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Dead babies near oil drilling sites raise questions for researchers

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Common Top Level Domain (TLD): 
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Dateline or Post Date: 
october 25, 2014
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Headline Article Mis-Match
Clickbait Rank (1 = not, 3 = clickbait): 
3
Ad Content Ratio (1 = no ads, 5 = too many ads): 
4
Support for Claims
Bias
Bias Level (1 = none, 3 = high): 
2
Your Bias (1 = high anti, 3 = neutral, 5 = high pro): 
3
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Does it have a connection

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There is no evidence to reason the high amount of clickbait you claim there is. What do the links lead to? Are there even clickbait links on the article?

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https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1306722/ This source that they cited in the article is why it has a high level of clickbait. The title is clickbait because it makes it seem like they found dead babies in the ground while they are drilling when in reality the "dead babies" in the title are just refering to the babies that could die from birth defects because of the oil drilling.

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By reading the article and looking at the source links I think that there is a connection. I found that some of the source links on the article itself just lead to websites that are no longer up, hompages of other websites (so it wont really help with evidence), and other news articles by the Denver Post who are th ones that posted this article about the babies and oil drilling. One source link caught my attention though which was this one (https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1306722/). The first thing that i noticed was that it was a .gov website so it is more reliable than something such as a .com website. Throughout that study of the connection of oil drilling and the babies there were many links to the sources of their findings and in the conclusion section of the study we find out that "This study suggests a positive association between greater density and proximity of natural gas wells within a 10-mile radius of maternal residence and greater prevalence of CHDs and possibly NTDs, but not oral clefts, preterm birth, or reduced fetal growth.". With all of the source links on this page that the news article sourced itself I do believe that oil drilling can cause birth defects. I do think that the title is clickbait and misleading because it makes it seem like dead babies were found in the ground while people were drilling rather than birth defects that could cause death happening because of the oil drilling.

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