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Does esbiothrin kill mosquitos?
I recently made use of an esbiothrin insecticide spray I bought in Europe.
I've been using this product for a while now, with good results, I found it to be completely useless when used in Morocco.
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Are the youngest siblings the most likely to become millionaires?
This facebook meme states:
The youngest sibling of the family is the most likely to become a millionaire"
Is this true?
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Does releasing hydroxyl (OH) into the air purify it safely?
Companies like Air Oasis have products that promise to purify the air by:
The Air Oasis brands of Air Purifiers that we carry use a unique nano Nickle catalytic hydration process to create powerful ...
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Should 20-35% of calories come from fats in a healthful diet?
In 2002, the National Academies' Institute of Medicine released a report that recommended:
Adults should get 45 percent to 65 percent of their calories from carbohydrates, 20 percent to 35 percent ...
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Does taking paracetamol when pregnant cause autism?
A 2016 scientific report suggests that taking the painkiller paracetamol (also called acetaminophen in some countries) may cause autism or hyperactivity in children if taken while pregnant. This ...
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Is there evidence from controlled trials that tracheostomy works?
Jeremy H. Howick writes in the book "The Philosophy of Evidence-based Medicine":
Perhaps the most striking [paradox of EBM] is that many of the treatments in whose effectiveness we have the most ...
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Did Sky TG24 broadcast video misattributed to be the 2016 Brussels attack?
According to AnaHera.news (in Italian), Sky TG24 broadcast videos purportedly of the airport and metro attacks in Brussels, but were actually footage of the 24 January 2011 attack in Moscow.
The ...
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Did Steve Jobs compare Apple's market share with BMW, Mercedes-Benz's and Porsche?
From The Register: Apple CEO Cook: 'We're not in the junk business'
Steve Jobs reprised nearly that exact argument in a 2004 interview.
"Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or ...
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Does the 7speedreading software allow people to read over three times as fast?
7speedreading provides speed-reading software that claims:
You Will Read 3.471 Times Faster, With Full Comprehension.
Or We'll Not Only Refund Your Investment… We'll PAY You $50.
All you need ...
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Does the tradition of Sabbath originate from the Babylonian rest day Sapattu?
It is often claimed that the tradition of Sabbath has its origin in ancient Babylon.
The Babylonian restdays are named 'Sapattu' and there are several other similarities (including the linkage to the ...
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Are American courts and federal agencies foreign-controlled private corporations?
A colleague recently shared An Open Letter to Sheriff Ward of Harney County Oregon - and to All County Sheriffs in America from Judge Anna
This letter makes a number of claims, among which:
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Does Manchester United have 659 million fans worldwide?
According to the Manchester United football club, they had 659 million followers worldwide in 2012.
Manchester United has 659 million followers worldwide:
71 million in Americas
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Did Rousseau say that equality of conditions is not possible without slavery?
I just read What is Property, written in 1840 by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
At the end of the book he attributes a paraphrased quote to Jean-Jaques Rousseau:
The communistic republic of Plato ...
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Does Brain Toniq soft drink improve cognition?
Brain Toniq is a non-caffeinated soft drink that contains:
Rhodiola root, Choline, DMAE, and organic wild-harvested Blue Green Algae extract
While their web-site and their Facebook page make no ...
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Can nearsightedness be cured with yoga?
Baba Ramdev claims in this 1hr Hindi video that yoga can cure myopia.
Is there evidence that one can be cured of myopia by yoga?
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Is activist Shaun King's biological father African-American?
This one is kind of messy. There is a pretty popular activist named Shaun King who is prominent in the Black Lives Matter movement, among other things. He has claimed and continues to claim that he ...
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Did Neanderthals keep Cro-Magnons as sex-slaves?
Some time ago, it was thought that modern people came from Cro-Magnons, and Neanderthals became extinct. But after the Neanderthal genome project, we found that modern people have from 1% to 4% of ...
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Can abdominal muscles take over 75% of the workload of a diaphragm and restore 100% lung function?
This News Report says that the boy mentioned had 75% of his diaphragm removed due to cancer, however as a result of strong abdominal muscles now has 100% lung function.
Is this really feasible, or is ...
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Was swastika a popular symbol among Slavs and/or Proto-Indo-Europeans?
It seems to me that many Russian nationalists and neo-paganists currently believe that swastika was a Solar symbol or a symbol of fortune in ancient Slavic folklore.
There are multiple paintings by ...
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Does having more stool test help to improve chances in catching polyps bleeding?
This article Fecal Occult Blood mention
You will need to test your feces from three separate bowel movements. These bowel movements should be three in a row, closely spaced in time to minimize the ...
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Do humans, pets and livestock drastically outweigh all other land mammals?
Does this picture demonstrate the actual proportions well (from xkcd)?
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Does a carpet made from wool have better acoustic properties than a synthetic carpet?
This PDF document is claiming the following:
Wool carpets may have some
advantages over nylon carpets in this respect, particularly for
low frequency noise, as is demonstrated in Figure 1.
