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Did Pfizer Australia give its employees different COVID-19 vaccinations to the general public?
A conspiracy-minded Facebook friend recently linked to the (Australian) Therapeutics Goods Administration's Batch release assessment of COVID-19 vaccines.
It lists seven batches of the COMIRNATY ...
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Did Sweden experience lower all-cause mortality during the pandemic
Sections of the Australian media have been claiming recently that Sweden experienced lower excess deaths during the pandemic years compared with other countries, including Australia. The implication ...
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Is the concept "Palestinian people" an invention of the past century?
This question is about the truth of a statement, nothing else.
It is not about the politics that are attached to it.
Please don't open that can of worms in comments or answers.
Speaking in Paris on ...
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Did John Tesh win 6 Emmys and an AP award for investigative journalism?
The Wikipedia page for John Tesh lists him as having won 6 Emmy's and an "AP award for investigative journalism". This claim is repeated on numerous sites. I cannot find a primary source for ...
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Does prostitution in Thailand make up around 10% of its GDP?
There are several sources that make a claim like that, I'm giving some of them:
We don’t do sex work because we are poor, we do sex work to end our poverty
Key sentence in that link:
We are also the ...
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Is there documented evidence that George Kennan opposed the establishment of NATO?
I have no trouble believing George Kennan opposed NATO's expansion into Eastern Europe; quotes about that are easy to find, e.g. on Wikipedia, using relatively recent thus accessible sources.
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Was Bernie Sanders the first Democratic candidate who "didn't have to go to the Jewish community in New York to get money to run"?
That's the case according to a 2016 statement by Seymour Hersh. Hersh also says that therefore the US may have been able to change its policy towards Israel had Sanders been elected.
This is ...
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Does looking at a monitor screen in a room with very low light source damage your eyes?
Suppose a person wants to play computer games at night without turning on the room lights. The only light source in the room is that monitor screen that the person is looking at -- with normal ...
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Was the "Chinese spy balloon" a project of the University of Fairbanks to study the weather above the North Pole?
When asked about his take on the balloon shot down that the US government say was a Chinese spy balloon, Seymour Hersh says it was more likely a [federally funded] project of the University of ...
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Is the USA the largest trading partner of Vietnam nowadays?
According to Seymour Hersh, the fall of Saigon was irrelevant (wrt. to containing China etc.) because
We're the largest trading partner of Vietnam now.
By "we" he surely means the USA. Is ...
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Did a pro-Ukraine group blow up Nordstream pipeline?
A recent NYT post claims that "Intelligence Suggests Pro-Ukrainian Group Sabotaged Pipelines, U.S. Officials Say". How true is this claim?
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Does rotating a soda can on a table prevent it from fizzing over when opened?
In this scene from Season 6 Episode 7 of Better Call Saul, the character Howard Hamlin shows that one can stop a shaken soda can from exploding when opened by first rotating it vertically while it is ...
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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 over 1000 people in the US die of cannabis overdose in 2021?
According to the National Safety Council, in 2021 in the US, 1159 people died of cannabis overdose, of which 1130 of the deaths were preventable:
Is this true?
I'm skeptical because the drug ...
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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?
A popular article by Steve Kirsch on his substack discusses the following:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases ...
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Did United 93 passenger Jeremy Glick call with a cellular phone on 9/11?
In the "September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor" documentary (1:46:45), a claim is made that Jeremy Glick used a cellular phone to make a roughly 20-minute phone call to his wife and mother-in-...
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Did Robert Brownlee express a belief that a manhole cover was launched into space by a nuclear test?
According to Snopes:
the above-mentioned Brownlee doesn't believe the metal cap launched into space.
However Business Insider states:
Robert Brownlee, an astrophysicist who designed the nuclear ...
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Is the honey bee apocalypse real?
In 2013 Time magazine wrote
A World Without Bees: The Price We’ll Pay If We Don’t Figure Out What’s Killing the Honeybee.
