Skepticism
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Did Legalizing Abortion Reduce Crime 20 Years Later?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Last week I talked about the data that suggests lead might have been partially to blame for the rise of violent crime around the world in the 1990s, and its removal from things like the gasoline we put in our…
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Is Lead to Blame for Crime & Boomer Stupidity?
If you subscribe to my alt channel, which you should because it’s fun, you may know that I recently spent an afternoon soldering together a vampire lawn flamingo with glowing red eyes. And that activity made me wonder, is the lead in this solder that I’m holding and melting and breathing in making me stupid? Stupider, I mean? And maybe…
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Texas Lawmaker Destroys Theocratic Argument for the Ten Commandments
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: The other day I saw a video and I immediately knew I had to share it with you guys. It’s actually a few months old but it was new to me so I figured maybe some of you missed…
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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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