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Does electrolyzed reduced water (ERW) extend the lifespan of animals (compared to regular water)?
Among the research interests of Dr. Pablo Campra (of recent graphite-in-Covid-vaccines claim) is something called electrolyzed reduced water (ERW). One of the (Asian) groups studying this presents is ...
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Are these occurences of the mathematical constants e and pi in The Bible at all exceptional? [closed]
This article translates the first verses of Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1, into Hebrew and Greek numeric values, then uses a single formula on both to get good approximations for e and pi, each times large ...
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Do quinoa flakes have the same nutritional profile as whole quinoa?
Purcell Mountain Farms sell "Quinoa flakes", which they claim
retain all of the nutritional properties of the supergrain
Similarly, an answerer at Askville claims:
Quinoa Flakes have been ...
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Is the derogatory meaning of the term "conspiracy theory" something that was specifically promoted by the CIA? [closed]
The German Wikipedia article "conspiracy theory" ("Verschwörungstheorie") says, roughly translated by me:
Since about the early 1960s, the US government does not support conspiracy theories any ...
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Does sensitatization require less allergens than elicitation?
In Evidence that Food Proteins in Vaccines Cause the Development of Food
Allergies and Its Implications for Vaccine Policy Vinu Arumugham claims:
It has been demonstrated that a smaller ...
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Can meditation decrease your brain's age by up to 25 years?
I read this When Steve Jobs Died At 56, His Brain Was Only 27
and this: Does a brain age faster when depressed? And would that be a bad thing?
Can meditation "reverse-age" one's brain up to 25 ...
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Do many of the most common foods in Australia have a halal emblem?
There is a widely-circulated essay dismissing the majority of Muslims and focussing on the actions of a fanatical few. It has been attributed to several authors, especially Dr Emanual Tanya, Dr. ...
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Did Ariel Sharon say that the Jewish people control America?
Kevin Barrett claims:
I remember it like it happened yesterday.
It was early October, 2001. I was driving through the Shorewood
neighborhood of Madison, Wisconsin, listening to BBC News on ...
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Is Beckham's Pepsi beach commercial real?
There is this commercial which David Beckham did for Pepsi where he kicks three soccer balls into three different cans at a considerable distance on the beach.
The video went viral and we can see ...
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Did the Syrian government use chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun? [closed]
Since April 4th 2017, reports have been released about a chemical attack that is supposed to have occurred in a Syrian town called Khan Shaykhun.
According to the BBC, "[t]he UK's foreign secretary, ...
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Is 2016 cursed for celebrities? [closed]
Here in the UK, it seems like every single day this year there has been another celebrity death. Before we have chance to mourn them or celebrate their achievements, another one pops off. People are ...
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Is the human genome deteroriating? [duplicate]
http://m.pnas.org/content/107/3/961.full
Thus, although there is considerable uncertainty in the preceding numbers, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the per-generation reduction in ...
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Will a warming world directly damage human health?
It is widely believed that a warming world will be a worse world (but see this question for a discussion of the minority view: Could Global Warming be good for life?)
The medical community seems to ...
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Does low-dose radiation from X-rays or CT scans cause cancer?
Some researchers claim that, despite wide belief, that exposure to Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation (LDIR) from computed tomography (CT) and X-ray medical imaging scans does not cause cancer.
Jeffrey ...
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Is it possible to survive landing in water when free-falling?
This popular YouTube video which is about surviving when jumping from a plane with the parachute failing says at 1:03:
You're looking for 3 things: Swamps, snow, trees. Your best chance of ...
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Has 2017 been the safest year in commercial aviation?
President Trump seems to be implying that him being strict on commercial aviation led to 2017 having been "the best and safest year on record". When reading carefully, he does not claim that ...
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Does injecting Bacillus F improve one's health? [closed]
In a Siberian times report,
a Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov claims that 3.5 million year old bacteria Bacillus F
improves longevity and fertility of fruit flies and mice
stimulated the growth ...
