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Using skeptics.SE as a personal, political blogging platform

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Does asking about a factual claim act as endorsement of the claim's context?

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Questions(s) which are really about (unpublished) counter-theory

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Tags: health vs environmental-health vs public-health vs healthcare vs medical-science

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What's the best way to deal with off-topic comments

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Why was my answer deleted with no reason given?

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Found an error in an old, protected answer. How to suggest an edit?

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Are answers based on personal (but documented) experience acceptable on skeptics?

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Are we supposed to flag these kinds of questions?

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Is anecdotal evidence sufficient for answers?

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Are doubts about news about future plans of companies on-topic?

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Why does the “moderators” link deny that user=Sklivvz is a moderator?

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What is the best practice for referring to an online text that is subject to subtle changes

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Should we evolve out of the tags [intelligent-design] and [young-earth-creationism]?

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Enabling mods to really act as users: make “different hats” more visible?

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Can a certain numbers of “likes” or “shares” establish a notable claim (or: Are memes notable)?

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Are notable claims of the past, claiming to predict a future event whose time has now passed, on-topic?

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Why was my referenced answer deleted?

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Do we need a “widely believed” filter for claims made by celebrities? [duplicate]

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FAQ: Must all questions be notable?

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Are people with the trusted users privilege allowed to vote to delete unreferenced answers?

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Let's clean up some meta tags!

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Are questions about skeptics on topic? [duplicate]

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What's a good way to determine if a journal is reputable?

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Is there a standard response page to “Creation Science” barrages?

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Help me edit my recent question, please

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Is the question “Is Gina Haspel wanted in Europe?” sufficiently improved to re-open?

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Why are there no mechanisms in place to avoid obviously false answers from being upvoted and coming off as legitimate?

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I believe a moderator on this SE site (“Oddthinking”) is overstepping their authority as a mod on the site [closed]

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Can a notable claim be implied? [duplicate]

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Is this question on a claim made by TempleOS’s creator better suited here rather than on an actual security site?

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What does an answer to an “Economics” question look like?

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How to handle these answers based upon a perverse interpretation of the claim? [duplicate]

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What should I do about a huge compiled list of claims?

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How to proceed when implicit and explicit claims diverge

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Is indirect notability important?

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How to give the answer “There is no evidence for that, and it seems impossible”?

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About the claims about MH370

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What to do with off-topic answers?

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How am I supposed to improve this question?

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