Anti-Science
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Maybe “the integrity of female athletics” is a bad idea
I can’t stop thinking of this photo of Lynsey Sharp being hugged by fellow White lady Melissa Bishop after losing to Caster Semenya. The recently announced ruling that will force Semenya to take drugs to lower her natural testosterone levels has been widely discussed for the completely scientifically unfounded, racist, sexist, and homophobic, not to mention simply inhumane, dumpster fire of…
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Measles Hits a New Record & Vaccines STILL DON’T CAUSE AUTISM
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Two science news stories came out this week and I just love the coincidental timing: first, measles has hit a new record here in the United States. Nearly 700 people have been infected throughout 22 different states, which is the most of any year since the year 2000. Why is the year…
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Why the Largest AIDS Charity in the World is WRONG
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: The AIDS Healthcare Foundation was established in 1987 as a place for AIDS patients to receive critical end-of-life care in a time when many hospitals refused to do anything for them. Today, they provide a wide variety of healthcare services out of clinics and pharmacies, to more than a million people in…
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City Removes Fluoride from Water, Everyone’s Teeth Fall Out
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Bodily fluids. Is there anything more precious? Which is why conspiracy theorists the world ‘round are terrified of the things that may be in our drinking water. No, not dangerous levels of all-natural lead, which ended up in Flint’s drinking water because of an anti-corrosive the government was failing to add to…
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Measles Vaccines are Haram in Indonesia While Disease Runs Rampant in Europe
Support more videos like this at patron.com/rebecca! Transcript: It’s probably no surprise to you, if you’re subscribed to my youtube channel or patreon, that the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella) is safe, effective, crucial for preventing the spread of disease, and the subject of so much debate and pseudoscience that insane people like Jenny McCarthy and Andrew Wakefield are genuinely…
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Evolutionary Psychologists Publish Anti-Semitic Nonsense
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of evolutionary psychology. A few years back I did a lecture tour where I shared the most hilariously bad examples from the field, like “scientists” proclaiming that pink is a girl’s color because women were hunter-gatherers when our ancestors were roaming the Serengheti 10,000…
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Cell Phones Don’t Cause Cancer!
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Hey guys: cell phones don’t cause cancer. I’m putting that write here at the top of the video, just like I did the last time this bullshit study made the rounds, and here we go again. The Guardian has just published a completely ridiculous article claiming that scientists know that cell phones…
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Angelina Jolie’s Breast Cancer Doctor is a Victim-Blaming Quack
Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Meet Dr. Kristi Funk. She’s pretty, blonde, works out of an office in Beverly Hills called Pink Lotus, and has famous clients — most notably, she’s the person who Angelina Jolie saw when she famously decided to have her double mastectomy in the hopes of preventing contracting breast cancer. In other words,…
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