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He said something close to this, and the wording matters. Thompson issued a statement through his lawyer in August 2014 saying he and his co-authors left out a finding about African American boys vaccinated before 36 months. The destroying part comes from a taped call with Brian Hooker, read into the congressional record, describing co-authors putting hard copies in a bin. The underlying dataset was kept, and Thompson has never said the results were falsified.
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The general point about vaccine trials is stronger than this specific framing. Vaccine trials often compare against an existing vaccine rather than saline, because withholding protection from infants in a trial raises an ethics problem. That is a real design tradeoff worth arguing about, but the choice is made openly and for a stated reason, not hidden.
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Peer-reviewed literature consistently shows that vaccines prevent severe disease without increasing the overall burden of chronic illness. Studies making contrary claims often suffer from selection bias or 'healthy user' bias in their methodology.
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MMR clinical trials often used active controls because withholding the vaccine from a control group would expose children to dangerous, highly contagious diseases. This is a standard ethical practice in clinical research.
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While the 1986 Act provides significant liability protection for design defects and side effects, it is not 'complete' immunity. Lawsuits can still be filed for manufacturing defects, negligence, or if the company failed to warn of known risks.
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While significantly safer than smoking due to the lack of tar and carbon monoxide, the '99%' figure is a marketing claim. Long-term studies on Swedish Snus and pouches suggest reduced risk, but they are not entirely harmless and still contain addictive nicotine.
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The opposite is what happened. Grusch told the House Oversight subcommittee in July 2023 that he had never personally seen a craft or a body, that his account came from roughly 40 witnesses he interviewed, and that he could not produce the underlying material publicly because he would go to jail for releasing classified information. No photographs were released to anyone.
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Rogan did say this, but only about his first time on stage. In the transcript he says he was more afraid the first time he got on stage than the first time he fought, and that it "was nuts". He did not say stand-up is scarier than professional fighting in general, and he said "first time I fought," not a pro bout. The claim stretches a one-time comparison into a general rule. A different passage in the episode where Rogan says stand-up is scarier than professional fights in general would flip this verdict.
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Not a checkable claim: this describes Rogan's personal opinion that losing over and over in jiu-jitsu humbles people, not a fact about the world. The transcript window given here covers Gracie family history and never mentions narcissism, and episode summaries describe only a general talk about the humility martial arts teach. Whether jiu-jitsu 'cures' narcissism is a value judgment, and Rogan himself is not citing any study. A transcript showing Rogan citing a specific study that found grappling training lowers measured narcissism would turn this into a checkable claim.
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While popular, the theory remains a subject of intense debate in the archaeological and geological communities, with many scientists demanding more concrete evidence.
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The Online Safety Act 2023 introduces significant regulations on 'legal but harmful' content, which critics argue chills speech. However, the UK still maintains legal frameworks for free expression, albeit with more restrictions than the US First Amendment.
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The speakers in this window say the Iran situation is frightening and could go badly wrong, including through a major terror attack in America. Nobody says the US is driven by a wish to start World War III. The Trump administration's stated goals were to destroy Iran's missiles and navy, keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, curb terrorist proxies, and possibly push regime change. The CSMonitor six-month review lists these goals, and CBS reports that the president later said he was not vying for regime change.
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There are real, documented controversies over political bias in UK classrooms, including accusations that some schools have pushed one sided material on students. But 'forced' overstates it: official UK government guidance requires teachers to stay impartial and present balanced views on contested political issues, and explicitly tells them to avoid promoting their own opinions, so there's no national policy mandating ideological teaching. The complaints are about individual schools or teachers allegedly not following that guidance, not a system wide mandate.
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The Online Safety Act targets platforms' duties to remove such content, but 'criminalization' of users for 'harmful' speech is a legal interpretation that remains contested in court.
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The Flower of Life is a decorative pattern of overlapping circles that shows up in ancient carvings and later in sacred geometry writing. It is a design motif, not mathematics. Modern AI runs on linear algebra, calculus and probability, and nothing in that lineage traces back to this symbol.
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Not a checkable claim: Kisin was guessing out loud about why the US might be acting this way. He said he thought there was some kind of strategy and wondered if it was an attempt to push back against China and Russia, pointing out that Iran sells oil to China and sends drones to Russia. Published transcripts of the episode show he said this and labeled it as speculation, and a guess about motives is an opinion, not a fact anyone can test. This would only become checkable if someone treated it as fact, for example if an official US policy document or statement were found that named countering China and Russia as the stated goal of the Venezuela, Cuba and Iran actions.
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AI is used in logistics and trading, but 'significant control' is an overstatement. Human agents and traditional algorithms still manage the vast majority of physical resource distribution.
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This is a reductionist evolutionary psychology argument. While both involve hierarchy and primate psychology, the institutional constraints and transfer of power mechanisms are fundamentally different.
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The first half is real. UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests in 2023 under the communications offences used for online posts, up about 58% on 2019. The second half is not. Britain has not abandoned trial by jury. There have been proposals to hear more cases without a jury, and they are contested, but juries are still hearing cases.
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This tracks real concern among serious researchers. UC Berkeley deepfake expert Hany Farid has warned publicly that we're losing a shared reality because people increasingly can't tell real footage from fake, to the point that authentic evidence of anything remarkable becomes easy to dismiss as fabricated. It's a defensible worry held by credentialed experts, but treating it as a certainty about the future rather than one likely risk among several is one sided.
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