, are the censorship & ratings of movies and other forms of art based on something more than nothing? ;) Or, in a broader sense, I am questioning the very widespread belief that kids should not be allowed to watch anything…
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Did Fox News win a court case for the right to lie?
Project Censored have an 2010 article titled The Media Can Legally Lie:
In February 2003, a Florida Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with an assertion by FOX News that there is no rule against distorting or falsifying the news in the United…
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If smoking causes lung cancer, why has a decline in smoking not led to a decline in lung cancer?
According to the CDC, smoking prevalence among US adults (18+) has decreased quite a bit over the years:
1974: 37.1% of the population
1980: 33.2
1990: 25.5
2000: 23.3
2010: 19.3
According to cancer.gov the rates of new cases of lung cancer in the…
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Is this photo of a jet firing at MH17 a fake?
An image showing a jet firing at MH17 in the Ukraine has surfaced recently and was broadcast by the official Russian state news channel, Channel One Russia.
Could this image be real?
There's an analysis that claims the image is "geometrically…
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Does water have a memory as claimed in homeopathy?
In homeopathic remedies the original substance is often diluted to a point where statistically there should be not a single molecule left of the original substance. The most common explanation by homeopaths, on how it still works although there is…
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Can Chinese people read the literature of 2,500 years ago as easily as yesterday's newspapers
Bill Bryson in his book The Mother Tongue: English And How It Got That Way, on page 110, writes:
An equally useful advantage of written Chinese is that people can read the literature of 2,500 years ago as easly as yesterday's newspapers, even…
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Did Christopher Columbus believe America was India?
Many of us might recall learning in school that when Christopher Columbus reached the New World, he believed that he had reached India. For that reason, Native Americans are often called Indians.
However, Wikipedia claims he actually knew where he…
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