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Debunk This: Laurel County ballot machines rigged to vote for Kamala Harris

The Laurel County clerk’s office pulled a voting machine from public use Thursday, the first day of early voting in Kentucky, after someone posted a video on TikTok claiming their intended presidential vote for Republican Donald Trump instead was credited to Democrat Kamala Harris. Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown, a Republican, said in an interview Thursday that his staff couldn’t recreate the issue, but that it pulled the machine aside for examination as soon as it got word of the complaint. “We went right there to it. But we couldn’t make it do what she said it did to her. We couldn’t recreate it,” Brown said. “We were pushing all the buttons, and it was fine.”

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article294842374.html

My initial thoughts: It's likely a calibration drift issue. Touchscreens, even the ones on voting machines are not immune to this type of drift. It's also possible that the drift can go the other direction, so pressing kamala would have selected Trump. If this happens to you, you can press other names and the offset should affect them too.

Also, I don't expect any Trump supporter would have this happen to them, and just shrug it off like "oh well I guess I'm voting Kamala." They would make it known, like what happened here and the machine would be taken offline. The risk/reward is not worth it for someone to try to throw the election like this, because if all the machines are offline, how are they going to force people to vote for Kamala? Is the plan supposed to be that only red county machines are affected? Same thing, people are going to report it to authorities and it's going to be all over the news.

So this idea that the machines were intentionally rigged to vote Kamala seems to be a misunderstanding. No Trump supporter is going to let the machine submit their ballot with Kamala selected, just as no Kamala voter would let their machine submit with Trump.

Also from that article

“The official who worked with (the woman who posted the TikTok video) said, ‘Did you vote for Trump?’, and she said, ‘Yeah, it’s on my card.’ Of course, she didn’t say anything until she was done. Which doesn’t help.”

I think this raises the question as to whether the woman knew it was just a calibration error and after recording the video, worked around it to vote for her intended choice, before raising alarm and blowing this up like the machine did it intentionally.

Thoughts?

22 Comments
2024/10/31
23:04 UTC

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Debunk this: climate change isn't real because banks are giving loans to people in coastal cities

I came across a comment with this text that I know is wrong:

Climate change huh?

You think banks are giving 30 year loans to people a million people in coastal cities ( or entire states ) if there was actual and proven scientific data that states those properties will be under water any time soon ( or ever ) ?I think not. The doomsday dates of 'climate catastrophe' have come and gone a few times. Yet, here we are. Are there differences in the Earth's climate? Surely. Has it ALWAYS been an evolving climate? 100%.Remember kids. There was an ice age... and that happened naturally... without human influence.So yea, if you want to run around being scared of the 'climate change' - that sounds like your problem. By an EV... get a tax break. That should help the situation... don't fossil fuels to creat electricity to charge it... oh wait, you do.

I know that this is not true, but I need help with a response to debunk it.

18 Comments
2024/10/31
19:10 UTC

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Debunk This: trump and the leader of isis

For the record i don't believe it but my dad made the claim

He claims that trump showed the leader of isis a photo of his house as a threat and then there was no more Americans killed by isis during his term

5 Comments
2024/10/30
22:20 UTC

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Debunk This: comment about immigration and tariffs

Not my comment I just found it

  1. Cato Institute Study (2017) showed that wages for low-skilled workers have declined as a result of increased immigration, notably in states with high concentrations of immigrant labor. This study highlighted that wages for high school dropouts fell by 15% due to immigration's impact during periods of high influx

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, 2011) found that increased competition from low-skilled immigrants led to significant wage suppression in the construction, service, and agricultural industries. These industries typically employ a high percentage of immigrant workers, and the influx has led to wage compression for native workers.

Vandenbussche (2018) documented that sectors experiencing high rates of illegal immigration saw greater declines in wages. By analyzing labor market outcomes, it became evident that the presence of undocumented workers intensified competition for low-wage jobs, leading to a disproportionate impact on natives employed in similar capacities.

Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2016) highlights that increased immigration corresponds with rising income inequality, particularly affecting those at the lower end of the wage distribution. By flooding low-skilled job markets, immigrants disproportionately impact wages for workers who lack advanced skills, contributing to growing disparity

  1. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the broader measure of unemployment (U-6) includes a significant number of individuals who are discouraged from seeking work, resulting in underreported unemployment figures. Deporting illegals would give them jobs to atleast have a footing

  2. Deporting illegals won't impact the wages of the workers but it could give opportunities to people who are unemployed

  3. Tariffs create job security, encourages investment since investors sense that they are protected from foreign competition, can reduce labor exploitation, domestic industries that are protected from foreign competition would increase wages for workers

9 Comments
2024/10/30
13:58 UTC

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Debunk This: trump not being connected to project 2025

And its claim that project 2025 isn't radical agenda

https://x.com/Prjct2025/status/1810735701308195326

23 Comments
2024/10/26
14:26 UTC

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Debunk This: Pompeii was only destroyed in the 17th century

So, my brother who is deep into conspiracy theory stuff has sent me a video (in German though) where all sorts of "evidence" is brought up that Pompeii was actually destroyed in 1631, not 79AD.
The evidence of this among others is that many medieval maps still show Pompeii, that a system of medieval canals was built through the city in 1591 by Domenico Fontana even with wells being connected to houses, that multiple books of the 1631 vesuvian eruption talk about Pompeii only being destroyed at that time etc
This site seems to list a bunch of those theories: https://stolenhistory.org/articles/79-a-d-no-more-pompeii-got-buried-in-1631.95/

Now, it obviously does not line up with what we know and also the architecture and art clearly aren't contemporary to the era that those books were written in, the fruit is a pinenut not pineapple, etc
. However, there are still some questions open that are rather difficult to research for me, namely the Domenico Fontana canals as described in that link and the books as described here: https://stolenhistory.net/threads/pompeii-was-destroyed-by-vesuvius-in-1631-petrenko.1745/

The first book is the oddest, as it supposedly in an eyewitness account by the author who saw Pompeii being destroyed in 1631.

Now, this is definitely not remotely enough evidence to rewrite our understanding of Pompeii, but I would like to be able to debunk the two last big points that I could not manage to address in depth yet.
Does anyone here have the expertise of the topic to help?

13 Comments
2024/10/24
11:51 UTC

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Debunk This: UVA's Cases of children with past lives

Videos

https://youtu.be/3l7bcb3aoGc?si=CE9xCTAIJlWjPd6D Video of breakdown of james case

https://youtu.be/0Aoew3jKMb4?si=7LChRGiDh8a9TZm_ Video interview (4:35 description of case)

Birthmark cases

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2016/12/STE39stevenson-1.pdf

James's case journal format

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2022/05/Tucker-JSE-Response-to-JL-crit-2487-Article-Text-12829-1-10-20220522-1.pdf

I have spent a good amount of time looking through the children who remember past lives cases at the DOPS at UVA. I have seen a lot of evidence and I don't think that the usual responses "Its all anecdotal" " "Kids have wild Imaginations." "Parents are lying for attention" "The Parents were asking leading questions"...

I have not seen any good arguments to refute the claim that Reincarnation is real. They have over 2500 cases more then half of which the previous personality has been identified based of statements from the child.

Additional info on methodology they use
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2024/09/Moraes2024_Children-who-claim-previous-life-memories_A-case-report-and-literature-review.pdf

22 Comments
2024/10/18
19:32 UTC

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Debunk This: Project MK Ultra is still running and making new victims everyday

First of all, i wanted to make it very clear what everyone should already know that this project actually happened, but many conspiracy theorists believe that this project is still ongoing, causing new victims every year

I will first explain what the project is about and then move on to the allegations

Project MK Ultra was a secret CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency) program, active in the 1950s and 1960s, with the aim of investigating mind control methods and behavior modification techniques. The project involved experiments on human beings, often without the consent of the participants. The program gained notoriety due to its unethical and cruel practices, such as the use of psychotropic drugs, gangstalking, v2k, hypnosis, sensory deprivation and brainwashing techniques. MK Ultra was officially closed in 1973, but many documents were destroyed, fueling more rumor than truth

Facts about MK Ultra:

  • LSD Experiments: The CIA conducted extensive experiments with LSD (lysergic acid), believing it could be used for interrogations and as a "mind control weapon." Many of the test subjects did not know they were being drugged.
  • Lack of consent: Many of the test subjects, including psychiatric hospital patients, prisoners and even members of the CIA itself, were not aware of or consented to participate in the experiments.
  • Violation of human rights: The experiments widely violated human rights. The CIA used a variety of techniques, including sleep deprivation, electroshock therapy, as well as chemicals and drugs.
  • Related programs: MK Ultra was linked to other CIA programs that aimed to improve interrogation and espionage techniques during the Cold War. These programs included "Project Artichoke" and "Project Bluebird."
  • Public disclosure: MK Ultra was revealed to the public in the 1970s during US Senate investigations, particularly the Church Committee hearings, which exposed abuses committed by the CIA.
  • Destruction of files: Much of the documents related to the project were destroyed by order of then CIA director Richard Helms in 1973, before any official investigation. Only a few surviving documents have been recovered.

