Randomized trial evidence shows no significant reduction in total cardiovascular events.
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Eating chocolate every day reduces the risk of heart disease.
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Research finds no convincing evidence that Mozart listening raises infants’ intelligence.
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Listening to Mozart's music increases cognitive intelligence in babies.
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Task switching typically cuts productivity by about 20–40% and increases errors.
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Multitasking reduces productivity.
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Vaccine ingredients are safe at used doses, with severe reactions rare.
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Vaccines contain ingredients that are harmful to human health.
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Unconscious processes can shape some choices, but evidence doesn’t show most decisions are unconscious.
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Most human decisions are made unconsciously and are rationalized after the fact.
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Meta-analyses find deliberate practice explains only 18–26% of skill differences.
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The 10,000-hour rule reliably predicts the attainment of expertise in a given field.
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Power posing slightly boosts subjective feelings of power, without reliable success gains.
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Power posing significantly increases confidence and success.
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No published human studies show pineapple core improves IVF implantation success.
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Consuming pineapple core around the time of embryo transfer increases the success rate of IVF implantation.
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Habit formation typically takes about 59–66 days, varying widely by person.
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It takes exactly 21 days to form a new habit.
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Most hedge funds underperform passive S&P 500 index returns over time.
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The majority of hedge funds deliver higher returns than passive index funds over time.
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Passive investing can affect prices under some conditions, but evidence is mixed.
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Passive investing has a distorting effect on financial markets.
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A Nature Human Behaviour study found about 75% of Facebook news links were shared without being clicked.
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A significant proportion of people share online articles without having read them.
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Barefoot contact with grass can electrically ground the body, equalizing voltage.
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Walking barefoot on grass enables the human body to absorb electrons from the Earth's surface.
HARDLY BS
Targeted ads are primarily driven by extensive metadata tracking, not microphone eavesdropping.
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Smartphones use their microphones to actively listen to users' conversations in order to serve targeted advertisements.
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Public online content is widely scraped and used to train AI models.
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Publicly posted online content can be scraped and used to train artificial intelligence models.
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Pre-bed screen use is consistently linked to poorer sleep quality and later sleep onset.
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Screen time before bed has a negative effect on sleep quality.
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Standard intermittent fasting protocols maintain or can slightly increase resting metabolic rate.
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Intermittent fasting slows down human metabolism.
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No evidence shows any secret aircraft chemical-spraying program for weather or population control.
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Airplanes are intentionally spraying chemicals into the atmosphere for the purpose of weather control or population manipulation.
TOTAL BS
Most jurisdictions allow many deepfakes, regulating only specific harmful uses.
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Current regulations prohibit the creation or distribution of AI-generated deepfakes depicting real people.
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Male and female factors each cause about one-third of infertility cases.
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Infertility is primarily caused by factors related to women rather than men.
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