Skepticism

  • Terrible Study Finds “Woke” People are Depressed

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Are you anxious and/or depressed? Have you tried everything from exercise to SSRIs to psychedelics only to find no relief from the relentless torment of your own brain? Well, have I got a solution for you: don’t be “woke!” Just…

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  • Is Libs of TikTok a Stochastic Terrorist? Am I???

    The other day I received this email from the social network Mastodon, indicating that they had removed one of my posts I made back in December, which read “you may think Christmas Vacation aged poorly bc people today won’t understand the Boomer assumption that a Christmas bonus will cover the down payment on a pool, but it actually aged very…

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  • The Orthodox Jewish Sex Strike to Let Women Divorce

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! We can all agree that sure, sex is great, but have you ever tried NOT having sex as a nonviolent means of activating social change? No? Me, neither, but many people have throughout human history, and one group is doing…

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  • The Royal Family Brazilian Butt Lift Conspiracy

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Hey guys, a hot new conspiracy theory just dropped: Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, got a Brazilian Butt Lift for Christmas but it went terribly wrong, and her butt exploded, and that’s why no one has seen her since December…

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  • Feminists vs Israeli Disinformation: the New York Times’ False Rape Narrative

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Big ol’ content warning before I start today, friends: I’m going to be talking about atrocities, including murder and sexual assault and war and genocide and, I mean, just name a terrible thing. I’m probably gonna talk about it right…

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  • Study: Guns, Germs, and Steel was Wrong

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I’m going to continue my streak of posting absolute banger videos about the most viral topical debates by today discussing whether or not a book published nearly thirty years ago was right. Put on your flame resistant suit and get…

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  • Why Your Divorced Dad Never Calls You

    Hey guys, I’ve recently realized I’m not maximizing my presence here on YouTube with videos about scientific research and progressive politics, so it’s time to pump up my subscribers by picking a topic that’s sure to be a hit with the kids: old people getting divorced. You want to know more about that, right? This is the first time you’ve…

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  • Catching Empathy, and How Bots Made You Hate Amber Heard

    Transcript: The other day I was sent a link to a new podcast investigating the roll that bots played in the Amber Heard/Johnny Depp trial (thanks to, um, @MansonInfoWars for the tip). If you missed the latest Trial of the Century, it was an extremely contentious civil lawsuit in which Johnny Depp was suing Amber Heard for defamation because she…

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