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Truth By Reason investigates beliefs, scriptures, institutions, social behaviour, political decisions, animal welfare, environmental questions and extraordinary claims through reasoning, evidence, logic, probability, ethics and consequences.

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Investigation Animals, Veganism & Sentience

If Animals Are Sentient, Should Glue Traps Ever Be Used?

On 7 September 2026, the UK government responded to the Animal Sentience Committee’s call for a coordinated ban on the sale of rodent glue traps. England already restricts their use to exceptional licensed cases, yet legal sales remain possible. That gap raises a straightforward ethical question: if rodents can suffer, what could justify a trapping method designed around prolonged restraint?

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Investigation Reasoning Tools

Do Community Notes Actually Stop Misinformation?

Community Notes are often praised as a scalable alternative to centralised fact-checking. New large-scale evidence from X suggests they can substantially reduce the spread of misleading posts once displayed, but timing limits their overall effect.

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Investigation Reasoning Tools

UN Warns of AI Existential Risk: What Does the Evidence Show?

On 7 September 2026, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an existential risk to humanity and called for stronger safeguards. The warning is serious, but a reasoned assessment must separate observed capabilities, plausible pathways and unresolved uncertainty.

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