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Did the US government claim that it has the right to control "cognitive infrastructure", i.e. thoughts?

A 8 July 2023 tweet contained a snippet of an America This Week vodcast, with author Walter Kirn: Kirn: The thing that stunned me the most was the Government's contention repeated in the ruling that ...
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Have more people been to the deep ocean on submersibles than to space on space craft?

According to this comment by Jon Copley a Marine Biologist as interviewed by Nexus for their show "He was right: Engineer who warned Stockton Rush about OceanGate talks to Nexus", There has ...
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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. “...
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Did COVID-19 come to Italy months before the pandemic was declared? [duplicate]

A November 2020 Reuters article suggests that COVID-19 reached Italy earlier than the official first case, based on a study done by the Italian National Cancer Institute. The new coronavirus was ...
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Was the request to build a website in 303 Creative LLC v Elenis falsified?

I came across an article that claims that 303 Creative v Elenis uses misleading information in its filing: The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its opinion in a case in which Stewart plays a ...
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Does a Michigan law make it a felony to purposefully use the wrong gender pronouns?

Recently Fox News claimed that Michigan House passed a bill that: [...] could make it a felony to intimidate someone by intentionally using the wrong gender pronouns, according to some legal experts. ...
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Did Minecraft sell 600 million copies?

According to this website and this one, Minecraft has sold over 600 million copies. However, in a 2021 Gamespot article it says that only 238 million copies had been sold at that point. Have there ...
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Did UK hospital tell the police that a patient was not raped because the alleged attacker was transgender?

The Daily Telegraph wrote in 2022 (archive.is link): Hospital told police patient was not raped because alleged attacker was transgender ... Lady Nicholson said that the case had arisen as a direct ...
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Was Mr. Beast invited to ride the Titan submarine?

Mr Beast Tweeted on Jun 25, 2023 that "[he] was invited earlier this month to ride the titanic submarine, I said no. Kind of scary that I could have been on it." However, the screenshot, ...
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Were any billionaires onboard the Titan submersible when it imploded?

The Oceangate submersible Titan was lost in June 2023 en route to the wreckage of the Titanic. Debris has been found and the coast guard reported that the vessel catastrophically imploded, killing ...
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Did Andrew Tate claim his job was to seduce women and get them on a webcam?

Andrew Tate is a social media personality who was recently charged with rape and human trafficking offences. There are screenshots available of Andrew Tate's website cobratate.com, on which it says: ...
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Are the photographs of battered Indian soldiers released on Chinese social media authentic?

A while ago two Pakistani newspapers released the news that Chinese social media released the following photos of battered Indian soldiers in the Chinese hands which India never officially admitted. ...
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Have US Congress and US Supreme Court ruled vaccines to be "unavoidably unsafe"?

Connie Newcome, president of Kansans for Health Freedom said in testimony to the Kansas State Legislature: Vaccines are unavoidably unsafe - ruled as such by the US Congress and US Supreme Court. ...
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Do NIAID employees get a share of royalities from drugs that are based on scientific work within NIAID that provides the basis for them?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr claims in his book The Real Anthony Fauci on pages 245-246: Dr. Fauci’s management style thrives on creating many such opportunities for his agency and its employees to ...
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Did HHS admit that mandated childhood vaccines had not been tested for safety in pre-licensing inert placebo tests?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr claims in his book The Real Anthony Fauci on pages 594-595: Most medicinal products cannot get licensed without first undergoing randomized placebo-controlled trials that compare ...
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Does the body manage to eliminate ethylmercury far more efficiently than it eliminates naturally occurring methylmercury?

STATNews wrote in Correcting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine ‘facts’: The human body eliminates ethylmercury from vaccines far more efficiently than it eliminates naturally occurring methylmercury. ...
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Does the "survivorship bias" airplane diagram come from World War II research on returning war planes?

This is a famous diagram. It is used extensively to demonstrate the concept of "Survivorship Bias". Here is a typical example claim associated with this diagram: In World War 2 the allies ...
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Did the grandson of John Rabe receive medicine from China during the start of COVID?

There is a story widely reported by prominent newspapers and government outlets in China that Thomas Rabe, the grandson of John Rabe, asked China for medicine and medical supplies at the start of the ...
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Is the word "field" part of the trigger warnings in US universities?

Note: I am French, we do not really have the concept of "trigger warnings", except during the national TV news where there would be sometimes a warning about a violent scene. In a video ...
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Did a study find that girls who received the DTP vaccine had ten times the death rate compared to unvaccinated girls?

Given Robert F. Kennedy Jr. current run, it's worth looking more specifically at his claims and this website is likely good to investigate a few of them. On of his repeated talking points that he ...
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Did the ACLU prepare a lawsuit against The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem for gender discrimination?

The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem, formerly known as the The Young Women's Leadership Academy, is an all-girls charter school in Manhattan. The school's Wikipedia page contains an ...
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Did a CDC Study confirm a 13,200% increase in Autoimmune Heart Disease After Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines were administered?

This twitter post backed by this article makes the claim that a CDC study found a 13,200% increase in Autoimmune Heart Disease after taking a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine. While the twitter account and site ...
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Does sun-exposure correlate positively with sex drive?

There are many sites posting kinda this: A study by Victoria Milan - a dating site for married and committed people looking to have an affair - looked at the profiles of its millions of active ...
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Does the ratio of ¹⁴C in the atmosphere show that fossil fuels are not the dominant cause of global warming?

I stumbled upon the following paper Skrable et al. (2022) The specific activity of ¹⁴C in the atmosphere gets reduced by a dilution effect when fossil CO₂, which is devoid of ¹⁴C, enters the ...
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Is the diner slang in this scene real?

