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Is this footage of pro-Palestinian protesters in Algeria recent?
The Persian-language newspaper, Ettelat published a story a few days ago claiming the Algerian parliament has ratified a bill to allow the president to use military action against Israel. This appears ...
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Does chromosome 6 deletion cause the patient to not feel pain, hunger, and fatigue?
In this 7-years-old Belfast Telegraph article there's a video posted to Russia Today about a girl called Olivia Farnsworth who has the genetic abnormality "chromosome 6 deletion" which ...
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Is the leaked Aiden Hale "manifesto" authentic?
The 2023 Nashville school shooting was carried out by a transgender man, Aiden Hale.
Conservative political commentator Steven Crowder tweeted some photos of handwritten notes in a notebook, ...
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"Most kids don't even know that Hamas is a terrorist organization"?
On ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’, in the context of discussing a (Quinnipiac) poll about the degree of support "of the way Israel is responding to the Hamas terrorist attack" in the 18-34 age ...
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Does TikTok "shadow ban" pro-Israeli content?
According to one influencer interviewed on Fox News, TikTok makes it difficult to post pro-Israeli content. She alleges that such posts don't get publicly displayed but that she has to manually send ...
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Is prolonged/frequent use of mobile phones responsible for sperm reduction in younger men?
This question has been asked previously but there has been a new study on the question which has received publicity and considerable acceptance. I am skeptical of the findings of the new study.
Men ...
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Does this video show Israeli police brutalizing anti-Zionist Jews? [closed]
[Caution: Attached video portrays moderate violence by police.]
According to this tweet by the Quds News Network
Israeli police on Wednesday raided the anti-Zionist Jewish neighborhood in occupied #...
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Can human body heat cause a mobile phone's battery to "run down at a faster rate"?
The average 98.6 degree Fahrenheit body heat of a human being when transmitted through a cloth pocket to a cell phone inside is enough to speed up chemical processes inside the phone's battery. As a ...
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Did Ilya Ponomarev confess that he is behind the antisemitic mobs in Dagestan?
On October 29, 2023, an antisemitic mob stormed Uytash Airport near Makhachkala, Dagestan in Russia.
PolitNavigator claims (in Russian):
Fugitive extremist and former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev ...
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Is LaMDA, Google's AI, sentient?
In 2022, a Scientific American article quoted Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, who argued that LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) might be sentient, while other technical experts ...
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Is it possible to use microbes to grow protein from air and electricity?
Solar Foods claim they can use microbes to ferment an edible protein powder.
Their process is described as follow:
The process takes a single microbe, one of the billion different ones
found in ...
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Are people of African descent subject to more harassment in Finland than other EU countries?
Helsinki times (Largest newspaper in the country) writes:
PEOPLE of African descent consider Finland as one of the most racist countries in the European Union, suggests a 13-member state study by the ...
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Were multiple Israeli children found decapitated by Hamas on the same location and responders were trying to figure out which head belonged to whom?
According to Eli Beer [interviewed on TBN], after the Hamas attack on Oct 7, Israeli first responders ran into a scene where multiple children had been decapitated on same location and "we were ...
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Did Hamas bake a baby to death in an oven?
A new report has emerged of Hamas baking a baby in an oven. [NSFL images at link] (Video of the Eli Beer speech referenced in the Tweet embedded in that previous article.) This has also, of course, ...
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Does Hamas divert humanitarian aid donations towards the military budget?
In order to better understand how Hamas operates, I was trying to look up how they manage their budget. It seems there's suspicion that some of the international humanitarian aid goes towards the ...
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Can Russia jam GPS as far as Sofia, Bulgaria (with ships)?
It's been claimed by various observers that Russia is behind GPS glitches in Romania and Bulgaria.
The next day, September 1, it was happening again. Pilots approaching Sofia complained of the same ...
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Are the leaked Xinjiang files (from the old NYT article), and Xinjiang Police Files proven to be legitimate?
4 years ago, the NYT published this article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html, discussing the then-recently leaked
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Did B. R. Ambedkar say it is shameful for women to enter politics?
B. R. Ambedkar was an Indian politician in the 1940s-50s who helped write the Indian constitution.
The Indian government hosts a web-page of his writings and speeches. Vol. 40, Page No. 467 is in ...
