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Is canthaxanthin used in salmon farming toxic to human health?
Founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace, "Captain" Paul Watson (captain in what, I don't know) stated that
Farmed Salmon is Poison
70% of salmon produced worldwide is farmed,
That contains artificial dyes.farm raised salmon is not…
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Did a Turkish cargo ship get bombed in the Black Sea during the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
In a Discord server, someone pointed out the following article by Russian state news media about a Turkish cargo ship which was reportedly hit by a bomb on the way from Odessa to Romania:
Turkish Cargo Ship in Black Sea Reportedly Hit by 'Bomb' en…
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The mystery of "Numbers Stations"
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From NoiseAddicts:
"Static. Faint voices. Seven slow, monotonous tones. A pause.
Suddenly, you hear music–one of those wind-up songs played by a
child’s toy. The melody repeats three times. A pause. Suddenly, you
hear a female voice…
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Will putting a car remote under your chin increase its range?
Image source: Miniseed blog
I've heard this before and anecdotally have thought I've experienced it working, but I thought I'd ask here. Many years ago, someone told me that putting a car remote (unlock/lock/alarm/auto-start) under my chin would…
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Does Kasardevi, India, have an enormous geomagnetic field because of the Van Allen Belt?
An online magazine says this about Kasardevi:
What makes the place what it is, is its positioning on the earth’s Van Allen Belt. Simply put, the region surrounding the Kasar Devi Temple has an enormous geomagnetic field, thanks to gaps in bands of…
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Do surgical masks help prevent the spread of COVID-19 from infected members of the public?
One of the most politicised scientific issues of 2020 was the question about whether face-masks stop the spread of COVID-19.
Here are some specific examples:
Australian Department of Health (generalised to "masks")
Mayo Clinic
Science Daily
Tweet…
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Do commercial airline pilots make around $19,000 - $25,000 per year?
I always thought pilots were paid well. I am currently watching the movie "Capitalism, A love Story," and Michael Moore interviews some pilots, in which the pilots say they make around $19,000 - $25,000 per year as their starting salary flying…
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Is the "Tribe meets White Man for the First Time" video fake?
Is this video fake?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHYbsXt05k
Most of the links according this video have no information besides the video itself and are very recent. How should I proceed to get more information about this expedition?
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Are these pictures of Osama Bin Laden with Obama, Rice and Hillary Clinton authentic?
I saw a post on Facebook with these pictures:
They apparently show Osama Bin Laden with Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Are these authentic pictures of actual meetings?
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Has the flu already killed 20,000 Americans during 2019-20 flu season?
Fox News has this article titled "Flu has killed 20K Americans including 136 children so far [as of March 2020] in this [2019-20] flu season, CDC says".
The CDC said that so far this season, 34 million people have gotten the flu, and about 20,000…
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Is this picture of Trump, Bloomberg, and Clinton playing golf real?
Picture reads "it's big club and you ain't in it", and has Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg, and Clinton.
That's quite similar to this tweet of the same Image without the caption by Glenn Greenwald
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Are sunscreens necessary?
There are many warnings of skin cancer due to exposure to sun, which have turned sunscreen lotions/creams/sprays into a big industry.
Apart from the problem in the product, my question is, are sunscreens needed? Today's average Joe is less exposed…
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Did Chinese school textbook maps (c. 1951) "depict China as stretching even into the central Asian republics"?
In Marshall (Prisoners of Geography, 2015) writes:
In 1951, China annexed Tibet (another vast non-Han territory) and by then Chinese school textbook maps began to depict China as stretching even into the central Asian republics.
Is the claim (in…
user17967
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Does the Idaho Potato Commission associate potato skins with healthy eating?
A person is suing TGI Friday's for false advertising regarding their bagged "Potato Skins" snacks. Part of the claim is that potato skins are associated with healthy eating, which makes the snack stand out among other bagged, crisp snacks.
The…
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When John McCain was shot down was his mission to bomb a civilian light bulb factory?
From RT, "Trump is right (but only on this): McCain is no war hero"
John McCain flew ground-attack aircraft from carriers in the US Navy. He was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967 and spent the next six years as a prisoner of the Vietnamese, whom…
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