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- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that The women's temperance movement was the main cause of the passage of Prohibition in the United States.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Speed reading improves reading comprehension.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Radiation from gaming PCs causes cancer in the people who use them.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Cincinnatus was given dictatorial power to save Rome and resigned after 16 days to return to his farm.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Muggsy Bogues, who stood 5 feet 3 inches, played 14 seasons in the NBA.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Napoleon ordered the burning of Moscow in 1812.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Biotin supplementation increases facial hair growth in men.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Drinking water from plastic bottles causes cancer.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Online courses improve student academic performance compared with face-to-face instruction.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Sharks deliberately hunt humans as prey.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that People with a normal or low body mass index can develop type 2 diabetes.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Wildfires contribute to global warming by releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Porcupines shoot their quills at attackers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The stratospheric ozone layer is recovering after the Montreal Protocol phased out CFCs.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Neutron stars are real astronomical objects confirmed by pulsar observations since 1967.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Neutering male animals reduces aggression by removing testosterone production.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Muhammad was a historical person who lived in Arabia in the seventh century.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Sharks evolved before trees, roughly 450 million years ago versus 385 million years ago.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The nuclear football briefcase contains a large red button that launches nuclear attacks.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Neutron stars in binary systems can form accretion disks from material stripped from a companion star.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Left-handed people have a shorter life expectancy than right-handed people.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Charles Darwin personally visited the Australian city of Darwin.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Special glasses or lenses significantly correct color blindness in wearers.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Assigning homework improves students' scores on standardized tests.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Time passes more slowly near a black hole than far away from it.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The defense in Dan White's trial argued that eating Twinkies caused him to murder George Moscone and Harvey Milk.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Left-handedness is partly genetic and emerges before birth.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Breastfeeding causes mothers to lose calcium from their teeth.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Guinea worm cases fell from about 3.5 million in 1986 to 28 in 2018.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Sulfates in shampoo cause hair thinning.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Burning lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases, including hydrogen fluoride.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that The people known as the Aztecs called themselves the Mexica.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Waymo's driverless vehicles have fewer injury-causing crashes per mile than human drivers.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Homework improves student learning outcomes.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Eating gluten causes weight gain in people who do not have celiac disease.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Compressed natural gas, which is mostly methane, is used as a fuel in production cars.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Dark matter has negative mass.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Washing hands with soap kills more germs in hot water than in cold or warm water.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that Methane gas smells like flatulence.?
- REFUTEDIs it true that The Quran promises martyrs 72 virgins in paradise.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Strong gravity near a black hole slows the passage of time relative to distant observers.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that IQ test scores measure general intelligence and predict academic achievement and job performance.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Exclusively breastfed babies need daily vitamin D supplement drops.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Training and serving large AI models depends on computing hardware housed in data centers.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Bull sharks live in freshwater rivers and lakes for extended periods.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that A slow metabolism causes weight gain in adults.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that Venus has a higher average surface temperature than Mercury.?
- CONTESTED PARTIALIs it true that Using permanent hair dye increases the risk of breast cancer.?
- SUPPORTEDIs it true that GitHub Copilot was originally powered by OpenAI's Codex model.?
- PARTIAL LEANIs it true that Radiofrequency radiation from cell phones causes brain cancer.?
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