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Did the Irish Catholic church have slaves in Ireland as recently as 1996?
This article covers the topic well, but is more about the Irish government admitting collusion with the supposed slave holders.
Labelled the "Maggies", the women and girls were stripped of their names and dumped in Irish Catholic church-run…
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Does drinking milk lead to osteoporosis?
The China Study authors state that:
osteoporosis is linked to the consumption of animal protein because animal protein, unlike plant protein, increases the acidity of blood and tissues. They add that to neutralize this acid, calcium (a very…
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Do magnets have verifiable effects on humans?
Do magnets have statistically significant effects on humans?
Some example claims are in the Wikipedia article on Magnet therapy.
Which says:
Practitioners claim that subjecting certain parts of the body to
magnetostatic fields produced by…
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Is using a standing desk for several hours healthier than sitting at a desk all day?
Is working at a standing desk more healthy than working at a regular sitting desk?
Source: Crackberry Blog
Over the past couple of years there has been a lot of buzz about the health benefits of standing desks, driven by research that concluded…
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Is there any strong evidence of alien life?
I know that there has been found evidence pointing to simple life on Mars, but has any of the projects like SETI found anything that could point to intelligent alien life out there?
By alien life, I mean from another planet than Earth.
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Is the Bible the most read book?
I have often heard that the most popular book is the Bible, but it seems to me that, for example, classical Indian books as the Mahabharata or the Chinese Four Books and Five Classics may be more popular. Does any one have any source related to…
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Is it legal for a Muslim husband to beat his wife in Saudi Arabia?
Today on the 700 Club’s “Bring It On” segment where viewers ask Robertson questions, one man wondered how he should go about repairing his marriage with a wife who “insults” him and once tried to attack him.
“Well, you could become a Muslim and you…
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Is there a deep, hot biosphere?
Thomas Gold claims that oil is not aging vegetal or animal matter, but rather made continously from bacteria deep in the Earth's mantle (a 'deep hot biosphere') so that we would effectively never have to worry about running out.
Gold's theory is…
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Do performance incentives work for knowledge workers?
In this animated video of his talk, Dan Pink claims performance incentives do not work, and can actually lead to worse performance.
In summary, he quotes two studies (which he unfortunately does not name) where people are asked to do a task, and…
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Are deaths "skyrocketing" due to vaccination?
I was sent the following link by a friend and they were concerned that someone was passing it around on Twitter. What would be some good refutations for its content?
Infowars: Vaccine Deaths And Injuries Skyrocket As Cover-up Implodes
"Cases of…
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Are there between 100,000-300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today?
Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore state this as part of the "Real Men Don't Buy Girls" campaign.
CNN -
There's between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today," Ashton Kutcher tells CNN's Piers Morgan. "If you don't do something…
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Do 15,000+ prostitutes travel to the Super Bowl each year in the USA?
There have been several reports that a large number of prostitutes visit the host city of the Super Bowl each year:
Prostitutes Plan to Profit Big From Super Bowl Week in South Florida
Local police forces have announced that they will be…
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Is overpopulation a myth?
I happened across this website http://overpopulationisamyth.com, which raises some interesting arguments against the notion that overpopulation is a real problem.
Although it isn't obvious from the site. It appears to be backed by the Population…
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Are 50% to 90% of prostitutes in the Netherlands sex slaves?
In Does Legalizing Prostitution Work?, the author says that even after prostitution is legal, a lot of women are still forced into prostitution.
These women are Amsterdam's leading tourist attraction (followed by the coffee shops that sell…
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Does a tidy desk make you more productive than a messy one?
I'm a messy desk sort of person (even the desktops on my computers are messy). But there are loads of personal productivity evangelists telling me that a tidy desk would make me more productive.
Here, for example, is one such site which says:
the…
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