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Skepticism
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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The Speaker of the House Sends his Teen Son Weekly Porn Updates
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Well it’s November so you know that at some point I have to make a video about one specific topic: jerking it. Beating around the bush. Hand to gland combat. Nubbin rubbin. Jackin the beanstalk. Bean flicking. Cleaning out the…
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The Hamas Hostage with “Stockholm Syndrome”
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! If you’re watching this video in November of 2023 you already know the context, but I’ll provide it anyway for the people who may watch this years in the future, possibly from an underground bunker due to one of our…
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