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Did “thousands of Gazan citizens” join the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel?
One of the survivors of the Hamas music festival attack on the 7th of October 2023 has claimed the following:
When I say “terrorist”, I am including not only Hamas but also the thousands of Gazan ...
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Are global wildfires decreasing?
According to the World Health Organization,
Climate change is directly contributing to humanitarian emergencies from heatwaves, wildfires, floods, tropical storms and hurricanes and they are ...
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Are the death toll numbers from Gaza's Health Ministry reliable?
MEE reports:
Biden told reporters at the White House that he has "no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth" about the number of people killed by Israel so far. "I'm sure ...
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Has any scholar proposed an etymology of "pissed" (in the sense of "drunk") related to drinking psychoactive urine?
The earliest example I've seen so far of this widely-recycled claim (see what I did there?) is a 2003 article by Dana Larsen in the magazine Cannabis Culture:
It was common practice among ancient ...
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Did Stalin say in 1940 that "the action of the Red Army is also a matter of world revolution"?
The quote appears in a 2001 paper in English... and only there in that exact formulation.
[Stalin's] policies during and after World War II amounted to “National Bolshevism”—the use of the Soviet ...
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Has Azerbaijan "not had any environmental activist initiatives for the past decade"?
A long article about the Azerbaijani blockade of the (now former) Lachin corridor claims that:
Azerbaijan is an authoritarian country that has not had any environmental activist initiatives for the ...
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Does an Al Jazeera video suggest that a rocket caused the Ahli hospital explosion?
Video shows rocket fired from Gaza make sharp turn back before blast seen at hospital (CNN):
Video from Al Jazeera appears to show a rocket fired from Gaza make a sudden turn moments before a deadly ...
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Did almost 300k children get married in 2000–2018 in the USA?
The article Child Marriage in the United States: Prevalence and Implications from the Journal of Adolescent Health makes the following shocking claim right at the top:
We found that some 297,033 ...
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Could 7 billion people fill Los Angeles if they stood shoulder to shoulder?
A 2010 National Geographic video talks about 7 billion people (the Earth's population at the time). At timestamp 1:57, the video claims that
standing shoulder to shoulder all 7 billion of us would ...
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In what way do developed countries drain trillions of dollars from developing countries? [closed]
On the advice of the monitors, I have reposted this question on Economics SE.
According to the Guardian, rich Western countries drain large amounts of money from poor countries, much more than they ...
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Did the Arabic IDF page on Facebook say "it was decided to bomb the Baptist Hospital in Gaza and give them euthanasia death"?
From Lowkey,
The translation reads,
Due to the lack of medical equipment and the lack of a medical staff, it was decided to bomb the Baptist Hospital in Gaza and give them euthanasia death
Was this ...
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Did Hamas release a video of a doll "accidentally" masquerading as a dead child in Gaza?
The Twitter account of Israel (MFA) has [archive link, the original tweet was deleted] this slightly odd claim:
Hamas accidentally posted a video of a doll (yes a doll) suggesting that it was a part ...
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Were some of the hostages taken by Hamas killed in cross-fire by Israeli forces?
In this widely watched interview with Middle East Eye, Yasmin Porat describes being kidnapped from a kibbutz by Hamas (translation provided by Middle East Eye):
Yasmin Porat: We shouted at that point ...
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Did Israel replace a puppy with burned babies in a photo?
This is a more direct claim than what's been asked in another Q about "murdered babies".
A (Singaporean, I think) website called "Defense Politics Asia" claims (also on their ...
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Did Hamas kill Israeli babies during the October 7 2023 attacks on Israel?
In another question, the topic of whether babies were beheaded in the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel is addressed.
Putting aside the specific claims of beheadings, allegedly some accounts are ...
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Were Jews ever subjected to any oppression or targeting in the region of Egypt?
According to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (alternative link):
I am an Egyptian person who grew up next to Jews in Egypt. They have never been subjected to any form of oppression or ...
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Did a soldier who confirmed babies decapitated by Hamas previously call for "wiping out entire Palestinian villages"?
