NPR (National Public Radio)
NPR (National Public Radio)
is implicated in the following disputes on Skeptive:
Should the United States end affirmative action based on race?
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How many barrels per day were leaking in BP's 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill?
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How much has the War on Drugs cost?
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Did humans evolve from monkeys?
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Does NPR have a liberal bias?
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What percentage of newborn American boys are circumcised?
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True or False? "The NDM-1 bacteria was transmitted from India."
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Is a human embryo a human being?
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Why are human babies born so early in gestation, compared to other mammals?
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Was Wikileaks right to release the State Department Cables?
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Is the movie "The Sitter" funny?
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Will Muammar Gadhafi remain in power in Libya?
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What was the magnitude of the earthquake off the coast of Japan on 3/11/2011?
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Do the pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables make a difference to your health?
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Is it mathematically possible to cut tax rates for wealthy Americans without shifting costs onto the middle class?
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Who talks more on average: men or women?
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Who contributes more to U.S. political compaigns, business or labor?
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True or False? "Affirmative action is about racial preferences."
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How old are the oldest rocks geologists have been able to find?
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Is Russia an authoritarian state?
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When was the last common ancestor of humans and baboons?
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Should the West intervene militarily in Libya's civil war?
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True or False? "The Vikings discovered America long before Columbus."
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Do organic fruits and vegetables have more nutrients than conventional ones?
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Is Pluto a planet?
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True or False? "Immigrants (including legal and illegal immigrants) are more likely than the average U.S.-born citizen to commit crime."
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What percentage of black children are born out of wedlock?
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How many illegal immigrants are in the United States?
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Does circumcision harm a man's sexual enjoyment as an adult?
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Does circumcision help prevent HIV?
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Is global warming occurring?
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Does circumcision help prevent urinary tract infections in boys?
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Does the color of a hen's feathers determine the color of her eggs?
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What percentage of African-American children are born out of wedlock?
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Does the fossil evidence support the theory of evolution?
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Do small dogs live longer than larger dogs?
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Does eating turkey make you sleepy?
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Is there evidence that supports Darwin's Theory of Evolution?
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Should the United States adopt the British Monarchy as its own?
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What was the warmest year in history?
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Does vaccinating a newborn increase his chances of SIDS?
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Did Chinese explorer Zheng He reach the Americas before Columbus?
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How many Jews died in the Holocaust?
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Was Leonardo DaVinci gay?
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True or False? "Zheng He reached Africa."
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Can mutations create new, beneficial genetic information?
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Are organic foods better for your health?
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Who were the first Old World navigators to land in the Americas?
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Are vaccines safe or dangerous?
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Is methane a greenhouse gas?
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True or False? "In the United States, women tend to do most of the household work and caregiving for children and elders."
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Does affirmative action reinforce racial stereotypes?
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Does affirmative action cause minorities to avoid the sciences?
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Do more educated people tend to believe in evolution?
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Does organic produce have fewer pesticides than conventional produce?
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True or False? "Circumcision reduces the risk of infection with genital herpes virus and human papillomavirus."
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True or False? "Later on, men's female sex partners are less likely to develop some infections if the guys are circumcised."
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Does circumcision have health benefits?
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True or False? "Firstborn children end up a little taller, smarter and richer than their younger siblings, on average."
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