Pluto has officially been classified as a dwarf planet since 2006.
Claim:
Pluto is classified as the ninth planet of the Solar System.
TOTAL BS
Science
Research findings, viral studies, and scientific claims under the lens.
NASA has not confirmed any 15-day global darkness event.
Claim:
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirmed that Earth will experience 15 consecutive days of total darkness in November 2026.
TOTAL BS
Pure water boils at approximately 100°C under one atmosphere of pressure.
Claim:
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius at a pressure of 1 atmosphere.
NOT BS
India became the fourth country to achieve a lunar soft landing.
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The Chandrayaan-3 mission's successful lunar soft landing made India the fourth country to soft-land a spacecraft on the Moon.
NOT BS
Battery-electric vehicles have zero tailpipe emissions but still cause lifecycle emissions.
Claim:
Electric vehicles produce zero emissions.
MOSTLY BS
Human activities caused essentially all observed global warming since 1850.
Claim:
Climate change is not caused by human activity.
TOTAL BS
Hunting elevates stress responses in some mammals, but not consistently.
Claim:
Animal species subject to trophy hunting experience greater behavioral and physiological stress than other wildlife populations.
SOME BS
Adaptive management can theoretically mitigate hunting-driven ecological harms under strict conditions.
Claim:
Scientific adaptive management and monitoring can theoretically remedy the negative ecological effects of trophy hunting, including artificial selection and demographic and social disruption.
HARDLY BS
Ethical objections do not alter measured ecological or socioeconomic conservation outcomes.
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Ethical arguments against trophy hunting do not affect the scientific assessment of trophy hunting's value as a conservation tool.
HARDLY BS
Socioeconomic conditions shape wildlife values and acceptance of trophy hunting.
Claim:
Socioeconomic status influences whether people view wildlife as having intrinsic value or utilitarian value, which affects whether trophy hunting can function as a conservation tool.
HARDLY BS
Earth’s rotation makes the Sun appear over the eastern horizon.
Claim:
The Sun rises in the east.
NOT BS
Energy is conserved in closed systems with time-translation symmetry.
Claim:
Energy cannot be created.
HARDLY BS
Nuclear reactions routinely create new atoms from existing subatomic particles.
Claim:
Atoms cannot be created.
TOTAL BS
Lightning results from electrical charge separation within thunderstorms and subsequent discharge.
Claim:
Lightning is caused by clouds colliding with each other.
TOTAL BS
Thunder is produced by lightning rapidly heating and expanding surrounding air.
Claim:
Thunder is produced by clouds colliding with each other.
TOTAL BS
Adaptive management can mitigate some sustainability risks but not broader structural failures.
Claim:
Non-ethical arguments against trophy hunting can mostly be remedied through scientific adaptive management.
MOSTLY BS
Economic security correlates with intrinsic rather than survival-oriented wildlife values.
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People with greater socioeconomic privilege are more likely to view wildlife as having intrinsic value, whereas people living in poverty are more likely to value wildlife primarily for its survival-related utility.
HARDLY BS
Large clouds can contain roughly one million tons of water.
Claim:
A cloud can have a mass of approximately one million tons.
NOT BS
Generative AI can weaken or strengthen critical thinking depending on use.
Claim:
Use of generative artificial intelligence damages people's critical-thinking ability.
SOME BS
Absorbed phase-change heat can raise intermolecular potential energy.
Claim:
During heating that causes a phase change, absorbed latent heat can increase a substance's internal potential energy by separating particles against their attractive intermolecular forces.
NOT BS
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