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
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    Real vs Artificial Christmas Trees: Which is Killing Us Faster?

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I have some very sad news to share with you today, friends: after 43 years of not being allergic to anything, I have finally developed the snots in apparent reaction to one particular plant: my Christmas tree. You have to…

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    Is Therapeutic Touch the Most Ridiculous Pseudoscience?

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Last month, I told you about homeopathy, which I called the second most ridiculous pseudoscience. I’ll be honest, I don’t actually have a definitive ordered list of which pseudoscience is more or less ridiculous. I said it was the second…

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    Study: Prayer Doesn’t Cure COVID. Jury Still Out on “Thoughts”

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Here in the United States of America, our conservative Republican politicians are constantly whining about scientific research they think is a waste of money. For instance, Senator Jeff Flake’s list of 20 scientific studies he felt weren’t worth doing, like…

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    What I Learned Biking through the Desert

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Those of you who subscribe to my alt channel know that a few months back I decided to challenge myself with a weeklong bike ride through Death Valley as part of Climate Ride, a great organization that raises funds for…

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    Would You Rather have a Male or Female Surgeon?

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I recently saw a headline from the British Medical Journal that really surprised me: “Death rates after major surgery are similar regardless of whether a male or female surgeon operates on a male or female patient, finds this large US…

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    Avi Loeb, the Harvard Physicist Who Thinks It’s Always Aliens

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: More than a decade ago, scientists identified and described a new disease known as “Nobelitis,” in which “some Nobel laureates may consider that their award is a certificate of competence in any field…prompt(ing) them to undertake projects or accept…

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    Study: Why Wikipedia is the Last Good Website

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Thanks to a recent issue of Wikipedia’s Signpost newsletter, I learned about a really interesting study on Wikipedia itself. I often talk about how social media networks and other websites fail to moderate users, leading to a proliferation of sexist,…

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    Homeopathy: the 2nd Most Ridiculous Pseudoscience

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! It doesn’t come up often, per se, but I’ve mentioned homeopathy several times in the past month or two and each time I have to mention that it’s complete pseudoscience, and each time I just don’t have time to go…

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