Skepticism
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Scientists Predict 2024!
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Happy new year, friends! What’s that? It’s actually the whole ass second week of January? I do not care. Time is an illusion, and January doubly so. I’m starting 2024 riiiiiiight…..now. And so as with every year, I’m starting…
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The Guys Who Killed Toys R Us are Coming for Doctors
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! You may be aware that here in the United States, we have a less than ideal healthcare system. For instance, compared to our neighbors to the north, we enjoy slightly shorter wait times for some procedures in exchange for worse…
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Pizza Hut is LYING: They’re NOT Firing Their Drivers Because of a Minimum Wage Hike
Two years ago, I talked about the common talking point that rampant shoplifting led corporations like Home Depot, Target and Walgreens to shut down their stores in the lawless wasteland of the San Francisco Bay Area, which just so happens to be the dystopian Thunderdome I call home. My dystopian Thunderhome. These claims were bolstered by the corporations’ trade group,The…
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Deck the Skulls of Half-Goat Demons Fa La La La La
Well, it’s the winter holiday season and you know what that means: twinkly lights, wrapped presents, babies in mangers, and the beheaded corpse of Baphomet, the esoteric half-man half-woman half-goat deity worshiped by the medieval order of the Knights Templar. And yes I know that’s three halves. It’s complicated. By the way, is it just me or have we lost…
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Texas Abortion Disaster: The Inevitable Result of Decades of Sexist Legislation
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Okay, let’s talk about Kate Cox. I’ll go over the facts in case you aren’t aware: Cox is a 31-year old woman in Texas who fell pregnant this year with a fetus she very much wanted to bring to term.…
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UFO Guy Gets Publicly Embarrassed, Repeatedly
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I know that on this channel previously I’ve been pretty critical of people who believe that aliens are visiting Earth on the regular. Like Eric Weinstein, who is quite obviously being pranked by someone who has him convinced that at…
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Real vs Artificial Christmas Trees: Which is Killing Us Faster?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I have some very sad news to share with you today, friends: after 43 years of not being allergic to anything, I have finally developed the snots in apparent reaction to one particular plant: my Christmas tree. You have to…
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Is Therapeutic Touch the Most Ridiculous Pseudoscience?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Last month, I told you about homeopathy, which I called the second most ridiculous pseudoscience. I’ll be honest, I don’t actually have a definitive ordered list of which pseudoscience is more or less ridiculous. I said it was the second…
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