Conspiracy claims:

  • MK Ultra was more successful than advertised and that the CIA developed methods of total mind control, capable of creating "spies" and assassins that could be activated on command.
  • People allegedly involved in the project were programmed to participate in political assassinations or historical events, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, claimed to have been manipulated by mind control techniques.
  • An extension of mind control theories is the idea of ​​"Monarch Programming", which holds that individuals, often from childhood, would be subjected to a trauma-based process of mind control, creating multiple personalities that can be activated. This theory is based on allegations that combine MK Ultra with ritualistic abuse.
  • MK Ultra never really ended and its practices continue to this day in secret projects. These programs were supposedly linked to advanced methods of media manipulation and mass control, and example is from a swedish man named Magnus Olsson, he claimed that he was a victim of this project and created a site named ICAACT.ORG, which there are inumerous supposedly victims denouncing the project

There are various other claims I won't be able to mention everything, such as the book Tranceformation of America, Lens contact tech, etc.

Any thoughts??? What is fake and what is truth in this story???

6 Comments
2024/10/18
01:35 UTC

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debunk this: the solar system is experiencing changes that will lead to a pole shift/plasma apocalypse/doomsday

2 Comments
2024/10/16
17:00 UTC

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Debunk this: Kamala Harris plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal-justice book, Smart on Crime,

The (supposed) evidence acan be found here.

5 Comments
2024/10/15
04:22 UTC

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Debunk this: speed of light prediction

I was sent this https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1CrGXeEdA5/?mibextid=UalRPS video/reel that allegedly predicts that the speed of light was predicted by the Quran. In my mind it’s untrue, but I’m finding it difficult to disprove it as the video is so jumbled. I was wondering if any of you guys could?

So far I think that the “heliocentric gravity of the moon” means nothing and that they’re being cheeky by using this non-existent constant to multiply with the speed of the moon.

Note: I am a Muslim actually, but I don’t believe in this nonsense.

4 Comments
2024/10/12
10:10 UTC

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Debunk this: Full Tiktok Video of A Rocket Shower Raining Down Somewhere (Looks Like War Footage?)

Video On Tiktok of a Rocket Shower Somewhere

Hi guys! Was on Tiktok and saw this video. It’s really shaky footage of someone in a car driving down the street while the sky is red with smoke and fire and maybe a hundred “flares” (or maybe rockets?) lighting up the night sky with a woman desperately sobbing in the background. Commenters are saying it is Infinity Castle (a kind of online game). Idk anything about Infinity Castle but it seems the posting of this video coincides with the recent war and some parts of the comment section are being really hateful.

Question:

A. Is this real war footage or B. just another AI-generated video that’s just really badly posed because of the time/political landscape it was posted or C. some kind of actual celebration and it’s just fireworks?

Notes:

  1. There aren’t any noticeable warping and continuity errors that usually give AI away…
  2. The traffic scene from higher vantage points don’t seem to be in too much of a hurry considering that all hell is breaking loose
  3. For the amount of flares in the sky, why aren’t there more fires/damage in the surrounding if this were real?

Thanks for the help! (I hope it’s letter C)

Praying this is just another “clout-chasing” account trying to cam-whore a video

Link to Tiktok video:

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS2cH4Ayg/

P.S. it already has 128M views 🫨😵‍💫

4 Comments
2024/10/09
15:46 UTC

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*Sigh* Debunk this...again,I'm getting tired on this, eric dubay posted another video about dinosaur denialism

3 Comments
2024/10/09
10:28 UTC

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Debunk this: Trump administration on abortion

federal funding to plant parenthood actually increased under the Trump administration via Medicaid reimbursements despite using title X program it didn't disrupt monetary supply stream to planned parenthood and about the global gag rule there are evidence suggesting that restricting funding to organizations that provide comprehensive family planning services can lead to higher rates of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions, as these services often include crucial preventive care that reduces the incidence of abortion and UNFPA does not promote or fund abortions

