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Research does not support a simple claim that "homosexuals" commit sex crimes at higher rates; large recent studies show LGBT people are much more often victims of violent and sexual crimes than non‑L...
Claims that “reality has a liberal bias” map onto a long-running debate about whether news media tilt left. Empirical work finds many journalists identify as liberal yet detects little or no systemati...
Available reporting cites a range of estimates for annual plastic entering aquatic systems: United Nations sources and NGOs commonly cite about 11 million tonnes per year into oceans (equivalently “2,...
Excess‑mortality studies — which compare observed all‑cause deaths to statistically modelled baselines — consistently find that the United States suffered substantially more deaths during 2020–2022 th...
Apollo-era instruments—most notably the seismometers left by Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15 and 16—have long supplied the Moon’s only continuous seismic record and remain the primary source for understanding m...
US city "most dangerous" lists vary by methodology: several mid‑2025 and 2025 rankings repeatedly place Memphis, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore and New Orleans among the cities with the highest crime r...
Cities led by Democratic mayors do not, on the best available evidence, have systematically higher crime rates than those led by Republican mayors; multiple recent empirical studies and contemporaneou...
Google describes a multi-layered approach to log anonymization that mixes algorithmic techniques — generalization to achieve k-anonymity, l‑diversity, and differential privacy — with organizational co...
Two very different controversies are being asked about, but the available reporting supplied here addresses only the NOAA “Karl” controversy in detail; those sources show formal and informal inquiries...
Peer‑reviewed, month-by-month estimates of U.S. all‑cause excess mortality exist for the bulk of the acute pandemic period (roughly March 2020 through mid‑2022) but peer‑reviewed monthly series that e...
Mayoral partisanship on its own appears to have little causal effect on police spending, staffing, arrests, or city crime rates, according to a large multi‑decade study of nearly 400 U.S. cities . Tha...
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of gelatin-based materials for wound care exist in a narrow set of clinical settings (for example palatal donor-site dressings and other small trials), but large-sc...
Historians and institutions calculate Holocaust victim totals using a wide mix of Nazi-era records, postwar Allied reports and trials, prewar and postwar demographic studies, Jewish community and resi...
The historical consensus among historians and major institutions is that approximately were murdered in the Holocaust, a figure reached by cross‑checking Nazi documentation, demographic studies, and p...