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Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge’s_law_of_headlines

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That’s because it’s no longer a journalistic article but an editorial.

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This “law” doesn’t really hold up, according to that article’s studies section. I wholeheartedly agree that it’s a dirty and gross way to head something; but it was more interesting that the answer appears to more often be “yes”. Problem is there are so few examples of it (comparatively).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines#Studies

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