Not my comment to clarify

9 Comments
2024/10/03
03:44 UTC

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Debunk This: Bohemian Grove, the NWO Headquarters

Guys, what is the Bohemian Grove??? And what supposedly happens here??? Is that because when i saw this location for the first time when i used to surf on conspiracy theories i became shocked for the first time when i saw the conspiracy version

First of all, coincidentally all the people who visited this camp is people who conspiracy believers hates the most: Bill Gates, George Soros, The Rockefellers, Rothschild, liberal politicians such as Obama, The Clintons, George Bush, Joe Biden and hollywood actors such as Madonna and Will Smith, also there's a huge owl statue called Cremation of Care, where members worship this statue where members worship this statue, And there are various allegations from people who visited the site and reported its alleged atrocities

Alex Jones, a while ago, "infiltrated" the place disguised as a club security guard to film the supposed ritual where he claimed that humans were being sacrificed, so much so that he picked up a pamphlet when was to leave the place and saw a drawing of Moloch on that pamphlet, a canaanite demon that devours children and teenagers alive

The most famous of them that even made news in the media, the case of Ryan Garcia, he claimed on his Twitter that they tied him to a tree where they forced him to watch teenagers and minors being tortured to death, he also secretly heard conversations saying that Elon Musk will replace 93% of humanity with robots, secret files of the Ark of the Covenant and Jesus and dimensional beings arriving on Earth through portals transforming into aliens after the rapture takes place

Is that these claims fake??? What is the story of this group???

8 Comments
2024/09/25
23:43 UTC

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Debunk this: Study: 10% to 27% of Non-Citizens Are Illegally Registered to Vote

15 Comments
2024/09/21
20:25 UTC

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Debunk this: Pole shift is not only possible but will happen in next 15/20 years

People like suspicious Observers from YouTube or Chan Thomas the writer have said that there will be a pole shift which will cause massive tsunamis and earthquakes. According to them this is cyclical and will happen again soon

22 Comments
2024/09/14
05:46 UTC

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DebunkThis: Researchers prove causation between RFR and Cancer in the military/occupational setting through PF-value calculations?

As with many other users that have done this topic, I will mention my personal thoughts in a separate comment

So a bunch of researchers lead by Michael Peleg made a study further analyzing causational link from another study by Yael Stein from 2011. To sum up Yael's study in short, Yael found that their 47 patients (military and occupational) got sick with cancer and tumors after being exposed to varius agents including EMF/RFR.

Results: 15 patients developed cancer with latent periods < 5y and 12 patients with latent periods between 5y and 10y. The remaining 20 patients had longer latent periods In the <5y latency group there were 8 hematolymphatic cancers and 9 solid tumours – testis, head & neck (including brain) and GI tract. In both the <5y and 5-9y latency groups there were patients exposed to intense levels of EMF, to several frequencies of EMF, or to EMF in combination with IR or other exposures. There were patients with direct body contact, or were in direct line of focus from point sources, or worked in small, electronically dense environments. In the >10y latency group there were more patients with intermittent exposures or exposures at older ages.

Conclusions: The data suggest that cancer in young workers may be associated with intense severe exposures to EMF and short latent periods, especially for hematolymphatic cancers. The findings state the case for (1) more careful modelling of exposure sources and penetration into the body, (2) preventive and protective measures based on control of exposure at source, barriers, and personal protection and (3) exploring low-exposure-low risk relationships for latent periods <10 y

^ Note that in the paper itself they list several limitations including obviously small sample size, lack of in depth dose-response relationship, it being a case series that already has limitations for causation, no control group, and no adjustment for any confounding factors.

