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- REFUTEDIs it true that The North Pole is an open sea free of ice.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Evidence that light is a wave was presented in 1800.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Muammar Gaddafi was killed on October 20, 2011.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The 2012 Benghazi attack occurred on September 11, 2012.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Snakes and other limbless reptiles are classified as tetrapods because they are descended from four-limbed ancestors.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Synapsids have one temporal fenestra, while diapsids have two temporal fenestrae.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Reptiles are ectotherms whose main source of body heat comes from the environment.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The classification of turtles as anapsids is controversial because molecular evidence sometimes classifies them as diapsids.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Santo Trafficante Jr. admitted to the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 that he engaged in anti-Castro activities.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The seeds of ash trees are a type of fruit known as a samara.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In Norse mythology, the world tree Yggdrasil is commonly thought to be an ash tree.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that There is no safe level of lead in the blood.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) can detect trisomy 18 with 99% accuracy and trisomy 13 with up to 90% accuracy.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The gambler's fallacy involves the belief that a conditioned probability exists between an event and the previous one when the two events are independent.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Mistrust of scientific information and belief in misinformation undermines efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Amblyopia can be prevented and treated if it is detected early in children under the age of eight.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that People often over-estimate how much others engage in negative health behaviours such as drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, and unhealthy snacking.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Consuming whole grains and fibre can lower the human risk for cardiovascular disease.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Rapid admission to hospital following a stroke is vital for ensuring patients have timely access to treatments such as thrombolysis.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Diarrhea is a sign that a child is teething.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In UNIX filesystems, the first set of three characters in file permissions indicates the permission settings for the owner of the file.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Intron sequences within mRNA do not encode functional proteins.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The tar command name is an abbreviation for Tape Archive.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The order Carnivora includes the superfamily Pinnipedia, which consists of walruses and seals.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that All animals in the order Carnivora are carnivores that eat only meat.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Carnotaurus lived in South America during the Cretaceous period approximately 70 million years ago.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The prevalence and number of colon adenomas increase with age.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cell death in the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease is associated with an increase in iron content and a decrease in the level of the iron-binding protein ferritin.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The amount of Helium-4 produced during Big Bang nucleosynthesis depends primarily on the expansion rate of the Universe.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Women with high blood pressure should not take oral contraceptives after the age of 35.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Taking PrEP just once provides lifelong protection against HIV.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that High body mass index is a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that According to the GRADE system, the quality of non-randomized studies is considered low.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can harm a fetus.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Heavy drinking can increase the risk of certain cancers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Alcohol consumption increases the risk of death from car crashes, injuries, homicide, and suicide.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Taking more than 4,000 mg of acetaminophen in a 24-hour period may cause severe liver damage.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Patients with substance abuse disorders commonly suffer from psychiatric comorbidities such as depression and bipolar disorders.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Muscle atrophy is the sole cause of muscle weakness in elderly people.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The 1950 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the first All-Star game to go into extra innings.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that In the Old Testament, the Jews were exiled to Babylon.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The defining characteristic of mead is that the majority of the beverage's fermentable sugar is derived from honey.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The United States Senate rejected the Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Schizophrenia can result from either natural or nurtured environmental factors.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Estrogen therapy for postmenopausal women helps to prevent osteoporosis.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Estrogen replacement therapy increases the risk for breast cancer.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Total mastectomy is mandatory for the treatment of recurrent breast cancer after lumpectomy alone.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The word migraine originates from the Late Latin word hemicrania, which means pain in one side of the head.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Latent heat transfer rates are lowest in desert locations because there is little water available for evaporation.?
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