Roots of Reality @_RootsofReality

Podcast: Historian Ben Baumann uses history from the formation of the universe to the present, to show how our world came to be. -Billions of years led to you rootsofreality.com/podcast Joined April 2019

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New Episode: How Will History Remember Our Treatment of Animals I talk about the historical relationship between humans and animals, as well as the modern risks animals face. Listen anywhere or at rootsofreality.com/podcast

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The U.S. sterilization laws of the 1920s, driven by the eugenics movement, targeted people labeled “unfit to reproduce,” including those with mental illnesses, disabilities, epilepsy, or criminal records; these laws were based on pseudoscience and discriminatory assumptions.

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The idea that the moon landing was fake, originating from a 1970s claim that NASA lacked the capability, is false, moon rocks, photos, videos, telemetry, and independent tracking all confirm the Apollo missions reached the Moon.

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The claim that trans women don't have physiological advantages in muscle mass, bone density, and cardiovascular capacity compared with biological women is false. In fact, even after hormone therapy; science shows that these factors still provide advantages in sport performance.

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About 17,000 Americans were killed by gun violence in 2024 alone, excluding suicides. This is more than twice as much as the number of American soldiers killed in the US War on Terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, which took place from 2001-2021, where about 7,000 soldiers died.

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Flexology, popularized in 2015 by StretchLab, claims that stretches can reshape bones or cure diseases, but this is false, as assisted stretching only improves flexibility and cannot alter bone structure, according to peer-reviewed anatomy and exercise physiology research.

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Residential school denialism, downplays or disputes the documented harms of Canadian Indigenous residential schools established by the government and churches from the 1870s to 1996 to forcibly assimilate Native American children. These schools caused widespread abuse and trauma.

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Sept 26 marked the start of the Cannstatter Volksfest, a major festival in Stuttgart, Germany. The festival began in 1818 to promote agriculture and lift spirits after years of famine. My ancestor Johannes Dürr was born in 1804 from the nearby village of Dußlingen.

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The Great Pyramids of Giza were built by Egyptians about 4,500 years ago. While some falsely claim extraterrestrial involvement, these ideas lack evidence and are debunked by archaeological evidence.

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Mao Zedong, who ruled China from 1949 to 1976 as Chairman of the Communist Party, claimed his radical campaigns like the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution would transform the nation, but in reality they caused famine, persecution, and mass deaths entrenching his power.

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Retro Indy: Ray Ewry developed polio as a child. That did not squash his Olympic dreams indystar.com/story/news/his…

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New article I wrote about the inspiring story of American Olympian Ray Ewry, who overcame polio, relearned to walk, and went on to become a gold medalist. indystar.com/story/news/his…

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Lemuria, a sunken continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater to explain the distribution of lemurs between Madagascar and India was debunked by science, which proves plate tectonics and continental drift account for species distribution not a lost continent.

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Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile from 1973–1990 after a military coup, claimed his dictatorship was needed to restore order, but in reality his regime relied on repression, censorship, and human rights abuses, consolidating personal and military power instead of protecting democracy.

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The idea that leaders should prosecute political enemies is false and undemocratic. This occurred as early as the Roman Republic under Lucius Cornelius Sulla, where legal and extralegal measures were used to eliminate rivals rather than pursue justice.

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Jean-Bédel Bokassa, seized power in a 1966 coup in the Central African Republic and later declared himself Emperor in 1976, claiming his monarchy would bring stability, instead he consolidated personal power through authoritarian rule and rigged elections.

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Pol Pot (1975–1979) claimed forced collectivization and purges would build a socialist utopia, but instead his Khmer Rouge regime carried out genocide, killing nearly 2M through starvation, executions, and forced labor that devastated Cambodia.

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Heydar Aliyev, who ruled Azerbaijan as a Soviet leader (1969–1982) and as president (1993–2003), claimed his consolidation of power and restrictions on opposition were necessary to ensure stability, in reality his authoritarian rule created a family dynasty rather than democracy.

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The Know-Nothing Party, formally the American Party (originating in the 1850s from the secretive nativist Order of the Star-Spangled Banner), spread false claims that Catholic immigrants threatened American democracy.

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Getúlio Vargas, who ruled Brazil first as a populist dictator (1930–1945) and later as elected president (1951–1954), claimed his policies and power were necessary to modernize Brazil and defend workers, in reality they suppressed democracy, and stifled political pluralism.