Based on the refererred study, Michael focuses on the patients that suffered from HL and testicular cancer specifically (Around 25 patients in total, quite possibly due to their relation to RFR) and tries to use PF value calculation to determine causality between RFR and these cancers. This is explained more under their materials and methods pages and it will make this thread too long as this is wee bit complex.. But I think this definition helps sum it up a bit

PF is the proportion of a specific cancer type relative to the total number of cancer cases in the group of patients. We use the abbreviation PF for both the “relative” and “percentage” definitions and mark by “%” the values expressed as percentage. Consistent and statistically significant association of unusual PF of a definite cancer type with some agent such as RFR exposure suggest an association of the cancer with this agent. We studied hematolymphatic (HL) and testicular cancers. We denote by H the cancer type, in this paper HL or testes. The observed PF, denoted PFobs (the subscript stands for “Observed”), is calculated by dividing the number NH of patients with cancer of type H by the total number N of cancer patients in this group. PFobs = Nh/N

Their results for both HL cancer and testicular stating that the PF of HL and testicular cancer was high showing increased risk between RFR and the cancers (according to both their abstract and below quotes). More found in their results + discussion section (aside from separate studies referenced)

We found that the proportion PF of HL cancer in the group of patients was 40%, while the expected PF for this age and gender profile is 23.4%. The p-value, that is, the chance that at least 19 patients with HL cancers in Stein et al. (2011), were afflicted at random in the group of 47 patients under the hypothesis of no causation by radiation, is smaller than 1% (p < 0.01). Thus, the chance of such PF increase occurring at random is small. See Table 3. Influence of the exposure to ELF: Three of the 47 patients were not exposed to RFR but to ELF alone, none of those had HL cancer. To verify the link between the high HL PF and the RFR exposure we repeated the HL PF analysis on the 23 patients who were exposed to RFR only and not to ELF. The results showed the same characteristics as the whole group reported above: 10 patients out of 23 had HL cancers, HL PF=43%, HL PF expected for the age and gender profile 25%, pvalue=0.037 < 0.05. We infer that the results of the whole group are a good estimate of the specific RFR influence. The data do not reveal whether ELF is carcinogenic or not since not enough patients were exposed to ELF alone to perform the PF calculation. Applying the same analysis on all male patients and testicular cancer in Stein et al. (2011), yielded PFobs very similar to the one expected in the unexposed general population (p-value of 0.55). The normal PFobs and non-significant p-value of testicular cancers compared to the highly elevated PF for HL adds a check on our procedure: a method error increasing the PF of the HL cancers while not affecting the PF of the testicular cancers is less likely

In the end they end up claiming they have a case for cause and effect,

We have presented evidence supporting the case for a cause-effect relationship between radio and radar radiation and HL cancers in occupational/military settings. Our case series showed an increased PF for HL cancers relative to all cancers. The high PF for multiple primaries adds to the case for a causeeffect relationship in those occupationally exposed.

And also

Overall, the excess risk for HL and other cancers in occupational groups complements the findings of brain tumors in cellphone users. These epidemiologic findings together with experimental studies on RFR and carcinogenicity make a coherent case for a cause-effect relationship. We are unable to find alternative explanations.

Note: I might have missed some information that I didn't include from both stein and michael's studies. However compiling these two esp. michael's would make the post too long and I decided to just try my best to oversimplify it and mention what sections to go to get more details

3 Comments
2024/09/14
01:28 UTC

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Debunk This: Doomsday or the NWO code ''923''

I remember last year the same month of september when i was so afraid of happening something that will change the world forever on 23 september of that month, because i see months ago about a numbered subliminal message ''923'' that appears in a lot of famous disasters and dystopian movies and other stuff such as 2012, They Live, Matrix, The Knowing, V for Vendetta and various others, it claims that something significant will change the world forever on that day

I thinks it all started sometime 2015, when several users on social media noticed that there is a number that always appears in countless films, when they thought there was going to be something that would change the world or end the world forever, mostly of these films are from disasters and dystopian genre, for example, there a Simpsons episode that a accident at springfield nuclear power plant caused a massive EMP wave that shut down all of the springfield electronic devices, leading the town into chaos, and Homer after the disaster revealed to Marge that he was stocking on various canned foods, water and survival stuff days before the event, and i see a electronic board of the day that happened, whether it was september 23 ou september 24, and when nothing happened, it claimed that would be in 2017 on the same day that Nibiru would collide with Earth, but did happen nothing and the same day, doomsday prophets claimed that in this day on Stellarium.org positions a woman dressed in dress with a sun on the middle of dress, a moon on his feet, and a crown with 12 stars, suggesting a reference to a Revelations 12:1-3 prophecy and then the sign appeared again in that day last year, and also they are claiming that this year will finally occur something on this day because it will complete seven years when this sign first appeared on stellarium

''And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth''

Various of these believers say that for example, the rapture will occur making all of christian world population missing and then the antichrist revealing himself and imposing his tyrannic dystopian government, an EMP attack would lead the governments impose a martial law and then finally imposing the NWO into action, a huge asteroid will crash with earth, or the Big One in California finally occurred, or there will be a huge magnetic shift causing a mass of earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes and other climatic disasters causing havoc on Earth

Thoughts??? Should we became worried??? Or it's christofascist scam???

