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During a heated episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan openly challenged Candace Owens over her dismissal of climate change. As Owens argued the issue was exaggerated and politically motivated ...

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THE Australian National Research Council performs a useful service to its territorial men of science, and to a larger body of workers, by the publication of Australian Science Abstracts. This appears ...

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