Rebecca Watson
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Politics
Abortion Heads to the Supreme Court (Again)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I love having a mildly popular website. There are so many positives to it: needing to learn how to manage a database or else risk bankruptcy, the semi-regular libel lawsuit threats, barely making enough in ad money to cover…
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Science
Is Streaming Video Bad for the Environment? IDK, Watch This Video About It
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: This being the darkest timeline, we must all find ways to extract joy where we can get it. For many of us, that means the occasional Netflix binge. Sure, watching TV for hours at a time isn’t great for…
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Anti-Science
Netflix Presents GOOP Lab, Gwyneth Paltrow’s New Way to Spread Misinformation
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Gwyneth Paltrow’s “GOOP” is getting a TV show! I saw the trailer for the show and…it’s like, this must be what political comedy writers felt when Donald Trump was elected. It’s impossible to satire something that is so fucked…
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Skepticism
My Psychic Predictions for 2020! Sort of.
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: It’s that time again! At the end of each year, I offer my psychic predictions for the upcoming year. I am absolutely not a psychic, because psychics don’t exist. Anyone claiming to be a psychic is either fooling themselves…
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Skepticism
Is the “Natural Human Lifespan” Only 37?? The Daily Mail vs Science
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: In my live science trivia show Quiz-o-Tron I used to always end with a round called “Science According to the Daily Mail” and after several rounds of answering questions about real science it was fun to ask questions like,…
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Science
Did Scientists Prove that Spoilers Make You Enjoy a Movie More?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: SPOILER ALERT: you actually enjoy a movie MORE when someone spoils it. GET IT? I SAID SPOILER ALERT AND THEN IT WAS ABOUT SPOILERS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA NO ONE IN THE HISTORY OF LEDES HAS EVER NAILED A LEDE THE WAY…
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Skepticism
Should We Lie to Kids about Santa?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Many years ago I used to give one of my favorite talks of all time, which was about how it’s okay to lie to kids. I wrote it for atheists and skeptics who often worry that lying to kids…
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Feminism
JK Rowling is a TERF (but You Can Still Enjoy Harry Potter)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: JK Rowling, who you may know as the author of the theory that wizards don’t need indoor plumbing because they can just shit on the floor and then magic it away, has finally, officially come out as a TERF…
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