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Are 42% of human deaths worldwide from abortion?
Lately, social media has been flooded with all sorts of "facts" about abortion. This one in particular caught my attention:
42% of yearly deaths in the world are from abortion
A worldwide crisis
I don't want this to degrade into an argument about…
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Does the ratio of ¹⁴C in the atmosphere show that fossil fuels are not the dominant cause of global warming?
I stumbled upon the following paper
Skrable et al. (2022)
The specific activity of ¹⁴C in the atmosphere gets reduced by a dilution effect when fossil CO₂, which is devoid of ¹⁴C, enters the atmosphere. We have used the results of this effect to…
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Did Russia release lions onto the streets to keep people in isolation?
I've seen the below image circulating on Facebook:
(source: pressablecdn.com)
They are claiming lions are being used to keep Russians indoors during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Did Bernie Sanders say immigrants steal our jobs?
In an interview with the former Maryland governor, Martin O’Malley, that appeared in The Guardian there are some notable claims that I haven't heard of till now. For example, this part refers to Bernie Sanders (emphasis mine):
Here’s a guy who has…
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Was adding milk to tea started to reduce employee tea break time?
I was talking about the all important Tea Making Process to a fellow Brit the other day, and he told me that the real reason we add milk to tea is: “It cools the tea down, so you can drink it faster. It was a trick used by factory owners back in the…
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Did the United States reject an offer by North Korea to freeze their nuclear missile development?
In a recent interview, Noam Chomksy claims that the United States rejected an offer from North Korea and China that would have frozen the North Korean nuclear missile program in exchange for the United States stopping military maneuvers in the…
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Does the cardboard box cost more than the corn in cornflakes?
In today's edition of CNN Student News (transcript), devoted to the topic "breakfast cereal", the following claim was made:
Let`s start with the cereal itself. At its core, cereal is actually the grain, like corn, oats or wheat. These energy dense…
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Did Ray Bradbury ever claim that "Fahrenheit 451" was not about censorship?
One of the persons I follow on twitter recently linked this article. It contains the following claims:
[Ray Bradbury] has always insisted that the main theme of the book is
the role of the mass media and its effect on the populace
virtually…
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Can black people, on average, jump higher than white people?
Most people hear this in one form or another at some point in their life, especially those kids who play basketball.
Even videos of white guys who have excellent jumping ability stress the fact that they are white — "A true white kid that can jump"…
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Is there any explanation for a near-death experience?
One idea I used to hear a lot about was that when people are near-death and saved by medical science that they sometimes see "a light at the end of a tunnel" in a vision.
Today I read about an article about a new best-seller from an ambitious…
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Did Abner Schoenwetter spend 6.5 years in jail because he used plastic bags instead of cardboard boxes when importing lobsters from Honduras?
Forbes states that:
Abner Schoenwetter was importing seafood to sell to U.S. restaurants for over 12 years from Honduras. Those shipments were overseen by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who inspected the shipments and found everything…
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Do doctors "get more money if somebody dies from Covid”?
Source (one of many).
At a rally in Michigan on Friday (Oct 30th, 2020), President Trump repeated an
extraordinary and unfounded claim that American doctors were
profiteering from coronavirus deaths.
“You know our doctors get more money if somebody…
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Will unsubscribing from spam get you even more spam?
To quote Rick's Spam Digest:
It’s just too likely that the spammer uses the “removal” feature as a means to compile lists of known-deliverable e-mail addresses, and you could simply wind up getting more spam for your trouble.
Phil Bradley…
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Does New York City legally recognize 31 different genders?
Several news sources (for example, The Odyssey Online and the Toronto Sun in 2016) claim that New York City recognizes 31 distinct genders. On the other hand, an article from the Huffington Post claims that New York City just started offering a…
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Is it less dangerous to box without gloves than with gloves?
From this YouTube video by Today I Found Out,
Most pertinent here, is that neither boxer would be wearing gloves in such a classic match. As paradoxical as it sounds, boxing without gloves is actually widely considered to be safer than boxing with…
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