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  • Skepticism 101: What is Skepticism?

    Skepticism 101 is a series of posts intended to help people who are new to the concept of skepticism and critical thinking. What is skepticism? Skepticism, while often confused with the word cynicism or cynic, is not actually intended to be a negative when examined as a world view. Skepticism in its noblest form is meant to be a way…

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  • Yes Trigger Warnings Do Help Me: Here’s How

    Skepchick has covered trigger warnings before in a variety of ways. It seems to be a catalyst topic to weed out who’s interested in making the world easier and kinder vs. who thinks everyone should be in it for themselves. But despite all this talk I often see people talking in general terms, or saying that they personally don’t find…

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    Bad Chart Thursday: Magic Eye CAPTCHA Chart Explains Trump’s Popularity

    I am going to admit straight out: I was never able to see the image hidden in those magic eye pictures (a.k.a. stereograms) from the nineties. Today, I tried to create my own magic eye picture, and even knowing what image was hidden, I still couldn’t see it. I’m pretty sure the reason I never see the Magic Eye image…

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    Free Chapter 1 Download of “Fear Babe: Shattering Vani Hari’s Glass House”

      Have you heard of famous food activist Vani Hari? You know, the blogger and New York Times bestselling author also known as “The Food Babe”, who abhors biotechnology, thinks sugar is “toxic”, and is famous for berating Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte for, *gasp*, containing “no real pumpkin”, and bullying Subway for using so-called “yoga mat chemical” in its bread?…

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    Bad Chart Thursday: Anti-Abortion “Logic” in One Terrible Chart

    You know, there are a few things the anti-abortion crowd is really good at–holding down the shift key when they type; consistently blurring the line between fact and fiction (most fundamentally in ascribing the characteristics of a baby to a fetus); and undermining their pro-life messaging at every turn with death threats (sometimes carried out), gory images of aborted fetuses,…

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  • Accessibility 101 Recap

    Over the weekend I presented at Secular Women Work, and I was so psyched about my presentation that I wanted to share it with all of you as well. Accessibility. Most events kind of suck at it. While there is a law in place (the ADA) that requires reasonable accommodations for disabilities, many organizers don’t really know what that means…

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  • Duggar Husband: Racism is Caused by Evolution, Solved by the Bible

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Links: http://whistlinginthewind.org/2012/05/03/terrible-parts-of-the-bible-part-5-racism/ http://www.livescience.com/1429-chimps-evolved-humans.html Sorta transcript: The Duggars may have had their reality show, 2 billion kids and counting, cancelled because of one of the kids being a sexual predator, but that hasn’t stopped them from continuing to make news, as with the recent revelation that Josh Duggar had a paid account on the…

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  • DNA Reveals US President Even Worse Than We Thought

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Sorta transcript: At the start of the 1920s, Warren G. Harding was one of the most popular US presidents who had ever served. He signed peace treaties with Germany and Austria, he established the first ever child welfare program, he lowered taxes, he cut unemployment in half, he established the Veteran’s Bureau, and…

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