The tabloids and weekly magazines will do ANYTHING to sell copies, and in this case they decided to run a false story, knowing they had absolutely no proof that it was real.

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The concerns were first aired in April on a website run by veterans who track false claims of valor.

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It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.

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She added that he was the last person to see the student alive, and he had run away as well as giving false names.

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He was sentenced to a further 16 months, to run consecutively, for having a false passport and was also disqualified from driving for two years.

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He used false identities while on the run and built a new life in the US, but was arrested in Missouri last year.

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Ignorance spawns scares, such as the fuss surrounding New York's infamous garbage barge, which in 1987 sailed the Atlantic for six months in search of a place to dump its load, giving many Americans the false impression that their country's landfills had run out of space.

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The head of of the state-run Zimbabwe Mining Development Company, Goodwills Masimirembwa, told AP that the PAC's allegations were "totally false".

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Sadly, California citizens suffer with higher taxes, outrageous electric bills, and false claims of energy savings, while they are denied the cheap power next door from better-run Nevada utilities.

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