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Did two crisis actors both claim to be the father of the same child killed in the Uvalde, Texas shooting?
A friend-of-a-friend posted a BitChute video on my friend's Facebook wall: Two crisis actor "fathers" share the same daughter in Uvalde, Texas
The description states:
NBC and CNN interview two different crisis actors who claim to be the same…
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Was credit for the black hole image misattributed?
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was used to create an image of Messier 87*, a supermassive black hole in the Messier 87 galaxy. This result has been heavily reported in the media leading up to its announcement 2019-04-10.
Recent postings on…
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Does porn destroy dopamine receptors?
Kevin Majeres, a psychiatrist claims that porn destroys dopamine receptors. A quote from his website:
This is why pornography causes a vicious circle. When someone views
pornography, he gets overstimulated by dopamine; so his brain destroys
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Is it illegal for regular US citizens to possess or read the Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks?
While referring to the the Podesta emails which were leaked by WikiLeaks this week, CNN's Chris Cuomo said on live TV:
Also interesting is, remember: It's illegal to possess these stolen
documents. It's different for the media, so everything you…
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Are there officially pronounced "no-go" Islamic zones in France?
In this Hannity interview on Fox News on 9 January, 2015, American author Robert Spencer said that:
So in France they have set up - the French government lists on a public web-site -751 no-go areas, where essentially the police have no authority,…
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Are women underpaid relative to men?
Many articles, such as this one, report a significant wage gap between men and women of 15% or more as evidence of discrimination. On the other hand, some sources, such as this one, claim that the gap can be explained by factors such as the…
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Is a vegetarian (vegan) diet more healthy?
According to Wikipedia,
Vegetarians tend to have lower body mass index, lower levels of cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and less incidence of heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, renal disease, osteoporosis, dementias, [and lower risks…
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Can 1 in 1,000 black men expect to be killed over the course of their lifetime by the police?
In Last Week Tonight of June 8th, 2020, John Oliver mentions that 1 in 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by the police.
At 5:05 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf4cea5oObY
I have tracked the source to Edwards, Lee & Esposito, 2019, "Risk of…
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Was Donald Trump at ground zero helping out on 9-11?
Donald Trump claims he was at ground zero on 9-11 helping out. Was he?
I was down there also, but I'm not considering myself a first responder," Trump said. "But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you."
And also:
Everyone…
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Are 30% of human embryos "spontaneously aborted"?
From Richard Dawkins on Feb 1, 2019
How could I have failed to predict it? My tweet of the beautiful newt embryology film is already triggering the abortion nuts. Did you know, at least 30% of human embryos are spontaneously aborted? Does that make…
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On average in the US, is there a mass shooting 9 out of every 10 days?
Reading the New York Times today, I came across this very amusing "tourism video" touting the benefit of visiting/moving to Australia, namely, "You Won't Get Shot".
Don’t Get Shot in America. Live in Australia!
At ~1:25, the actor states,
In your…
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Is the sewage from the Burj Khalifa transported away by trucks?
There are several articles and videos on the net claiming that the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai is not connected to a wastewater treatment plant by a sewer system, but that instead the sewage is transported away using trucks.…
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Will the 2019 EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market ban memes?
There have been lots of reports recently about how the EU are trying to ban memes. For example:
Trusted reviews
The European Union (EU) is pressing ahead with efforts to ban online memes under new digital copyright laws, with the controversial…
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Is masturbation bad for one's health?
This question has probably been asked by almost everyone at some point in their lives. But the answers we receive vary from "it is very good" to "it is very bad".
I can understand that becoming obsessive about it is bad (in fact becoming obsessive…
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Has anyone ever attempted to give a cake—or other baked good—with a file or saw in it to someone in prison to help them escape?
One common trope in fiction over the decades has been someone putting a file in a cake—or other baked good—that then is passed onto someone in prison to help them escape. As the website TV Tropes explains:
The stereotypical way to smuggle escape…
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