18 Comments
2024/09/13
22:00 UTC

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Debunk this: Pregnancy gender detection per side of uterus

2 Comments
2024/09/11
23:38 UTC

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Debunk This: Elite wants to mass depopulate world population through lab-grown vegetal meat, GMOs foods and insect-based foods

I don't know why, but people who criticize environmentalism, such as far right christian conservatives, thinks that the global elites are going to force people to only eat lab vegetal meat and insect-based foods as a source of protein to mass depopulate, i viewed videos getting pissed and angry at supermarkets when buying some food such as a flour and uses a bug scanner apps on them, and revealed it has some bug substances

And they saw that reducing the number of cows to mitigate global warming is a bad idea, because it's like reducing the number of fishes in ocean, it will ruin global economy because the cow meat are one of the most valuable objects of the world economy like the oil

and they generally say that ultra-processed meat would be bad for your health, as it would have high cholesterol levels, these alt right guys seems that they don't know the difference between thinking they will be alternatives of a something or literally being replaced

I don't know the story very well, as there are more things that claim that these types of food are bad for your health, but is this real or is it nonsense to deny global warming?

13 Comments
2024/09/06
02:15 UTC

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Debunk This: We are living in a reality like George Orwell 1984

Conservative conspiracy believers nowadays are freaking and loves saying that our reality since 2020 is like George Orwell 1984

People began linking some real stuff such as more security cameras in public spaces such as rich neighborhoods, facial recognition, ID passports on airports, people talking ill of liberal governments and their social media being deleted, elections fraud that supposedly happened in 2020 and rise of minorities movements to most of what the book trama says

Is this really true or BS to scary people???

61 Comments
2024/09/02
20:17 UTC

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Debunk this This comment on Tim waltz

Walz claimed he was a retired command sergeant major. This is a lie, as he was a command sergeant major but had his rank reduced after retiring since he did not complete the required coursework to be a command sergeant major.

Walz has also claimed he fought in war and that the weapons he carried should be banned. "We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war,". He was deployed to ITALY during the War on Terror, and he may have carried some rifles at one point. But claiming he carried weapons in war is absolutely stolen valor and a disgrace to all the people who actually carried weapons and fought in war like my dad.

Walz has also claimed to have watched a ramp ceremony at Bagram Air Base while in the military despite the fact that he never deployed to Afghanistan.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-member-gov-walzs-battalion-ditched-accuses-walz-stolen-valor

Members of Walz's own battalion feel he abandoned them and should have gone on deployment with them instead of running for Congress.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-leader-walzs-battalion-publishes-scathing-message-aimed-governors-military-career-report

Colonel John Kolb, the commander of Walz's battalion, has also called him out for his stolen valor,

And Command Sergeant Major Doug Julin, Walz's immediate superior, was told by Walz that he would accompany him to Iraq. But then, Julin found out that Walz retired by going around him and getting permission from a superior officer, a breach in protocol. Walz knew that if he went to Julin he would be forced to stay in.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/retired-national-guard-member-alleges-walz-left-his-unit-cnn-interview-he-went-around-me

With all the testimony from Walz himself, and from his former brothers-in-arms, it is clear he has lied about and embellished his service in the military, which is stolen valor, and he quit like a coward instead of going to war with the rest of his men.

15 Comments
2024/08/31
21:33 UTC

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DebunkThis: Youtuber claims Rotisserie Chicken is bad/harmful due to quality and ingredienta

https://youtube.com/shorts/zlhelhx3uMo?si=OMmACeaq904qXbSO

First claim he makes us that the chickens are factory farm. 2nd is that it has harmful ingredients which are added sugar, carrageenan (disruptive to gut), and gmo aka gmo corn starch.

