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- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Younger age and a lower level of education are contextual factors that can impact the tendency to delay or refuse vaccination.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Between 87% and 98% of people with the chikungunya virus experience severe joint pain or stiffness during the chronic phase of the infection.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The law of inertia only holds in two frames of reference if those frames have a constant relative velocity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Newton's law of universal gravitation was refined and extended by the theory of relativity.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Differential rate laws describe the change in reactant or product concentrations as a function of time.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that A medial moraine is formed when two tributary glaciers join together and their lateral moraines combine.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Elephants form lasting social bonds with individual humans such as their keepers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Bayard Rustin was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Extroverts feel energized by social interaction and drained by prolonged solitude, unlike introverts.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The 1986 Chernobyl explosion was an accident caused by reactor design flaws and operator error, not sabotage.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya virus infections present with similar clinical manifestations, which complicates diagnosis in hyperendemic regions.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Newborn lungs are filled with fluid that is cleared at birth so babies can breathe air immediately.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that In the United States, boys and young men now trail girls and young women in educational attainment.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Economic growth alone is insufficient to reduce poverty.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that More than 50 countries retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Owning rental real estate lowers an investor's US income tax through depreciation deductions.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Owning more shares of a company's common stock gives a shareholder proportionally more votes.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The death penalty remains legal in the United States under federal law and in a majority of states.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Undercover police officers in the United States are not required to identify themselves as police and may lie.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Cutting taxes increases a country's gross domestic product.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of criminal charges in a court of law.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Romania operates under a republican form of government.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In the United States, a business cannot claim a charitable tax deduction for round-up donations that its customers make at checkout.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The United States spends more per student on education than most OECD countries, while its students' average test results are near the OECD average.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The big-eyed 'grey' alien image was popularised after the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill abduction account and later 1970s and 1980s media.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that US citizens living abroad must pay US taxes on worldwide income, even after acquiring another citizenship.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Hanapepe Massacre on the Hawaiian island of Kauai took place on September 9, 1924, during a strike by Filipino sugar plantation workers, and killed about 16 strikers and 4 police officers.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The Polish government has made an official territorial claim on Kaliningrad.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is an Australian citizen.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Inheritances received are taxed as income by the US federal government.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The US government's Stargate Project, which funded remote viewing research, was ended in 1995 after a review concluded it had not produced actionable intelligence.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ohm's law relates voltage, current, and resistance.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Electoral College allows a candidate to win without the popular vote.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Income taxes are progressive in the United States.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Russian government hacked the DNC servers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Governments can use social media platforms to monitor individuals, restrict access to information, suppress dissent, or shut down platforms entirely.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Peace of Antalcidas was a treaty pronounced by Artaxerxes II of Persia that broke up leagues of Greek city-states.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In 782, Charlemagne's Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae outlawed offerings to sacred trees and the worship of spirits of trees and springs.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The bacterium Treponema pallidum cannot be grown on laboratory media.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Social and ecological interactions apply to all organisms, from bacteria to humans.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Media guidelines for reporting suicide recommend avoiding explicit details, sensationalism, and inappropriate language.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mask wearing, increased hand washing, and social distancing reduce the risk of infection through physical contact with an infectious individual.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The prevalence of passive smoking exposure in children is particularly high in social and economically deprived families.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Ear infections in the middle ear are called otitis media.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that United States Prohibition in the 1920s fueled the growth of organized crime syndicates.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The American Wild West of the 1800s was largely lawless.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that The British government's response to the potato blight of 1845 to 1852 turned crop failure in Ireland into mass starvation.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Musician Sting was a founding member of the rock band The Police.?
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