Skepticism
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Study: How a Hobby Could Save Your Life
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! So in 2020, if you’ll recall, we had a little worldwide pandemic that forced a lot of us to hole up in our homes, alone, and drastically limit interactions with other people–friends, family, and strangers alike. A lot of people,…
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Did a New Study Debunk “Man the Hunter?” Not Quite
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! At last, the myth of “Man the Hunter” has been tracked down, lured into a trap, and beaten to death by a plucky group of Amazons led by Diana herself. The myth was then stripped of its meat and organs,…
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Study: Can You Fast Your Way to Good Health? (Maybe!)
As you may know, every month I do a live “ask me anything” stream for my patrons, and last month one patron asked me to look into the research on intermittent fasting. I did, and I found the subject really interesting, and I said that I’d consider doing a public video on it if a new, really interesting study on…
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Diversity Didn’t Destroy OceanGate’s Sub; Libertarianism Did
I’m not sure if any of you noticed but last week a handful of billionaires imploded themselves trying to go see the wreck of the Titanic. Did you see that? Were you aware that that happened? If you weren’t aware, please let me know in the comments your secret to living a happier life than me, because I try to…
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No, Scientists’ Poor Communication isn’t Responsible for Climate Change
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: You know how humans have been systematically destroying the planet for a century or two and now we know almost exactly how to stop doing it but we keep doing it anyway because it’s not our problem, it’s our…
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No One Should “Debate” Anti-Vaxx Kook RFK, Jr. on Joe Rogan
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Here’s a fun fact about me: Boston University allows students to basically pick whatever they want for their concentration (which is like a minor but not as hard to get), so I picked Classics because I was already interested in…
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Conspiracy Time! UFOs & the COVID Lab Leak Hypothesis
There are two big news stories currently getting a lot of traction not just on social media but in well-respected mainstream newspapers and even in world governments. At first blush it seems like they have nothing in common: story number one is a report from The Times (in the UK) claiming “fresh evidence” that proves SARS-CoV-2 was developed in a…
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The Illuminaughtii “Drama”: an MLM Critic’s History of Abuse and Censorship
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I regret to inform you that another creator I thought I liked has revealed themselves to be an enormous, embarrassing hypocrite. Why does this keep happening lately? I feel like I went a good 10 years not being seriously disappointed…
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