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Skepticism
Did Skeptics Debunk Havana Syndrome?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Last year, I thought my best friend was dying. My dog Indy suddenly got clumsy, tripping over his own feet, having trouble jumping up on the sofa, and even as we were rushing to the car to get to the…
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Richard Dawkins: “Cultural Christian” or Supremacist Bigot?
Well, Richard Dawkins is in the news once again, and not for one of the normal fun reasons, like when he tweeted about dogs 69ing. No, he’s in the news because he went on tv and announced that he’s a “cultural Christian,” and that has for several reasons shocked people. For instance, this shocked some evangelical Christians because they’re morons…
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The 2024 Eclipse: Fake Glasses, Conspiracies, and FOMO
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Monday, Monday Monday! It’s the event of a lifetime, assuming you live in a specific band of North and Central America, you were born in the past few years and will die in the next few years, and/or that you…
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Study: What Trump Did to Public Trust in Science
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I’ll be honest, everyone, I’ve really struggled with how to introduce today’s topic. I like to open these videos with a good framing for what I’m about to talk about, to give you some context or some idea of how…
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Comstock: the Zombie Coming to Take Your Healthcare Away
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Way back in 2022 when leaks revealed that the Supreme Court was going to overturn Roe v. Wade, I said that they may try “to send us back to 1972, but the fact of the matter is that they can’t,…
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Debunking Cargo Ship Bridge Crash Conspiracy Theories
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Conspiracy theorists and mass casualty events: name a more iconic duo. I’ll wait. Just kidding I won’t wait, I’m just going to keep talking. First, let’s talk about what we know happened: in the early hours of the morning of…
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Terrible Study Finds “Woke” People are Depressed
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Are you anxious and/or depressed? Have you tried everything from exercise to SSRIs to psychedelics only to find no relief from the relentless torment of your own brain? Well, have I got a solution for you: don’t be “woke!” Just…
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Is Libs of TikTok a Stochastic Terrorist? Am I???
The other day I received this email from the social network Mastodon, indicating that they had removed one of my posts I made back in December, which read “you may think Christmas Vacation aged poorly bc people today won’t understand the Boomer assumption that a Christmas bonus will cover the down payment on a pool, but it actually aged very…
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