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Did two Native Americans shipwreck in Holland in 60 B.C.?
According to the book "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong", by James W. Loewen, or at least the online sources (Cracked.com and some sites that I Googled) that cite it, two (native, obviously) Americans…
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Have communist governments killed more than 80 million people?
It's May Day, while Communist regimes celebrated this day, others mourn. Specifically there are claims that communist governments have killed 80 to 100 million people in the last 100 years. Are communist governments directly responsible for over…
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Were pyramids of glass found under the Bermuda Triangle?
Making the rounds is this story about glass pyramids underwater at the Bermuda Triangle. They're claiming they were discovered by an oceanographer but they I find no mention of this story in popular press and no actual scientific articles…
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Are "pox parties" safer than vaccines for children?
So-called pox parties have been around in various forms in varying degrees of popularity since the 1980's, and are described on Wikipedia as:
A pox party, or flu party or flu fling, is a social activity where children are deliberately exposed to a…
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Is professional software development discriminatory?
It's quite a common experience that there are fewer women and African (-American) people in programming as warranted by the natural proportions. It is not so obvious whether this is due to discrimination or cultural differences (the difference being…
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Is allowing an infant to cry harmful to its development?
Possible Duplicate:
Is sleep training a form of neglect or harmful?
One of the most popular schools of thought regarding modern parenting is that not immediately responding to an infant's (typically age 6 months to 1 year) crying will result in…
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Did Hitler survive until 1962?
I noticed this book, "Grey Wolf: The Escape Of Adolf Hitler", mentioned (without real criticism) in a major Icelandic newspaper. According to the article, the book claims Hitler did not kill himself, and the authors claim to have proof that he lived…
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Is the "wind lens" a breakthrough in wind energy?
In this video a "brim" is placed around a wind turbine and the power generated doubles. A simple static mechanism that doubles the efficiency of a turbine seems too good to be true. Is this a legitimate breakthrough?
Additional links (but they all…
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Is there an increase in whale deaths due to windfarms?
During a recent speech in North Carolina, Donald Trump blamed offshore wind farms for the rise in whale deaths.
Trump made the remarks about offshore wind’s possible link to the surge in baleen whale deaths along the East Coast during a campaign…
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Did the Covid vaccines lower fertility rates via causing infertility?
In this Slay News article, linked to by popular right-wing aggregator Off The Press:
According to independent journalist JD Rucker, the establishment media and their allies are ignoring the obvious. “Ever since the rollout of Covid-19 ‘vaccines,’…
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Are airplanes the safest mode of transportation?
Considering the number of people that use it compared to other transports (cars, trains, boats), do you have less chances to die in a plane?
Are there any studies about this?
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Has the United States only ratified 5 of 18 international treaties on human rights?
A recent opinion piece in the English edition of Le Monde Diplomatique makes passing reference to the idea that the United States "has ratified only five of the 18 international human rights treaties."
That seems a little low, and possibly outdated.…
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Is the effectiveness of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against Omicron negative after three months?
This popular tweet (over 10000 retweets) claims that:
This study shows that after three months the vaccine effectiveness of
Pfizer & Moderna against Omicron is actually negative. Pfizer
customers are 76.5% more likely and Moderna customers are…
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Is methane responsible for nearly one-third of all global warming to date?
A recent BBC article says that the latest IPCC report says methane is responsible for 0.3°C out of 1.1°C of all cumulative warming since pre-industrial times.
According to the IPCC, around 0.3C of the 1.1C that the world has already warmed by comes…
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Does wearing a face mask cause intermittent hypoxia?
There's a study that concluded that wearing face masks for extended periods of time (8h-10h) causes a hypoxia:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8152240/
COVID-19 virus has caused the world’s deadliest pandemic. Early April 2020, the…
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