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Skepticism
Try Too Hard, End up Disappointed? New Study
If you’ve ever seen a motivational poster, you’ve probably seen this quote, often attributed to the “positive thinking” preacher Norman Vincent Peale: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” Now, personally, I prefer the bon mot coined by Adlai Stevenson, whose bid for the US presidency was opposed by Peale because he was divorced:…
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Is Your Phone Spying on Your Conversations? No.
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Because I do so much work debunking conspiracy theories, people often ask me if there are any unproven conspiracy theories that I truly believe. It’s a tough question for me because there are some things, like Bigfoot, that I…
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EAT A VEGETABLE! Keto Study Retracted
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Hey, remember Jordan Peterson? He’s the famous Canadian psychologist who hates “woke” stuff, and who helped popularize the carnivore diet. He and his daughter, Mikhaila, announced that they were thriving on a diet of only meat, salt, and water,…
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Elon Musk Made Ebola WORSE
A few weeks ago, I talked about the “pandemic” that isn’t actually happening, hantavirus. In the time since then, there have been four new cases and no new deaths, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization has announced that all passengers and crew are still in quarantine and the situation is “stable.” I know this is going to be…
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The FCC Wants to Rate LGBTQ as Obscene
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: This is going to be shocking to anyone born in the past decade, but back in the 2010s, one of the rightwing’s favorite things to complain about was “trigger warnings”–simple statements at the top of a piece of media…
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Trump Fails to Censor ALL the Science on Vaccines
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: The party of “free speech” has struck again! The Republicans have censored scientific research because they didn’t like its conclusions, and that’s not me editorializing, that’s actually exactly what they said: “The studies were withdrawn because the authors drew…
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What’s Growing in Your Menstrual Cup?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Did you know that May 28th is Menstrual Hygiene Day? Well, it is, and menstrual hygiene season starts earlier and earlier every year, so today we’re going to talk about vaginas and stuff that comes out of them, which…
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Hantavirus is Not the Next Pandemic
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Hey there! Today I’d like to talk about a little known disease that I think just doesn’t get enough attention: hantavirus. Okay, obviously I’m joking. Thanks to our collective COVID-related PTSD, the entire world is now talking about hantavirus,…
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