In 2021 New York Post writes
Why the honey bee ‘apocalypse’ is based on a ...
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Has 90% of ice around Antarctica disappeared in less than a decade?
According to CNN, 90% of ice around Antarctica has disappeared in less than a decade.
In the video, CNN Climate Correspondent, Bill Weir states:
... the ice around the continent was growing. In 2014,...
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Were Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers asking for reduced liability invoking the unprecedented testing schedule?
According to RebelNews, Canadian MP Anthony Housefather said
It's because these documents were signed at the beginning of the pandemic when everybody was desperate for vaccines, when companies were ...
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Is the Greek Orthodox church worth 700 billion Euros?
This Wikipedia list puts the Greek Orthodox church's net worth at 700B Euros in 2011 (about 974B USD), above any branch of the Catholic church or other religion. Its source is France 24, but I am not ...
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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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Is there any support for the claim that cannabis can cure cancer repeated in a BBC documentary? [duplicate]
There is an episode of BBC Horizon with the title Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?. The presenter is a doctor. Due to copyright issues I cannot link the documentary directly.
At mins 17:...
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Is the video of a person reducing the tremor cause by Parkinson with cannabis showed in a BBC documentary true or false? [closed]
There is an episode of BBC Horizon with the title Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?, presented by Dr Javid Abdelmoneim.
At mins 16:40 the presenter shows a youtube video of a person ...
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Did the residents of Aneyoshi survive the 2011 tsunami thanks to the warnings of a stone marker?
According to Forbes:
In Aneyoshi, a small village on Japan’s northeastern coast, all the inhabitants survived the tsunami of 2011 by climbing to higher ground, following the warnings of a stone ...
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Was the testing of Covid-19 vaccines "rushed" or "unprecedented"?
Recently, a tweet was made by a Canadian politician, containing a video of a Canadian Member of Parliament, Anthony Housefather, who made some fairly outrageous claims regarding the production of ...
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Was the 2023 Ohio train derailment the 'worst environmental disaster in US history'?
According to Impact Nottingham:
East Palestine, Ohio: Exploring The Worst Environmental Disaster in
the History of the USA
On 3rd February 2023, a freight train carrying various potentially
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Did the US Patent Office issue a patent for a stick?
An episode of Last Week Tonight claims that the US Patent Office once patented a stick:
Okay, but we shouldn't necessarily trust the US Patent Office as an arbiter of good judgement. It's the same ...
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Did Biden say that the Boeing-Air India deal will support 1 million jobs?
This Business Insider India news report is one of many that claim that Biden said that a $34 billion dollar Air India order for 220 Boeing planes will support 1 million US jobs, and that many of those ...
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Was the ELIZA effect real?
ELIZA is an oft referenced early chatbot developed in the 1960's. The legend behind it is that the simplistic chatbot was so convincingly human to early users that they supposedly forgot it was a ...
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Do most people like to talk about themselves?
There are numerous articles about people loving to talk about themselves.
However, my experience has been very different.
Is "everyone's favorite topic is themselves" a myth?
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Is there any historical basis to the four Toltec agreements?
Mexican author Miguel Ruiz published a best-selling self-help book called The Four Agreements, claiming to be based on ancient Toltec wisdom. The four agreements are as follows:
Be Impeccable With ...
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Does an official UK government report show 'Hope Not Hate' as a radical extremist hate group?
On the 12th of February 2023 Douglas Murray, Author and political commentator, wrote the following tweet:
Evidence from official UK government report shows radical far-left group ‘Hope Not Hate’ (@...
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Did Time Magazine publish an article in 1931 explaining how to prepare and roll marijuana?
According to a Feb 3, 2021 blog entry ("Why Is Marijuana Called Reefer?") of Kushfly, a medical cannabis company, Time Magazine published an article in 1931 explaining how to roll a "...
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Did the CIA blow up the Nordstream 1 pipeline, using BALTOPS 22 as cover?
