Rebecca Watson

Rebecca is a writer, speaker, YouTube personality, and unrepentant science nerd. In addition to founding and continuing to run Skepchick, she hosts Quiz-o-Tron, a monthly science-themed quiz show and podcast that pits comedians against nerds. There is an asteroid named in her honor. Twitter @rebeccawatson Mastodon mstdn.social/@rebeccawatson Instagram @actuallyrebeccawatson TikTok @actuallyrebeccawatson YouTube @rebeccawatson BlueSky @rebeccawatson.bsky.social
  • Brilliant Idea: The 10-Minute Lecture

    Now that I have a nice site for Boston Skeptics, I’ll be posting there more often. When I feel it’s a subject the general Skepchick crowd might also like, I’ll be cross-posting. Those of you in Boston may want to sign up for the RSS over there (or check in over there more often), since I won’t be cross-posting everything…

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  • Skepchick Quickies 11.19

    I’m nowhere near as good at the Quickies as Jen and Amanda, but I shall attempt with a late entry today! Enjoy. Obama just chose Nobel-prize winning chemist Mario Molina to be on his transition team. (Thanks Joe!) A woman got a brand new windpipe grown from stem cells! (Thanks, Maria!) Bigoted hate group Focus on the Family cut 202…

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  • Press Releases “They” Don’t Want You to Know About: Trudeau Gets a Smackdown

    Thanks to the SkepTick for both the above headline and the link to this FTC Press Release I can’t believe I missed. In case you don’t feel like clicking the link, the release’s headline says it all: Kevin Trudeau Banned from Infomercials For Three Years, Ordered to Pay More Than $5 Million for False Claims About Weight-Loss Book Ha ha…

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  • Idiots Pretend to Do Science, Get Fooled by Magician

    I know many of you reading this are working scientists, and so of course you’re familiar with the famed medical journal, International Journal of Yoga. For those of you who don’t subscribe, you’ll be excited to learn that IJOY has just published this solid, peer-reviewed paper called Investigating paranormal phenomena: Functional brain imaging of telepathy. Better yet, it’s available online!…

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  • Mojo’s The Circuit

    No posts today on Skepchick, maybe because we’re all spending the whole day inside watching a Firefly marathon and eating S’mores. Or, maybe that’s just me, Joshua, and Expatria? Whatevs. Here, enjoy this video my pal George just sent. I like this fellow, and I love robots!

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  • COTW FTW!*

    What a great week! We introduced the first ever Skepchick podcast, coordinated a nationwide Skepchick protest day tomorrow, and did a bunch of other rad stuff until today when we all ate a truckload of sugary pastries. Or, maybe that was just me? Comment o’ the Week! It was tough this week, mostly because Sam nominated an entire thread, proving…

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  • Skepchick Drink Contest Results, Part I!

    Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Blame me, not the lovely ladies who head up the Contest Committee here at Skepchick. Here’s the background for those of you just joining us: back in July, we hosted a contest in which readers were invited to submit skeptic- and science-themed drinks for our consideration. We chose those that sounded best and sat down…

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  • The Mystery of Intuition Finally Revealed by Crackpot Author

    Recently I’ve been digging into the idea of intuition, particularly the notion that women possess some grand insight that men lack. I wasn’t planning to post a blog entry about it, but this morning I was going through emails looking for something to write about when I opened my Google alert for the word “psychic,” an alert that has often…

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