Skepticism

  • Terrible Study Finds Women are Catty & Want to Make Other Women Less Attractive

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! You may have noticed that I’ve recently started growing out my hair. But did it occur to you to ask “why?” Why would I, after many years of the same basic cut and color, finally decide to rebuke Ramona Flowers…

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  • The Gender Wage Gap & The “Nobel Prize” in Economics

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Hey, did you guys hear who won the Nobel Prize in Economics? NOBODY. NOBODY won because the Nobel Prize in Economics DOES NOT EXIST and yes I WILL die on this pedantic hill. Alfred Nobel established five categories of prizes…

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  • Why mRNA Vaccine Researchers Won the Nobel Prize & Why We Can’t Forget Novavax

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! It’s a very happy week for me, friends, because on Monday I got my COVID-19 booster along with a freshly update flu shot, which means I can happily move into my favorite season without worrying much about getting sick or,…

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  • The “Liquid Tree” is Very Cool Actually

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I talk a lot about how we’re living in a dystopia: a pandemic that at-risk people actively choose to ignore, runaway climate change that billionaires actively choose to exacerbate, gun violence that our government actively chooses to tolerate, I could…

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  • Aspartame is Safe & TikTok Dietitians Aren’t

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I’m fairly certain that if I am lucky, or unlucky, enough to live to the age of 100, I will still be reassuring people that Diet Coke isn’t going to kill you. In fact, I will probably be doing…

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  • Bryan Johnson is Going to Die (Sorry)

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Hey patron pals! Enjoy this one early and ad-free until Thursday morning. Also, there are two more in post-production that I’m hoping to have up for you tomorrow! Transcript: Bryan Johnson is going to die one day. Don’t worry, that’s…

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  • Sabine is Wrong Again: Capitalism Would’ve Killed Penicillin

    This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! A few weeks ago, several of you let me know that there had been yet another great disturbance in the online science communication force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out “what the fuck are you talking about, please…

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  • The Science of Cringe

    As a human on YouTube, I am vaguely aware of some of the YouTubers who are, unlike me, actually very popular on this platform. They show up in my feed sandwiched between true crime police interrogation videos and old men giving tips on improving my bean harvest, and sometimes I watch them, and sometimes I am surprised to find that…

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