Rebecca Watson
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Anti-Science
Actual Study Finds Women with Painful Endometriosis are Hot
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I recently discovered a new twitter follow named evopsychgoogle and it’s basically someone who just posts the dumbest evolutionary psychology shit they can find. If you’ve been following me for awhile you know that I LOVE evolutionary psychology because…
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Anti-Science
Sesame Street Partners with Anti-vaccine Organization Autism Speaks
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Way back in 2015, I made a video about Sesame Street. I love Sesame Street. I grew up on Sesame Street, as did the vast majority of kids in the United States, especially today. When it debuted, it was…
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Politics
No, the “30-50 Feral Hogs” Tweet isn’t a Nazi Dog Whistle
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Settle down kids, it’s time to go back to skeptic school. Today’s lesson: confirmation bias. Today’s example: this ridiculously stupid tweet and it’s ridiculously stupid replies. “A Nunnery” writes, “Well, this makes me absolutely sick, but the bizarre #feralhogs…
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Politics
We Live in a Society: Why Marianne Williamson Needs to Go Away Forever
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I have some very exciting news to share: I am seeking the Democratic nomination to be President of the United States in the 2020 elections. I wasn’t going to because I have absolutely no political experience, but then I…
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Politics
Another Nazi Commits Murder while the MSM Celebrates a Nearby Alt-Right Campus Leader
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: We regret to inform you that milkshake duck is a racist. In this case, “milkshake duck” is a 5th year biology student at University of California Merced who just excavated a 65-million year old partial triceratops skull. Other UC…
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Science
Why We Shouldn’t Build the 30-Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Aloha science nerds, it’s time to talk about what’s happening in America’s beautiful 50th state, Hawaii. Hawaii is made of a series of volcanoes, which makes it great for observing our universe — at least from the volcanoes that…
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Skepticism
China Cracks Down on Skeptical MMA Champ & Sexy Cyborg
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Last year I told you about China’s dystopian “social credit score” system, in which a person gains or loses points based on how good of a person they are seen to be — for instance, they get points for…
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Science
Big New Study Says No, Video Games Don’t Cause Violence IRL
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 a day that ends in “y” so it’s time for another important study on whether or not our youths are being negatively affected by the proliferation of the scary new technology, scrolls. Wait I mean books. Hold on,…
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