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Is the decline in polio symptoms directly caused by the banning of pesticides such as DDT?
I'll address your last question first, starting with the mantra of science and statistics:
Correlation doesn't equal causation
There is a common anecdote in my home country about the mayor of a ...
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Do American foods contain unsafe levels of glyphosate?
According to the document Joint FAO/WHO evaluation (2004 Part II—Toxicology) with information on the acceptable daily intake of glyphosate (ADI):
(listed here)
The acceptable daily intake for ...
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Do American foods contain unsafe levels of glyphosate?
An analysis by Snopes on this claim found it to contain a mixture of both truth and undetermined information.
What is true about this claim referring to Snopes is that studies performed on lab ...
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Is the decline in polio symptoms directly caused by the banning of pesticides such as DDT?
Just doing basic data analysis of the charts shows little relevance between DDT and polio.
Polio went up before DDT in most cases, as well as going down before DDT use was reduced, not to mention that ...
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Is whitewashing trees a good practice?
TL;DR: I did not find any scientific consensus on this subject.
The claim:
According to this 2014 Statesmen article,
Horticulturists from the University of California and Sunset magazine still ...
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Do prairie dogs die when they eat bubblegum?
According to Summary of Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Colony Mapping Efforts at Five Colony Complexes in Central and Southeastern Montana (2012):
From our North Dakota experience, we have concluded that ...
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Does Phenol (Carbolic acid) repel snakes?
There is scant evidence that there is such a thing as a snake repellent, and Phenol is not it.
A decidedly western source from 1970s does not list Phenol as a supposed repellent, but decries the ...
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