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Are the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna vegan?
The mRNA vaccines from both Pfizer and Moderna contain cholesterol.
On the website for the UK National Health System NHS we may read:
The COVID-19 vaccines do not contain egg or animal products.
Another report indicates it contains no…
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Are vaccinated children significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated, as recent study claims?
In their 2020 study termed "Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination" [full text], appearing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Lyons-Weiler et…
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Is asymptomatic spread of SARS-CoV-2 rare?
On 2020-06-08, Maria Van Kerkhove (WHO COVID-19 technical lead) stated:
From the data we have, it still seems to be rare that an asymptomatic person actually transmits onward to a secondary individual.
We have a number of reports from countries who…
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Has the number of pneumonia deaths in the US dramatically dropped in 2020?
A widely-commented upon post on reddit claims that pneumonia deaths in the US have "fallen off a cliff this year":
In the conversation I saw several links to CDC data, but they are unclear overviews. The diagram includes a link to the raw data…
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Did Hitler say this quote about education?
On How Hitler Stopped Homeschooling they say Hitler said this:
“The youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a…
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Can a US President's declaration of emergency be overridden by simple majorities of both chambers of Congress?
Jennifer Rubin writes in the Washington Post that:
[the US President's] declaration of an emergency can be overridden by a simple majority of both houses
Is it true that a presidential declaration of emergency in the US can be overridden by simple…
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Were many former American slaves put back into virtual slavery after the civil war?
The ACLU has been a critic of the 13th amendment to the US constitution for some time, claiming that the clause that reads that slavery shall not exist "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted" is a loophole…
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Is monosodium glutamate (MSG) bad for you?
Anecdotal evidence blames the consumption of MSG for several symptoms such as headache, nausea, weakness, heart palpitations etc. Most migraine literature cites MSG as a potential trigger (example) but usually without any scientific basis. A quick…
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Was JFK's 1960 election win due to fraud?
I found via politics.SE that MRC-owned site Newsbusters claims that:
In a discussion of modern electoral fraud, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Monday offered a journalistic admission: She conceded that the 1960 presidential election was “obviously”…
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Does vegetarian sweat smell better?
I've read this article online in a Belgian newspaper (in Dutch): Weet wat je zweet: deze 7 dingen wist je nog niet over zweten — HLN.
Number 4 is saying that vegetarian sweat smells better then non vegetarian sweat.
I've done some research and…
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In the past did Martin Shkreli offer free medication for those who could not afford it?
Martin Shkreli was a businessman in the pharmaceutical industry who became famous several years ago when his company increased some drug prices by a huge factor.
I recently watched this video of him in court; to my surprise, I saw multiple people…
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Does China control 85% of the supply of rare metals used in lithium batteries?
A selected letter in The Guardian talking about electric vehicles claims:
The rare metals in lithium batteries are produced only in inconvenient places. More than 85% of the world’s supply comes from China. How dependent will that make us upon…
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Did the city of Berlin set up safe zones for women for New Year’s Eve 2017/2018?
The BBC has reported that the city of Berlin was setting up “safe zones” for women for New Year’s Eve. It was very heavily reported on by RT, Sputnik and other media. New Year's Eve party in Berlin to have 'safe zone' for women
Organisers of…
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Was a massive case of voter fraud uncovered in Florida?
Dennis Michel Lynch's website has a report that election officials for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections (SOE) in Florida were seen fraudulently filling in absentee votes.
An affidavit of the witness (Chelsey Marie Smith) was…
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Do women prefer men with a sense of humor?
I think everyone may have heard this at one time or another, but it's said that women prefer men with a "good sense of humor". The idea is so commonly held, it even has its own abbreviation on dating services: GSOH. I know I've seen this claim…
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