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Is BodyTite effective at tightening the skin during liposuction?
BodyTite or Radio Frequency Assisted Liposuction (RFAL) is a form of liposuction helped by radio frequency:
involves heating the skin by the RF current which flows from the
internal to the ...
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Is it actually beneficial to reduce water consumption? [closed]
Household appliances are getting more and more efficient at conserving water, and advertising claims that this helps conserve the environment.
Some time ago, I've seen a documentary about a German ...
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Did Theodor Herzl adhere to Spinozism?
The following are found among a list of Theodor Herzl quotes on the Web site of the World Zionist Organisation:
When I say God I do not mean to offend the freethinkers. For my part
they can say ...
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Does garlic improve hair growth in androgenetic alopecia?
I have found two papers related to garlic for treating alopecia areata [1,2].
Is there any other evidence for hair growth in androgenetic alopecia?
In fact there are some statements [3,4] that it ...
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Have people survived landing in trees when free-falling?
This popular YouTube video which is about surviving when jumping from a plane with the parachute failing says at 1:03:
You're looking for 3 things: Swamps, snow, trees. Your best chance of ...
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Is Tupac Shakur alive?
Did Tupac Shakur fake his own death?
Numerous conspiracy theories have developed over the years - one being that he is somewhere in Cuba, but I feel that myth could easily be debunked or confirmed ...
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Did a yacht owned by a Polish company with Ukrainian owners travel from Rostock to Christiansø on September 6-7, 2022?
A number of mainstream German newspapers claimed on March 7 that a likely Ukrainian commando travelling on false passports boarded a yacht registered to a Polish company (but ultimately owned by ...
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Did Americans coin the phrase "to make money"?
This claim comes from a work of fiction but it is often repeated as true by fiscally conservative individuals who respect the author. In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, a character named Francisco gives a ...
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Is there legitimate scientific debate about evolution? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Demonstrable and repeatable examples of evolution
Does "The Fossil Record" evidence sufficiently support evolution?
Have we observed evolution through natural selection in ...
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Is immigration causing unemployment among low-skill workers in the UK?
Immigration policy is a hot topic in UK politics, but is it actually costing British jobs?
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Can pesticides from conventionally grown food be detected in urine samples?
Coop Sverige AB have a short video shown based on an unpeer-reviewed pilot study that found that a family who ate conventionally-grown food had urine tests that could detect pesticides.
(The ...
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Does eating high cholesterol foods impact cholesterol blood levels of 30% of population based on Web MD article?
This Web MD article suggests that 30% people are vulnerable to dietary cholesterol.
Indeed, studies suggest that only about 30% of people are particularly susceptible to the effects of dietary ...
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Do crystals have healing powers?
Crystal Healing is a common alternative medicine.
For example:
Crystal Well-Being
Crystals have a long tradition of being used for crystal healing. Each variety of crystal has a unique internal ...
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Does low-calorie/ high-protein diet + fitness regime allow simultaneous muscle growth and fat loss?
Does eating less overall (but high protein), in conjunction with weight lifting (4 days a week), have the effect of inducing fat loss while growing muscle?
On the CBC site it is claimed that a regime ...
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Did Biden ever threaten to impeach any president who went to war without congressional approval?
Just saw this and I was wondering if it was a legit quote. I've seen similar claims about Biden too, here the PolicyMic headline states "Joe Biden Wanted Bush Impeached For the Very Thing Obama is ...
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Have people survived landing in swamps when free-falling?
This popular YouTube video which is about surviving when jumping from a plane with the parachute failing says at 1:03:
You're looking for 3 things: Swamps, snow, trees. Your best chance of ...
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Do 60% of US anti-vaxxers identify as politically liberal? [duplicate]
I found this claim among a survey of anti-vaxxers reported on qz
60% of anti-vaxxers describe their political leaning as liberal:
Much of the other profile characterics reported there aren't ...
