Science

  • Why I Trust the COVID-19 Vaccine

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Hey everybody, it’s time for a COVID vaccine update! I last talked about the vaccine on March 195th, or approximately mid-September using the old Julian calendar. In that video, I talked about how it’s okay to be skeptical of…

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  • Richard Dawkins Doesn’t Know What a Woman Is

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! The other day I was on Twitch murdering people with friends and Richard Dawkins’ name came up and I cluelessly asked if he was still “alive,” by which I meant I assume he’s not dead because that would probably have…

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    The COVID-19 Vaccine is 95% Effective. What Does That Mean? And Why is Herd Immunity via the Vaccine Better than Just Getting the Virus?

    Great news has been released in the past two weeks. There are multiple vaccines that are emerging and preliminary results (from Phase III clinical trials) show that at least two are 95% effective. But what exactly does that mean? And why is it better to get the vaccine instead of just getting COVID-19 out in the wild, besides the obvious…

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  • The Confidence Gap May Not Predict the Gender Pay Gap: Indignant Thoughts on That PNAS Paper

    Why is everyone in the world over-interpreting their data this week and coming for women in science? How can authors get all the way through graduate school and still not understand how not to over-interpret their data? Perhaps in an effort to cause hypertension and make the blood vessels in my head explode, a reader of the blog sent me…

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  • Walking Your Dog Doesn’t Give You COVID

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Well it’s not even Thanksgiving yet and COVID-19 cases are once again skyrocketing around the United States. Admittedly cases were way down in the Bay Area so I’ve been a bit lax about quarantine, in that I’ve been going…

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  • Do Not Fall Prey to Nature’s Trap Without Changing Your Behavior

    Yesterday I wrote about a problematic new paper from Nature Communications suggesting that trainees are disadvantaged by being mentored by women mentors. This morning, as I try to engage with my laboratory, home school my children, clean the house and do laundry because my physician husband has clinic, and try to eek out some small amount of time for myself,…

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  • Tricking Conservatives into Caring About COVID

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! One recurring theme of this never-ending pandemic nightmare is that there’s a stark difference between the way that liberals and conservatives react to it. In general, libs have been following the advice of scientists by staying at home when possible,…

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  • Why COVID-19 Is Worse For Poor People (and How to Fix It)

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Back in September I talked about the paper describing the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally as a “superspreader” event in which a bunch of idiots came together during a pandemic, drank and shouted and partied together, then went back to their respective…

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