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Is over 96% of Moderna's revenue from their COVID-19 Vaccine?
In a recent YouTube video from "The Lotus Eaters", one of the anchors states that "During the previous quarter, Moderna's earnings on their shares were 4.97 billion overall, and the ...
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Does too much artificial lighting result in increased crime and safety problems?
According to a Washington Post article, Nebraska's tourism board is applying for dark sky certification for the Merritt Reservoir State Recreation Area. As part of their application, they are
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Does drinking alkaline water help you recover from a hangover?
Related to another question of mine on "electrolyzed reduced water". There are a number of companies that sell commercial products claiming to produce such water. I'm guessing it's not by ...
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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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Do school spelling tests increase reading or writing performance of students?
Elementary schools across the US often give weekly spelling lists that the students will be tested on at the end of the week.
Clearly schools believe having kids learn to spell these words helps them ...
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Does the COVID vaccine contain Graphene Hydroxide nano razor blades?
Psiram has a page about conspiracy theories around covid vaccines and them supposedly containing graphene oxide and graphene hydroxide. They link to credible sources debunking the claim that vaccines ...
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Does the mass of human made objects exceed the entire biomass on the planet?
An article in Nature, "Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass" in 2020 has recently gained some attention on social media (see this Twitter thread) possibly because of a striking ...
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Have one in four American women had an abortion?
From Reuters today, in the article Supreme Court conservatives appear willing to gut abortion rights:
About one in four American women has had an abortion, [attorney Julie] Rikelman added.
According ...
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Do pregnant women crave pickles?
In my friend group it is "common knowledge" that pregnant women eat pickles a lot and we sometimes joke that we saw someone's girlfriend eating pickles with the implied consequence that they ...
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Is the cervix pierced during the insertion of an IUD?
From this reddit post:
This is the first step to the insertion of an IUD. They are piercing
the cervix with no anesthesia or local numbing and it's most common
for clients to be unaware of this step.
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How long do COVID-19 vaccines last?
I have read many claims from (German) politicians COVID-19 vaccines only work for 6 to 9 month. It is being used to argue that vaccinations should be mandatory in Germany and Austria every 6 or 9 ...
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Does China's official position reject the "wet market origin theory" of COVID?
In an episode of Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar says,
Even the Chinese don't try and push [...] the wet market theory. Their theory is basically like oh it was on some goods and it made it ...
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Have there recently been any immigrants illegally crossing the Mexico-Texas border from South Africa?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted on Twitter:
Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.
Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from ...
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Does the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (or any known vaccine) increase infection rates?
The preprint Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination Against Risk of Symptomatic Infection, Hospitalization, and Death Up to 9 Months: A Swedish Total-Population Cohort Study by Nordström, Ballin and ...
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Is "Mu" a more common last name than "Xi" in China?
Is "Mu", which has a coronavirus variant named after it by the World Health Organization, a more common last name than "Xi", which the WHO has avoided naming a variant after?
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Did the WHO deliberately skip the letters Xi and Nu when naming the latest COVID-19 variant Omicron?
A tweet claims WHO skipped a letter of the Greek alphabet when designating new COVID-19 variants to avoid using "xi".
News of new Nu variant, but WHO is jumping the alphabet to call it ...
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Did the judge in the Rittenhouse case have a Trump rally ringtone on his phone?
According to MSN:
The phone belonging to the judge presiding over the closely watched double homicide trial of Kyle Rittenhouse rang at least twice during the trial with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless ...
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Is it possible to get a reliable match from 'microscopic hair analysis'?
In her 1999 memoir, 'Lucky', Alice Sebold describes being raped and the arrest and conviction of the male perpetrator, which took place in 1981-1982.
Several months after she was raped, a man passed ...
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Did COVID-19 kill ~5 times more people per capita in Jun-Aug 2021 in US counties that >70% voted for Trump than in those which voted <26-32% Trump?
It's been claimed in the media that
Back in September, health care analyst Charles Gaba also told the New York Times that counties where Trump received at least 70% of the vote in the 2020 ...
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Did CNN use "lightened" photos of Darrell Brooks?
I recently found an image of a tweet shared on Reddit showing CNN using a photo of Darell Brooks (the man who recently drove an SUV into a parade crowd) that makes him look more white. Presumably, ...
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Are unvaccinated people 10 times more likely to get COVID-19 than vaccinated people?
In the article "Nobody should be forced to do anything, but freedom to choose cuts both ways" which was posted on the "New Daily" Jaqui Lambi an Australian federal politician makes ...
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Can defrosting vacuum-packed fish in its packaging cause botulism?
There are many warnings on the Internet about vacuum-sealed frozen fish thawed in its packaging potentially causing botulism:
Why You Should Never Thaw Frozen Fish in Its Vacuum-Sealed Packaging
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Does Reversing Ceiling Fan Direction Improve Energy Efficiency?
There is an often cited statistic in the HVAC field that reversing the ceiling fan direction can save 10% on heating bills due to air circulation.
I would imagine that this is somewhat true due to the ...
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Is there a correlation between vaccination levels and new COVID-19 cases?
In the study Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States, it is claimed that there is no relation between vaccination and ...
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Was this 'carbon fibre' bicycle rim destroyed by a parrot?
This photograph was circulating on social media on 20th November 2021
(Click image to enlarge)
It was widely described as a carbon wheel that had been destroyed by a parrot. e.g.
Cycling Tips (...
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In 1984, was the top income tax rate lowered from 70% to 28%,and was Social Security then taxed for the first time?
I saw this image on social media. There a few claims here that I'm curious about the accuracy of. Of course, the President can't unilaterally alter tax laws, but regardless, did these things happen?
