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Two U.S. startups — Upside Foods and Good Meat — received federal clearances in 2023 to sell cell‑cultured chicken to restaurants, and their products briefly appeared on the menus of two high‑end U.S....
Counting raw COVID-19 deaths shows more U.S. deaths occurred after Jan. 20, 2021, than before — multiple fact-checkers and analysts report that cumulative deaths under Biden’s presidency eventually su...
Conspiracy claims that the Apollo Moon landings were faked rest mainly on perceived photographic oddities, alleged physical impossibilities (radiation/Van Allen belts), motives tied to the Cold War an...
Bill Gates has committed large personal sums and programmatic initiatives to accelerate Alzheimer’s research, combining venture-style investments (not always through the Gates Foundation), targeted do...
Anthony Fauci was actively involved in HIV/AIDS research from the epidemic’s earliest days: he refocused his lab to study the new syndrome in 1981, produced influential work on how the virus damages t...
More than 200 mental-health professionals publicly signed open letters and petitions across multiple years asserting that Donald Trump was “unfit” for office; one prominent 2024 action gathered about ...
Stanford researchers reported a plausible biological mechanism by which mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can, in rare cases, trigger myocarditis—an inflammatory heart condition seen most often in adolescent mal...
Recent reporting shows conflicting signals: large retrospective cohort studies from South Korea and Italy report short-term associations between COVID-19 vaccination and higher diagnosis rates for sev...
Flat-Earth advocates typically reject satellite imagery and spaceflight evidence by alleging image manipulation, claiming government/agency cover-ups (often singling out NASA), and proposing alternati...
Quantum physics does not prove or disprove God; it is interpreted in competing ways by philosophers, theologians and some scientists who read metaphysical meaning into features like measurement, super...
Scholars and commentators widely describe a core of Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters as forming a “personality cult”: recent peer‑reviewed research identifies a distinct, highly loyal subgroup who...
No single country is universally "safe" in a full‑scale nuclear exchange; several recent pieces of reporting and analyses name Argentina, Australia, Iceland and remote parts of countries (and parts of...
The modern flat‑Earth revival has roots in 19th‑century zetetic work and several 20th‑century revivals, but it surged again after the 2000s with online forums, a 2009 relaunch of the Flat Earth Societ...
Bill Gates has made personal investments aimed at Alzheimer’s research totaling about $100 million — a $50 million check to the Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) and roughly $50 million pledged for start‑...
Investigators publicly released video, scene imagery and forensic findings tying DNA and other trace evidence to the suspect, but I find no record in the provided reporting that officials published fo...
Experts respond to moon-landing denial by pointing to multiple independent lines of evidence—returned lunar rocks (382 kg cited by the Institute of Physics), retroreflectors and imagery from later orb...
Available peer-reviewed testing found no detectable peanut, milk, or egg protein in common early‑childhood vaccines using sensitive ELISA assays, and expert outlets say there is no credible evidence t...
Across multiple large studies and expert summaries, myocarditis is consistently reported as substantially more likely after SARS‑CoV‑2 infection than after COVID‑19 vaccination — with estimates rangin...
Available reporting consistently shows that common structural steels melt at temperatures roughly 1,370–1,510 °C (2,500–2,750 °F) while uncontrolled jet-fuel fires typically reach a few hundred to abo...
Available reporting shows several people and institutions have surfaced with new Epstein-related documents and allegations — chiefly congressional Democrats releasing emails from Epstein’s estate and ...