In an episode of Spongebob Squarepants, a character orders the following: I'll take a Double Triple Bossy Deluxe on a raft, 4x4 animal style, extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle ...
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Did Tsar Nicholas II really call for a "short, victorious war"?

Back in 2018, an article in the Political Studies Association blog quoted Tsar Nicholas II as saying that what his people needed was a "short, victorious war" prior to the Russo-Japanese War ...
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Does staying indoors protect you from wildfire smoke?

I’m in New York right now and I’m seeing a lot of news / government warnings to stay indoors due to the wildfire smoke. For example: Stay indoors, mask up: Staying safe as ‘hazardous' smoke levels ...
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Is Intelligent Design falsifiable?

In an article titled Intelligent Design is Falsifiable, the Discovery Institute claims: There is a belief among media commentators that intelligent design is unscientific because it is unfalsifiable ...
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Is abiogenesis virtually impossible?

Dr Eugene Koonin published a paper in 2007, The cosmological model of eternal inflation and the transition from chance to biological evolution in the history of life in the journal Biology Direct. An ...
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Was the flawless execution of code used as motivation for moonlanding denial?

In this video around 2:25 on programmer stereotypes it is mentioned in the part named female programmers that the code Margaret Hamilton wrote for the Apollo mission was so flawless that some use it ...
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In July 2022, did China have more nuclear weapons than Domino's Pizza locations?

China, Russia, and Pakistan are the only countries in the world that have more nuclear weapons than they do Domino's Pizza locations. 8 Solid Minutes of Useless Geographical Facts!, YouTube (6m45s), ...
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Did an AI-enabled drone attack the human operator in a simulation environment?

According to this news article on the Royal Aeronautical Society website: ...an AI-enabled drone tasked with a SEAD mission to identify and destroy SAM sites, with the final go/no go given by the ...
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Does the "Double Demerit Point" scheme in parts of Australia reduce serious car accidents?

In Australia, drivers earn "demerit points" for committing driving offenses. Being awarded more than a certain number of demerit points in a given period (typically 12 in any 3 year period) ...
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Did Ron DeSantis torture people at Guantanamo Bay?

According to self-described "MAGA communist" Jackson Hinkle, Ron DeSantis "tortured innocent prisoners at Guantanamo Bay when he was in the military". Is this true?
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Are there documented cases of myopia reversing on its own, without medication or surgery?

Most professional medical associations contend that "myopia cannot be reversed". Current evidence supports a number of treatment methods for reducing the progression of myopia. While these ...
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Did Nelson Mandela read The Economist in prison?

An ad for The Economist stated that he read the Economist in prison as a clever way of getting around a rule forbidding him to read the news, until authorities found him out and cancelled the ...
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Does California allow (or plan to allow) post-birth abortion?

Ron DeSantis recently appeared on Fox News where he said: California wants to have abortion all the way up til birth, I think they actually allow it post-birth, if you can believe that, which I think ...
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Is legal induced abortion significantly more safe than childbirth?

When it is said that abortion is significantly safer for women compared to childbirth in mainstream media articles, it is often followed by a reference to a scientific study called The Comparative ...
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Does reported alcohol intake, according to population surveys, only account for half of the alcohol sold?

A recent book by the House of Commons Library statistician Georgina Sturge, criticises an over reliance on data collected by self-reporting surveys in areas where there may be an incentive to minimise ...
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Were South Korean workers forcibly injected with amphetamines?

In a biographical article about the life of Jeon Tae-il, Wikipedia states that As a tailor, Jeon witnessed the horrendous working conditions in the Seoul Peace Market... Such conditions included ...
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Did the Joint Intelligence Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff claim the USSR would convince all Japanese?

An opinion piece posted on 10.05.2016 08:46 by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey on Pravda states that Peter Kuznick claimed: The Japanese leaders did not know that at Yalta Stalin had agreed to come into the ...
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Was there a pattern of women in Middle Ages Europe poisoning their husbands to keep them close?

There's a claim doing the rounds on social media, that women in the Middle Ages would poison their husbands, and then administer an antidote on their arrival home. The implication is that this would &...
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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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Was a study of uterine cancer conducted solely on male subjects?

According to a 1986 article in the Chicago Tribune: Researchers [at Rockefeller University] are studying the effects of obesity on estrogen activity and the tendency for women to develop breast and ...
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Does a 7000 year old ostrich eggshell held at the Nubian Museum depict a drawing of ancient Egyptian pyramids? If so, when was the drawing drawn?

There is a conspiracy theory doing the rounds on the internet that a 7000 year old ostrich eggshell held at the Nubian Museum depicts a drawing of ancient Egyptian pyramids. Curiosmos An ostrich egg, ...
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Did Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird ignore direct orders from Nixon during the EC-121 crisis, as Henry Kissinger alleged?

It's mentioned in a paper on the Vietnam war that (contemporaneously): When [... in 1969] a North Korean jet shot down a U.S. EC-121 surveillance plane, Laird again acted on his own as he ignored a ...
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Was a Russian colonel "required to volunteer for the war in Ukraine" as punishment for asking for a washing machine as a bribe?

Polish TVP reports: Mertvishchov conducted an inspection at a military police station in Moscow. The colonel admitted in a telephone conversation with the station’s management that “the matters ...
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Does building roads increase traffic to the same point?

A 2014 Wired article *What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse cites two economists: In 2009, two economists—Matthew Turner of the University of Toronto and Gilles ...
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Does a coal plant "kill more in a few weeks than nuclear has ever killed"?

Director Oliver Stone and Prof. Joshua Goldstein have created a film named "Nuclear Now", arguing in favor of installing more (modern) nuclear power plants to combat climate change and ...
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Is social media bad for the mental health of youth?

Multiple sources have blamed on social media for having (or potentially having) negative impact on mental state of young people. To name few: NPR writes SEATTLE — The public school district in ...
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