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Is Trump's book, Our Journey Together, personally signed?
The website 45books.com lists "hand-signed", "autographed" books by former US president Trump for sale:
OUR JOURNEY TOGETHER (SIGNED COPY) $229.99
Get your hand-signed edition of ...
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Has ITER stated that their nuclear fusion device will consume more energy than it produces?
ITER is an experimental fusion reactor in development. According to Wikipedia, it's supposed to produce 10 times its input energy.
But according to New Energy Times, it seems to now be formally ...
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Is this quote from Lenin: "Make them swallow the word, they will swallow the thing"?
Éric Zemmour, the far-right probable candidate for the 2022 French presidential election said (in his book La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot but also in many meetings, example) that Lenin has ...
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Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy - is it any better than just infrared light?
Multiwave Locked System (MLS) laser therapy is marketed [1] as a healing and pain-relieving treatment based on simultaneous application of 808nm continuous light, and 905nm pulsed light from laser ...
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Are covid vaccines causing additional cardiac events amongst athletes?
In the video "Dozens of pro athletes suddenly experiencing cardiac arrest" on "Truth in Media" the reporter Vince Swan implies that Covid vaccines are causing cardiac events in ...
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Do Lufthansa's Compensaid schemes make flights carbon-neutral?
My employer recently announced that all outbound flights will be carbon neutral due to a recent program of our preferred airline.
Lufthansa's Compensaid claims that
With our reliable partner ...
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Is there another period of history in rest of world as detailed as Islamic history? [closed]
There so many hadiths (quotes) and riwayahs (anecdotes) about the life of Muhammad the prophet or messenger who brought Islam.
I have heard more than 200,000 hadiths exist, sahih(authentic) and not ...
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Nanoscale hydrogen batteries that use water-splitting technology [closed]
It was claimed in this article in 2019 that a nano-battery using water splitting technology is developed. It is described as:
The battery gains its charge by interacting with water molecules present ...
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Do these satellite photos show mockups of US military vessels?
Many news outlets are claiming that China has built mockups of US carriers and destroyers in the dessert of Taklamakan (example 1, example 2, example 3).
I have some doubts on this, partly because the ...
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Is Kamala Harris' approval rating the lowest of any vice president?
Is Kamala Harris' approval rating "the lowest of any vice president"? I was watching this Fox News video and I am not sure if it's accurate or not.
Sources:
28% approval rating as of Nov 8, ...
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Was Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire, the largest private house in the UK?
Wentworth Woodhouse is a large country house in South Yorkshire, England.
In 2016, Mansions Global describe it as:
the largest private house in the UK
In 2014, Yorkshire Life described it as
the ...
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Do spying devices implanted through human ear canals exist?
An article from a professor of psychology describes a type of so-called “ radio-wave, auditory, assaultive. transmitting (RAAT) implants,” which is essentially a covert listening device, and it can be ...
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Was molten steel found at the World Trade Center?
I can't find any instances of this question on this website, so here goes.
Conspiracy theorists often claim that molten steel was found at Ground Zero during and after 9/11. A typical example is this ...
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Does natural immunity offer better protection than mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 of the same variant?
The CDC states that individuals who have previously recovered from COVID-19 infections should still receive vaccinations, as it has been shown that vaccination offers a significant boost to the ...
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Do any ATS companies advertise entirely automated resume rejection?
It's not an unheard of notion that employers, particularly large tech companies, might use automated systems to reject candidates, without any human involvement.
This article claims the following:
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Is poverty the strongest cause of crime? [closed]
TLDR: Is crime the most important cause of crime?
A common claim, as far as I have seen never sourced in any meaningful way, is that poverty constitutes the strongest or in other ways most relevant ...
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It is feasible to produce energy at 2ct/KWh using alpha-, beta- and gammavoltaics?
At Tuesdays COP26 session called Economics of Climate Change a company called Infinite Power proposed a carbon neutral way to provide baseload for electricity grid. Their technology claims work by a &...
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Could Elon Musk sell $US6 billion in stock “right now”?
Recently (26 October 2021), CNN published an article with the eye-catching headline:
2% of Elon Musk's wealth could solve world hunger, says director of UN food scarcity organization
This was ...
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Are remote self-powered implanted devices with transmitters practical?
There is an article about a research in nanogenerators and transmitters used to make a self-powering implant which can transmit wireless signals to receivers over a distance. It is claimed that
A new ...
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Can regularly ingesting a poison build an immunity to it? [duplicate]
There is an ancient story of Mithridates of Pontus cultivating an immunity to poisons by regularly ingesting sub-lethal doses. (e.g. here, or here).
This strikes me as being extremely unlikely for ...
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Did Pakistan supply any military aid to Azerbaijan during the second Karabakh war?
Pakistani troops fighting in Azerbaijan against Armenia, says report
Pakistani troops fighting in Azerbaijan against Armenia, says report
According to the above links, Pakistan sent soldiers to fight ...
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Are these 25,000 year old pyramids in Indonesia and/or the Kola Peninsula?
This image seems to be doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment, purporting to be an ancient pyramid either in Indonesia or the Kola peninsula in Russia. Is there any evidence that it is an ...
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Does aviation benefit from Daylight Savings Time?
In Europe, we have Daylight Saving Time, but a few years ago, the European Commission decided that must stop and instructed their members to choose a permanent time zone. For various reasons that hasn'...
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Are US Marines deliberately kept under-supplied so that they would be more combat aggressive?
I watched a TV series named Generation Kill based on the experiences of an embedded reporter during the invasion of Iraq in the 2003.
The US Marines in the series often complain about lacking ...
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