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Use this tag for questions about claims based in the United States, or limited to the United States.
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Is the United States the fattest country in the world?
No, the dubious privilege goes to the small island of Nauru where around 80% of the population are obese (as of 1994).
Obesity in Nauru is a major health concern for the nation. According to Forbes, …
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Are only 700 out of 480,000 life scientists creationists?
700 scientists is quite likely an over-estimation.
The Discovery Institute can only be described as a pro-creation, anti-Evolution think-tank.
Started in 1996, the Center for Science and Culture …
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Is the "Reader voices strong opinion on atheists" letter a hoax?
I've seen on Facebook the following image being shared:
Letters to the Editor
Reader voices strong opinion on atheists
It's time to stomp out atheists in America. The majority of Americans would lov …
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Are only 5% of Americans naturally blonde?
It seems to be a small underestimation. A more precise estimate would be more than 5%, around 6%.
It turns out that people study the prevalence of hair color to understand which genes are related to …
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Only the US, Liberia and Myanmar are “not metric”?
According to a well-sourced wikipedia article, those three countries are the only three that have "some adoption", whereas all the others have "partially complete" adoption (UK, Malaysia, Canada, Jama …
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Are secular/atheist adults less vengeful, nationalistic, militaristic, authoritarian and mor...
The author published a peer-review article with sources:
Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being: How the Findings of Social Science Counter Negative Stereotypes and Assumptions, Phil Zuckerman, Sociology …
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Do the Jewish control a larger proportion of U.S. wealth than their proportion in the popula...
A partial answer in addition to Oddthinking's.
Is only 3% of the population Jewish?
No.
Jews are about 2% of the U.S. population, fewer than many people guess.
A Statistical Portrait of Ameri …
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Did a US Navy ship demand that a lighthouse get out of its path, thinking it was another ship?
I've known for some time the joke about the American military ship insisting that another ship moves out of their way just to discover it was a lighthouse. I've always thought it was simply a joke, bu …
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Does US Intelligence have built-in interfaces in major social networking sites that allow th...
From this interview from Julian Assange:
He believes the social network is joined by Google, Yahoo and other major US organisations that have “built in interfaces for US Intelligence”:
I …
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Did 9/11 lead to many deaths due to car accidents "dwarfing" the attacks themselves?
Well-renowned security expert Bruce Schneier claims that
In the months after 9/11, so many people chose to drive instead of fly that the resulting deaths dwarfed the deaths from the terrorist atta …
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Is Donald Trump forcing the EPA to take down all climate change information?
According to the Independent article Donald Trump orders Environmental Protection Agency to delete all climate change information from its website
The Trump administration is forcing the Environmenta …
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Did the CIA sell drugs in the US?
There is plenty of circumstantial evidence that this is the case.
With respect to the Contra affair, the Kerry inquest reached the conclusion that there was some involvement, directly by CIA or by c …
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Did two people get arrested for "manspreading"?
I've read in multiple places that two men have been arrested in New York for "manspreading", sitting on the subway with legs spreading.
It seems quite unbelievable. First of all, I don't think people …
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Do Imperial units make United States children worse at maths?
It is claimed on Cracked.com:
There's also some evidence that our jalopy measurement system [imperial, ndr] is part of what's making U.S. students bad at math. In Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, he sugg …
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Was Osama Bin Laden Dead Since 2002?
Osama bin Laden has been killed on May 2nd, 2011. This fact is undisputed by any relevant party:
Osama bin Laden, then head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on Monda …
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