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Are schools with armed guards or police safer?
The Huffington Post recently ran a story featuring Wayne LaPierre, the head of the NRA saying that,
"Putting police and armed security guards in our schools to protect our children ... it's the ...
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Can arming teachers prevent gun violence at schools? [duplicate]
According to the BBC:
US President Donald Trump has said arming teachers could prevent
school shootings like that which left 17 people dead last week in
Florida.
A staff member with a gun ...
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Did Stuart Seldowitz work as Deputy Director/Senior Political Officer in the US State Department's Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs?
According to this New York Post article, former White House official Stuart Seldowitz said,
“If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough,” the bigot identified by internet sleuths as ...
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Do scare tactics in advertising succeed in reducing the number of people who smoke or take illegal drugs? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are anti-smoking advertisements actually promoting smoking through use of reverse psychology?
Most people agree that tobacco is harmful to health, but many people still smoke (...
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Have scientists found 700,000-or-more visible annual ice layers?
For people who doubt radiometric dating, layer-counting may provide hard evidence for one or another minimum age of the earth. In its question-and-answer article on how the age of the earth is ...
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Is Argentina buying JF-17 Block-3 aircraft from Pakistan/China?
Is Argentina buying JF-17 aircraft?
Governo argentino reserva US$ 664 milhões para compra de caças JF-17 Thunder em 2022
According to the Aviacionline website, the draft budget for the fiscal year ...
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Does an AR-15 rifle round liquefy tissue and powder bone?
In a 12 Apr 2023 ABC nightly news segment on the 2023 Louisville Shooting (in which an AR-15 style rifle was used), they included a segment of a press conference with Dr Jason Smith, Chief Medical ...
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Can an experiment done on casual cannabis users provide evidence for the risk of psychosis in long term users?
There is an episode of BBC Horizon with the title Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?, presented by Dr Javid Abdelmoneim.
During the documentary Abdelmoneim meets Dr Amir Englund, a ...
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Was the Pepsico company command the 6th biggest military in the world for a brief time? [duplicate]
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According to this video on Soviet Russia, the Russian traded submarines and warships to the Pepsico company for three million dollars worth of Pepsi, One of the claims is that the company ...
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Is a human on a bike more efficient than a fish in water? [closed]
Long ago, an enthusiastic cyclist claimed to me that a human on a bike was more efficient than a fish in water. Is this true?
I would guess that the relevant measure of efficiency would be something ...
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Has the Biden administration already deported more people than Trump's administration (during its entire tenure)?
It's been claimed in a few sources, e.g. Scoop (NZ)
Trumpism With A Biden Face: US Haitian Policy [...]
In a sober assessment of Biden’s report card so far, Natasha Lennard of The Intercept points ...
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Which data are correct for the number of SARS-CoV2 positive tests in France on April 4?
The data published by the John Hopkins University report a sharp spike in new detected cases of SARS-CoV2 infections in France for two days ago (April 4), with 25000 new people tested positive in one ...
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Did molten aluminum pour from the WTC towers before they collapsed?
Video taken after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York show there was a hot yellow stream of fluid material pouring down the side of the WTC2.
According to FAQ about the NIST ...
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Do COVID-19 vaccines cause myocarditis in younger men at a rate higher than the virus?
Dr Keith Moran is a practising physician and consultant in internal medicine with a Youtube Channel discussing medicine.
In May 2023, he posted a video talking about the risks of myocarditis (...
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Did this study on British pupil intelligence include all ethnic groups?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Chinese#Education
The proportion of British Chinese achieving 5 or more good GCSEs stood at 70%, where it remained the highest out of all ethnic groups in the ...
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Did Kim Clement Predict 9/11?
Recently many Christian commentators have told me that a Christian prophet by the name of Kim Clement predicted 9/11 (0:18), the location of Osama bin Laden (0:37), the rival of Ford (1:00), The ...
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