Skepticism
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Maui Fires: Was it Space Lasers or Colonialism?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I’m sure by now everyone watching this is aware of the horrific fires in Maui, now the deadliest wildfire in US history, if you consider Hawaii to be a part of the US, which…well, we’ll get into that in a…
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Study: What’s Really in Our Sex Toys?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Before I begin, I would like to dedicate this very special video to my patrons at patreon.com/rebecca, like TK. Your support means so much to me, especially at a time like this when I’m putting out a video that is…
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Facebook Algorithm Not So Bad, According to Studies from Facebook Collaboration
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! We’ve been pretty down on “the algorithm” here on this channel, and no, we don’t know why we’re suddenly referring to ourselves with the royal “we” but it makes us feel fancy so please just get off our back. Seriously…
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Study: Don’t Bother Buying Fitness Supplements like Turkesterone
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! As some of you may know, I am training to ride my bike hundreds of miles through Death Valley to raise money for climate charities. A quick aside, THANK YOU to everyone who has donated! We recently BLEW past my…
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Are Ocean Currents Collapsing? Separating Science from Bad Reporting
The other day I was scrolling through science news when I saw a paper published in Nature suggesting that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (or AMOC, which is a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic ocean that bring warmer water north and cooler water south) is on the bring of collapse, which may happen as soon as 2025. That…
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Study: How Religious Moms Screw up Their Kids in Different Way Than Atheist Moms
There are a number of reasons why I’m childfree: I like sleep, I like money, I don’t like sharing my Legos. But one big reason is that I see that there are about a billion different ways a parent can really screw up a kid without even noticing, and that’s a responsibility I just don’t want to take on. Like,…
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Some ARE Genetically Protected Against COVID-19 (but it’s not a Bioweapon, RFK, Jr.)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Look, do I want to talk about RFK, Jr. again? Absolutely not. But his most recent public embarrassment inspired a few thoughts that I wanted to share with you, and one of the thoughts is actually a really positive thing,…
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The Guys Behind “Sound of Freedom” are Putting Children at Risk
Transcript: You know what I hate? Child sex trafficking. Yeah, I said it and I meant it. Deal with it. I’m opening with that searing hot take because the go-to response to anyone talking about what I’m about to talk about is “Well, I guess you are pro-child sex trafficking.” So let’s just get that out of the way early…
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