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Is this Strelkov?
The ibtimes site claims that the guy in this image is Igor Girkin, also know as 'Strelkov":
Igor 'Strelkov ' Girkin (C) pictured in Visegrad in 1992 along with a
Russian mercenary and a Bosnian ...
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Does a carbon fiber seat help karting performance and protect ribs?
I found a karting seat that is made from carbon-fiber here:
http://www.ribtect.com/RibtectSeat_Original.html
On that page, it claims:
To Improve Performance:
The Ribtect seat helps the chassis ...
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Can a plastic tent keep contaminants out and emulate a safe clean room?
I was reading an article on why opening the cover of a hard drive was a bad idea.
In the article, the author mentions that the safest way to open the cover of a hard drive was to do it in a class 100 ...
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Does government spending on healthcare promote economic growth?
As governments attempt to get their finances back into balance, many have cut back on a wide range of spending commitments. Some governments such as the UK have chosen to protect spending on ...
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Are Vertical key layouts more ergonomic?
One of the feature that kinesis advertises for their Kinesis Advantage Pro Contoured Keyboard is:
Vertical key layout - keys are arranged in vertical columns to reflect natural motions of your ...
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Are there scientific studies of remote-viewing with negative results?
The Wikipedia page on Remote Viewing says:
A variety of scientific studies of remote viewing have been conducted. Some earlier, less sophisticated experiments produced positive results but they had ...
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Does eel help relieve symptoms of summer fatigue?
In Japan, a traditional summer illness is natsubate, summer fatigue, and the traditional way of relieving symptoms is to eat eel for "stamina". Is there any science behind this tradition?
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Was Edgar Cayce visited by Rockefeller and other important figures from that era?
Edgar Cayce was an American psychic who was famous during the early 20th century. He was notorious for giving readings during an alleged trance state he entered while sleeping. There’s a foundation ...
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Have all sustainable cultures been illiterate (or not made a fetish of reading)?
I have been reading "What Is Education For" by David Orr and the author makes the following statement:
It is a matter of no small consequence that the only people who have lived sustainably on the ...
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Did China steal technology from the USA to make their J-20?
The Chengdu J-20 is a Chinese fighter aircraft.
Wikipedia reports that
The combination of an integrated targeting pod with spherically situated passive-optical tracking system is reported similar ...
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Are there members of Congress who have tried to seize 401k plans?
In February, the White House released its “Annual Report on the Middle
Class” containing new regulations favored by Big Labor including a
bailout of critically underfunded union pension plans ...
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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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Is the UAE sponsoring the RSF coup in Sudan?
According to a MEMO article titled "UAE behind RSF's attempted coup in Sudan, leaked recording says":
In the alleged audio recording, which could not be verified, a man media outlets ...
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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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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 the claim that a serial killer is targeting the LGBTQIA+ community in Manchester credible?
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There have been claims that a serial killer has been active in Manchester dating back to the late 2000s. They center on the idea that there have been an unusually high number of drownings ...
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Has the USA been stealing oil from Syria?
It has been widely claimed that the US has been stealing oil from Syria.
For example:
China's Global Times, August 2022:
On August 8, the Syrian Oil Ministry said that the US and its mercenaries ...
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Did USSR train East Pakistani separatists?
Here is a video from the defected KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov:
Behind Dhaka's fall - Yuri Bezmenov (Ex-KGB Agent)
The following is the part of the interview I am intersted in:
... Most of the Awami ...
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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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Are cobras allergic to milk?
In India, there are snake charmers who use cobras in rituals:
The main ritual event of Nag Panchami is to offer milk and crystallized sugar to a cobra. As Premlata Vatsyayan writes, “On Nag Panchami ...
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Has the majority of Northern Ireland's business organisations rejected Boris Johnson's latest Brexit plan?
The Belfast Telegraph reporting on Boris Johnson's "final offer" to the EU, states that:
Mr Johnson's current plans would see Northern Ireland apply EU rules on goods, but stay in a customs ...
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Is the Skyfall villian's explanation on how to remove rats from an island accurate?
Is this video on how to remove rats from an island real? I don't know how much of this is a bit of Hollywood inspired hyperbole or whether it is in actual fact real?
The part of changing there nature ...
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Can using black glue coating on an umbrella block 99.99% of UV-A and UV-B radiations?
I read on https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XP321LY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (mirror):
Black glue umbrella is the newer version sun umbrella instead of silver glue ...
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Can rebaudioside M (Reb M) be made through fermenting natural sugarcane?
According to Forbes, the new Amryis's Purecane product is produced is by fermenting sugarcane,
But the Amyris scientists developed a unique method of making Reb-M using fermentation, the basic ...
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Was an Armenian S-300 battery radar destroyed by a drone attack?
I have read articles about war events in Armenia-Azerbaijan, mentioning Azeri drone or loitering munition attacks on Armenian anti-aircraft missile batteries. Specially, there is one Armenian S-300 ...
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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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