Paul Johnson

United Kingdom

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Did Donald Trump make campaign contributions to Attorneys General who then decided not to prosecute him?

united-states politics donald-trump asked Sep 5, 2016 at 19:13

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61 votes

Did climate scientists in the 1980s predict a 1 meter sea level rise by now?

climate-change asked Sep 3, 2018 at 10:38

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57 votes

Is Fox News not classified as a news channel?

media asked Nov 21, 2019 at 12:54

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47 votes

Would Trump's defence work in other courts?

united-states criminal-law asked Feb 10, 2021 at 11:47

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42 votes

Did the government of Florida reject all K-5 maths books, except for ones issued by a specific ex-employer of a colleague of the current governor?

politics education asked Apr 25, 2022 at 21:15

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41 votes

Are environmentalists largely responsible for Californian forest fires?

united-states climate-change fire asked Oct 8, 2020 at 11:07

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41 votes

What could the US federal government do to reform the police?

united-states president congress police racism asked Aug 30, 2020 at 8:16

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37 votes

Are chemicals in plastic causing a significant reduction in fertility?

medical-science pollution fertility asked Mar 28, 2021 at 13:38

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31 votes

Who are the police in Hong Kong?

police hong-kong asked Jul 1, 2019 at 12:25

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27 votes

Proving "no corruption" in Haskell

haskell asked Sep 15, 2011 at 17:59

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What is "lifting" in Haskell?

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Are these 'French children held at gun point'?

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160

Can a public school in the USA force a 14yr old to create a Twitter account for a passing grade?

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154

Why can't Northern Ireland just have a stay/leave referendum?

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154

What are the main reasons for why negotiating a proper Brexit deal has been so hard?

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123

What is the logic behind forbidding LGBT conversion therapies?

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120

Neil Armstrong: “One small step for man” or “one small step for a man”?

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114

Why is there a broad pattern of excessive force by police towards protestors in spite of international focus on this use of force?

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What does Kanye (Ye) West actually mean by "Abolish the 13th Amendment"?

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"Communism in the Soviet Union, China, etc., wasn't real communism" - is that true?

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Was there no tax before 1913 in the United States?

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Does Umbridge's speech really say that "the Ministry's interfering at Hogwarts"?

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Is it illegal to infringe copyright if your boss or your client ordered you to do it?

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Were illegally immigrating children held in cages during the Obama administration?

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Why is Shelob considered evil?

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How can I teach a teenager to plan better and procrastinate less in his studies?

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Was this Jet Blue airplane snowed in?

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Are US workers legally required to pay income taxes?

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Is any special diet an effective treatment of autism?

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Can social isolation kill babies?

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Alternatives to money and power as social incentive mechanisms

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Has any person or company ever become a sovereign state?

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Why does gay marriage support seem to be "inversely" racially polarized particularly comparing White and Black Americans?

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Why do politicians often say that they cannot comment on individual cases?

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Landlord wants access to CCTV footage after we leave and possibly in realtime while we live there

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Explanation of “tying the knot”

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Daughters refusing to go home with my ex their mother

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Is all disease caused by the electron spin of food?

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Did thousands of women die every year due to illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade?

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Did Vader actually die in the original Star Wars movie, now known as A New Hope?

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