According to Anandolu Agensi [Oct, 12]:
To this day, only one soldier has said he saw babies were beheaded. David Ben Zion of Unit 71, an extremist settler who earlier this year called for “wiping ...
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What is the origin of this photo of a young girl with the caption "The world you were raised to survive in no longer exists"? [closed]
Link to the photo (from an unrelated, random blog)
This was obviously taken some time before 9/11 given the Twin Towers in the background. I have seen this picture many times over the last two ...
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Did Clinton express regret over not rigging Palestinian elections in 2006?
This is a question about the authenticity of a recording and of its associated reporting.
This source (New York Observer in 2016) reported Hillary Clinton as saying on September 5, 2006, to Eli ...
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Did Russian instructors help Hamas in the 2023 attacks against Israel?
Gulag.net, a Russian anti-establishment website, posted a video "Прикрывайте!Прикрывайте!" Среди нападавших на Израиль были русскоговорящие инструкторы. ЧВК Вагнер?, which translates to '&...
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Has the usage of body mass index caused historical harm and been utilized for racial exclusion?
ama-assn.org (American Medical Association) writes regarding BMI (body mass index)
The House of Delegates adopted new policy recognizing the issues with using BMI as a measurement because:
Of the ...
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Were babies found with their heads decapitated in Israel after the Hamas attack?
According to this tweet by CNN,
The Israel Prime Minister spokesman just confirmed babies and toddlers were found with their "heads decapitated" in Kfar Aza in southern Israel after Hamas ...
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Is is true that 41% of all code on GitHub is AI-generated?
I read on decrypt.co:
Data from GitHub reveals that "41% of all code right now is AI generated" Mostaque remarked.
Is is true that 41% of all code on GitHub is AI-generated? They don't ...
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Do soccer players suffer a “3%–5% drop in performance” after their first tattoo?
In a 2017 article in The Sun, “Top footballers are wrecking their performances by having tattoos, claim experts” it is claimed:
Dr Ingo Frobose, of Cologne’s German Sports University, urged clubs to ...
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Is there a 29.5 day cycle of neutrotransmitters released from the claustrum in our brains?
According to multiple 'spiritual' websites (like this one), there is a 29.5 cycle in the human body.
Every 29.5 Days, A Seed Is Born That Gifts You With An Opportunity For A Physiological & ...
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Is this the Oath to become a Master Mason?
In Freemasonry, the third degree that one may obtain is called Master Mason. I found a book claiming to contain the rituals and oath that the Mason has to perform. The book is called "Duncan's ...
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Do mineral glass lenses on sunglasses block 100% of harmful UV radiations?
I have also come across sunglasses fitted with "mineral glass lenses" which claim to filter 100% of UVA and UVB without the need for a UV coating, e.g.:
Otis:
OTIS standard lenses are all ...
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Did Netanyahu say "We will turn Gaza into a deserted island" in early October 2023?
According to a October 7, 2023 Al-Jazeera article, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said:
“We will take mighty vengeance for this black day,” the Israeli leader said in a televised address. “...
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Did Putin tell George W. Bush that Putin's dog was "bigger, stronger and faster" than Bush's dog?
In a September 2023 interview of George W. Bush, he relates a story about Vladimir Putin's "chip on his shoulder":
I discovered it when I introduced him to
my little dog, Barney, who's a ...
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Did John Steinbeck say "It means very little to know that a million Chinese are starving unless you know one Chinese who is starving"?
I often see the quote attributed to John Steinbeck, "It means very little to know that a million Chinese are starving ...", when explaining the difference between sympathy and empathy, e.g. ...
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Did Bill Gates, via the Gates Foundation, use his influence to prevent Oxford from making the patent for their COVID-19 vaccine open source?
In a Jan. 2023 AMA "Ask Me Anything" post on Reddit by Bill Gates, a user, Sherm199, stated that:
The Gates foundation fought for the Oxford vaccine to NOT be open-source and to instead be ...
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Are you disallowed to bring bottles of water on planes for security reasons? [closed]
Restrictions on bringing liquids on planes were introduced in 2006 citing security concerns about liquid explosives. See e.g. 1.
I am skeptical security reasons are the true motivation. Shortly after ...
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