Science
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I Got the J&J Vaccine & I Support the Pause!
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Two weeks ago, I was delighted to receive my COVID-19 vaccine. By random chance, I got the single dose Johnson & Johnson shot, which I was totally happy with: lower chance of bad side effects, only one round of side…
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Why You Don’t Need a “Strong” Immune System
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! This past January I decided that with another 6 months or so of quarantine ahead, I had just enough time to get RIPPED. I don’t mean skinny, I mean RIPPED, like doing, I don’t know, one pull-up. It’s been 4…
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Quarantine Weight Gain? What Two Recent Studies Get Wrong
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Content warning! I’m going to be talking about weight loss, weight gain, health, calories, food, and exercise. If you have a problematic relationship with any of those things you may want to give this one a pass! A few months…
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New Study: Quarantine Saved Lives Thanks to Fewer Mass Shootings & Car Wrecks
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Almost exactly one year ago, I made a video about a conservative COVID-19 talking point: that COVID-19 was being horribly over diagnosed, and most of the people who were counted as COVID deaths actually died of something else. Here’s…
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Why Are White People Scared of the COVID Vaccine?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Why are some people hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine? Obviously there are a million different reasons why, just like there are a million different reasons why some people don’t want to get any other kind of vaccine. But of…
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Are Some COVID Vaccines Better Than Others?
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 finally happening: vaccines are rolling out all around the world, and especially here in the United States where we are actually being exceptional in a good way. It’s been a long four years. But yeah, apparently we’ve already…
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Can Microdosing LSD Improve Your Life?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Remember a few weeks back when I talked about how the common Skeptics’ joke “the plural of anecdotes is not evidence” is wrong? Let’s talk a wee bit more about that. A large number of things humanity now scientifically “knows”…
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How We Teach Kids to be Sexist (Accidentally)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Many years ago I was on a science podcast with a bunch of older men who had kids, and (on and off mic) we started talking about gender stereotypes. They insisted that they knew gender stereotypes were built in,…
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