In September 2022, the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines off the coast of Denmark were sabotaged
Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist, recently published a blog post, How ...
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Was the NGO Safeguard Defenders founded in 2016 or in 2019?
The Spanish NGO Safeguard Defenders claims on their website in different languages to have been founded in 2016.
Safeguard Defenders is a human rights NGO founded in late 2016 [...]
The foundation ...
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Does OnlyFans have a no 'extreme fisting' policy in their terms of service?
YouTuber ADoseOfBuckley recently published a video that discussed censorship and the video subscription service, OnlyFans.
At 6m39, he shows what he purports to be an excerpt from the OnlyFans Terms ...
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Did JK Rowling ever describe Harry Potter goblins as "hook-nosed"?
There's a persistent argument online that the goblins from Harry Potter are anti-semitic caricatures, and most critics focus in on the fact that Rowling allegedly presents them with hooked noses:
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Is the stone used for Ram temple construction 65 million years old?
Ram temple is being constructed in Ayodhya city of India. It has been claimed by various Indian news channels (which I don't trust very much) that a stone is used for its construction which is 65 ...
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Does the expression "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" come from a 1944 cereal marketing campaign?
Eric Brown writes in How Marketing Created the Most Important Meal of the Day:
In 1944, a marketing campaign for Grape Nuts would be unleashed called
“Eat a Good Breakfast — Do a Better Job”. During ...
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Did Napoléon Bonaparte ask his wife Josephine not to bathe for several days in a letter before his arrival?
According to British historian Andrew Roberts, Napoléon Bonaparte wrote a letter to his wife Joséphine, in which he wrote "to her, ‘don’t wash for three days’" to spice up their reunion. ...
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Did Bertrand Russell spend 360 pages in Principia Mathematica to prove 1 + 1 = 2?
I read from several places that Bertrand Russell spent many pages in Principia Mathematica to prove 1 + 1 = 2, e.g. here said "it takes over 360 pages to prove definitively that 1 + 1 = 2", ...
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Are George Santos and Gretchen Whitmer the same person?
Some right-leaning (maybe that's not a strong enough term) sources, such as Not the Bee, have claimed or at least implied that Gretchen Whitmer does not really exist, but is actually George Santos in ...
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Did an SR-71 Blackbird airbase have a plaque regarding the valley of the shadow of death?
A common meme around the internet involves a quote from a supposed plaque in front of an SR-71 Blackbird airbase.
The meme seems to be extremely popular on the internet, but I can't seem to find an ...
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Do cows get blown through the air by tornadoes?
Tornadoes are known to throw 18 wheelers and other large objects into the air. However, most deaths (to humans) are due to debris rather than being thrown by the wind itself.
There are several claims ...
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Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy lead to children developing autism?
There are apparently a bunch of law groups recruiting for potential class action lawsuits happening right now targeting medicines that contain acetaminophen, most notable Tylenol. The lawsuits allege ...
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Who would really be paying for the proposed property tax cuts that the state of Texas is considering? [closed]
Quoting State of Texas: Budget plans leave billions of available funds on the table:
In his inauguration speech, Abbott touted Texas’ pro-business stance and unveiled some plans for the state’s ...
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Does global warming trap as much heat as 600,000 Hiroshima-class bombs every day?
In January 2023, in an interview at the World Economic Forum, former US Vice President Al Gore claimed that we're adding the equivalent of 600,000 Hiroshima bombs every day in heat to the atmosphere:
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Are electric stoves less energy-efficient than gas stoves?
According to an article on howstuffworks.com and several other online sources, electric stoves are generally less energy-efficient than gas stoves, since it requires "about three times as much ...
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Has natural gas "reduced carbon emissions from power generation by 38%" in Ohio?
On January 6, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation that legally defined natural gas as a source of "green energy."
In a January 10 opinion piece U.S. representative Troy Baldwin (of Ohio)...
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