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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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For more on lying check out our podcast, “Overheard at National Geographic.” Listen here. This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of 1989 ...

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