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- CONTESTEDIs it true that Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a psychosomatic disorder?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Scientific consensus attributes cold weather extremes to global warming and human influence?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Interoceptive awareness and accuracy can be improved through training?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Nineteenth-century Japan successfully modernized while Qing China did not due to institutional differences?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Extrinsic rewards reduce intrinsic motivation?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Open access academic papers receive a larger readership than paywalled papers.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Ancient hoplites held their shields in their left arm?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that A banned historical treatise claims Leonardo da Vinci converted to Islam?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Global surface temperatures have not shown significant warming since the late 1990s?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Historical linguistics can reliably reconstruct specific proto-languages as the oldest attainable language ancestors?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that The historical existence of true matriarchal societies has been discredited by anthropology.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Volcanic eruptions can help mitigate global warming in the long run?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Earthquake magnitude can be calculated directly using data recorded by an accelerometer.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Earth's history includes the Great Oxidation Event and a subsequent period known as the Boring Billion?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Chinese history spans continuously over the past 5000 years.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Global warming occurs in predictable natural cycles?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Upwards lightning uses a single path while downward lightning uses multiple stepped leader paths?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Proofreading alone does not warrant authorship credit under academic publishing standards.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that The tradition of women dropping their maiden name upon marriage stems from historical coverture laws?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that The Roman Empire elite genuinely believed in their gods?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Certain ancient polytheistic religions claimed exclusive validity for their pantheon?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Native Americans historically used fish as agricultural fertilizer?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Specific archetypes of people achieved popular celebrity status in 17th to 19th century Europe.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that India returned captured territory after the 1971 war in accordance with the Simla Agreement.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Gentlemen Pensioners protected the monarch in the 16th century?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Warming the feet induces vascular changes affecting core blood circulation?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that The British colonies fought Cresap's War over territorial and diplomatic disputes?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that There were Jewish Cossacks active in the 17th century?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that The verb speak historically belongs to the class 4 strong verbs?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Napoleon Bonaparte died of arsenic poisoning.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that Doxycycline is associated with severe skin reactions including Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis.?
- CONTESTEDIs it true that William Randolph Hearst telegraphed Frederic Remington in 1897: "You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war."?
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