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…atoms. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, methylmercury is the form that most people encounter in the U.S., mainly through eating fish and shellfish containing the compound. Methylmercury is…
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Methane from cows is only a small percentage of total greenhouse gas emissions, it would be produced anyways without cattle, it is not an important contributor to climate change
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COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines “are likely causing a global epidemic of terrifyingly aggressive cancers”
…misleading. Its caveats take a lifetime to fathom and some can and should be made explicit to lay people. To mention just one example out of many, expressing units per…
…few numbers: there were an estimated 1.5 billion cattle on Earth in 2022 (Figure 1). With a global population of roughly 8 billion humans at that time, that’s about 1…
…utterly irrelevant in terms of its radiative properties and thus its effect on global temperature. Climate scientists pay special attention to CO2 because its radiative properties have allowed it to…
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Carbon dioxide does not cause global warming, scientists are 90% sure it’s the Sun; The climate problems blamed on carbon dioxide (such as ocean acidification and negative impacts on polar bears) are not real
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More people who wear masks become sick with COVID-19 compared to non-mask wearers, therefore masks don’t work or are making us ill
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“Did vaccines get rid of polio? The answer is NO!”