Islamic scripture and jurisprudence prohibit consuming intoxicating alcoholic drinks.
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Islam prohibits drinking alcohol.
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Many Islamic authorities prohibit smoking, but juristic consensus remains absent.
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Islam prohibits smoking.
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Mainstream Islamic jurisprudence forbids recreational marijuana as an intoxicant.
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Islam prohibits the use of recreational marijuana.
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Jewish authorities differ on recreational cannabis, with some permitting conditional use.
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Judaism prohibits the use of recreational marijuana.
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Minor vandalism affected the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's edge caulking.
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The Washington Reflection Pool was vandalized.
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Venn diagrams may use any suitable simple closed curves.
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The interior regions created by intersections in a Venn diagram do not need to be circular.
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Bernoulli’s equation applies to pressure and velocity changes around flat plates.
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Bernoulli's principle applies only to curved surfaces and cannot be applied to flat plate rudders.
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Excess body fat is associated with lower testosterone levels in men.
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Men with excessive body fat mass tend to have insufficient androgen levels.
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Human studies have not established that cannabis consistently lowers estrogen levels.
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Cannabis lowers estrogen levels in women.
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Women who smoke generally have modestly higher levels of some androgens.
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Smoking increases androgen levels in women.
HARDLY BS
Cannabis has not been shown to raise androgen levels in women.
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Cannabis use increases androgen levels in women.
MOSTLY BS
Crystals have long-range ordered arrangements of their microscopic constituent particles.
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A crystal requires particles to be arranged in a highly regular microscopic pattern.
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Gaseous osmosis is selective gas transport through a semipermeable membrane.
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The phenomenon of strongly attractive gases restricting degrees of freedom is scientifically recognized as gaseous osmosis.
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Socrates descends in a suspended basket in Aristophanes’ The Clouds.
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In Aristophanes' The Clouds, Socrates is lowered on a hammock.
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Deadline adds Worker instances through Monitor or Launcher controls.
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Deadline Render Farm Server allows users to explicitly add workers through the Deadline Server UI.
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Pediatric obesity was associated with higher adult felony-conviction prevalence.
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Obesity in men lowers testosterone levels and thereby reduces criminal perpetration rates.
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Victimization studies mainly identify post-trauma hormonal changes, especially in cortisol.
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Sex hormone levels are associated with crime victimization rates.
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The APA published the first DSM edition in 1952.
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The American Psychiatric Association published the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1952.
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Available credible forecasts do not predict human extinction by September 2029.
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Humanity will become extinct in three years.
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Peter Higgs said, “It’s very nice to be right sometimes.”
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Peter Higgs said, “It’s very nice to be right sometimes.”
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