Skepticism
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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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Study: Prayer Doesn’t Cure COVID. Jury Still Out on “Thoughts”
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Here in the United States of America, our conservative Republican politicians are constantly whining about scientific research they think is a waste of money. For instance, Senator Jeff Flake’s list of 20 scientific studies he felt weren’t worth doing, like…
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What I Learned Biking through the Desert
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Those of you who subscribe to my alt channel know that a few months back I decided to challenge myself with a weeklong bike ride through Death Valley as part of Climate Ride, a great organization that raises funds for…
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Would You Rather have a Male or Female Surgeon?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I recently saw a headline from the British Medical Journal that really surprised me: “Death rates after major surgery are similar regardless of whether a male or female surgeon operates on a male or female patient, finds this large US…
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Avi Loeb, the Harvard Physicist Who Thinks It’s Always Aliens
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: More than a decade ago, scientists identified and described a new disease known as “Nobelitis,” in which “some Nobel laureates may consider that their award is a certificate of competence in any field…prompt(ing) them to undertake projects or accept…
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Study: Why Wikipedia is the Last Good Website
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Thanks to a recent issue of Wikipedia’s Signpost newsletter, I learned about a really interesting study on Wikipedia itself. I often talk about how social media networks and other websites fail to moderate users, leading to a proliferation of sexist,…
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Homeopathy: the 2nd 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! It doesn’t come up often, per se, but I’ve mentioned homeopathy several times in the past month or two and each time I have to mention that it’s complete pseudoscience, and each time I just don’t have time to go…
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The Speaker of the House Sends his Teen Son Weekly Porn Updates
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 November so you know that at some point I have to make a video about one specific topic: jerking it. Beating around the bush. Hand to gland combat. Nubbin rubbin. Jackin the beanstalk. Bean flicking. Cleaning out the…
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