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2024/08/30
19:37 UTC

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Debunk This: WEF will start a massive genocide of six billion people by 2025 until 2030, as part of the great reset and agenda 2030

I remember seeing a post that appeared to me that scared the shit of me last year of a forecast made by Deagel, an US army agency, posted a forecast that the world population will face a mass depopulation of over six billion people through wars, famine, genocides, natural disasters and pandemics starting by 2025 and ending shortly after 2030, as according to the great reset and agenda 2030 because these agendas have a overton window, for example, in the UN agenda 2030 goal, gender equality and reproductive rights, is disguised with abortion and lgbt inclusion

e.g. US have 330 million habitants, in that forecastr it showed that their population will shrunk to 99 million next year, some people claim that might yellowstone will finally erupt in that year or the Big One in the western USA

Thoughts??? Is this fake???

41 Comments
2024/08/30
19:23 UTC

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Debunk this: The Micronova Sun theory

Source: Came across this post on medium:

https://ahonu.medium.com/micronova-best-place-to-live-to-survive-b09e87a0979a

Debunk this: Read further into it and saw there are similar predictions about a catastrophic event due to a micronova to happen in the 2030's or 2040's.

Also came across Ben Davidson's youtube page which has floods of videos on this topic. This also led me to a video made by you-tuber 'Professor Dave', Dave Farina who has a video debunking Ben Davidson's (Suspicious 0bserver)'s 'doomsday cult' he calls it. But then that led me to negative comments about Dave Farina's legitimacy himself. So which one is the real deal? It feels like both sides have done their homework on one another.

Another thing to note, Professor Dave's 'debunking' of Ben Davidson's was made and uploaded before NASA confirmed new findings related to micronova's and the dwarfs. Would that change or confirm any of the theory?

https://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/astronomers-capture-evidence-of-micronova
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zIMVjqj6VY&t=21s

Would love not to be paranoid over these theories that don't have creditability.

16 Comments
2024/08/28
20:54 UTC

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Debunk this: the number of premarital sexual partners is linked to divorce

*Re-Examining the Link Between Premarital Sex and Divorce*

"Premarital sex predicts divorce, but we do not know why. Scholars have attributed the relationship to factors such as differences in beliefs and values, but these explanations have not been tested. It is further unclear how this relationship changes by number of sexual partners, or differs by gender. We re-examine this relationship with event history models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Models include measures of adolescent beliefs and values, religious background, and personal characteristics, as well as approximate number of premarital sexual partners in young adulthood. We find the relationship between premarital sex and divorce is highly significant and robust even when accounting for early-life factors. Compared to people with no premarital partners other than eventual spouses, those with nine or more partners exhibit the highest divorce risk, followed by those with one to eight partners. There is no evidence of gender differences."

28 Comments
2024/08/28
19:47 UTC

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Please debunk this

Even for what they say on this subreddit, it just feels TOO crazy. Something something mystery rites used by the military

Please don't try to convert me btw, its kinda an athiest subreddit but I'm just here to debunk conspiracies

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmmonHillman/s/RfVXRx1SWh

18 Comments
2024/08/27
23:04 UTC

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Debunk This: Miracle of the Sun witness testimonies and rapid drying of clothes and soil during the event after a period of intensive rain.

On October 13th, 1917, "Miracle of the Sun" took place, with 30 000-100 000 people witnessing the event. Aside from the visual effects most of the witnesses experienced, it was also reported that their clothes, previously wet from the intensive rain, as well as the mud, instantaneously dried up once the event began. We know that it rained both the day before the event and on the day of the miracle (https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newspaper_fatima_355.jpg ; top photo with people holding umbrellas). Indeed, we can see on the photographs that both the ground and the crowd are dry (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun#/media/File%3ANewspaper_fatima_353.jpg) I have no idea how to explain this - maybe you'll be more lucky.

40 Comments
2024/08/24
20:57 UTC

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Debunk This: The current Mpox outbreak is going to be Black death 2.0

I'm became worried because since the Mpox was declared global health emergency by WHO last month, people begun making memes about a Lockdown that is going to have in the next months, most of them point to march next year, 2025, some of them is talking that this strain of Mpox is the most dangerous of the vírus family, with a fucking 10% fatality ratio, and Will be worse than Black death that It can kill at least 250 Million people in Just five-six months, and have some and transmissibility ways like COVID, except that people don't get them by Air, and can spreads predominantly in married and in a relationship people, and most of the world population is in a relationship or is married

We are really going to have life stopped again??? Or It's Scam??? Should i became worried??

14 Comments
2024/08/23
19:42 UTC

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