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Skepticism
911 Call Analysis: Junk Science that Imprisons Innocent People
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Hey, let’s start with a content warning: in this video I’m going to be talking about some topics like murder, so if that’s too much for you, you may want to give this one a skip. In fact, I’m going…
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Who’s Pranking Sam Harris & Eric Weinstein about UFOs?
Transcript: Let me take you back in time to, oh, 2008 or so. I was enjoying my life as a noted atheist and “skeptic,” traveling the world giving talks alongside luminaries like Michael Shermer (editor in chief of Skeptic Magazine) and Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. We would all hang out…
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Republicans: Save the Whales, Kill the Wind Farms
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! What would it take to get present day American conservatives to care about an environmental issue? Like, say, “saving the whales”? How about this: a stupid pseudoscientific conspiracy theory spread by the oil and gas industry to convince people to…
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Journalist Thinks Trans Kids Are Getting Hormones to Turn into Helicopters
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I’ve been wanting to address the most recent spate of transphobic news, but where do I even start? It’s been an entire year since I last discussed the pseudoscience behind anti-trans legislation that presumably wants to “protect the children” from…
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What’s ACTUALLY Scary about Bing’s “Artificial Intelligence”
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: The last time I covered the topic of “artificial intelligence,” which is the name we’ve decided to just hand out willy nilly to chatbots, I had just read Siddhartha and it inspired me to think about things in terms…
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Skepticism
Revisiting the Science: Do Masks Stop COVID-19?
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 been awhile since I’ve talked about COVID mitigation measures, but I wanted to circle back to this topic based on a HUGE new Cochrane review that has just been published about the effectiveness of masks. And the update…
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Why No One is Talking about the Ohio Train Derailment (and Other Conspiracies)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: On the night of February 3rd, a Norfolk Southern train carrying dangerous chemicals like vinyl chloride derailed about 50 miles outside of Pittsburgh, in a little town called East Palestine, Ohio. A huge fire erupted, leading authorities to evacuate…
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The American Right to Die in a Gas Stove Explosion
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I know I have to talk about gas stoves. I do not want to talk about gas stoves, but I have to, because it’s misinformation and far right politicization of science but my god it’s just so obvious and…
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