Skepticism
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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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Bryan Johnson is Going to Die (Sorry)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Hey patron pals! Enjoy this one early and ad-free until Thursday morning. Also, there are two more in post-production that I’m hoping to have up for you tomorrow! Transcript: Bryan Johnson is going to die one day. Don’t worry, that’s…
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Sabine is Wrong Again: Capitalism Would’ve Killed Penicillin
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! A few weeks ago, several of you let me know that there had been yet another great disturbance in the online science communication force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out “what the fuck are you talking about, please…
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The Science of Cringe
As a human on YouTube, I am vaguely aware of some of the YouTubers who are, unlike me, actually very popular on this platform. They show up in my feed sandwiched between true crime police interrogation videos and old men giving tips on improving my bean harvest, and sometimes I watch them, and sometimes I am surprised to find that…
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The Long History Behind the Latest TikTok “No Glasses” Scam
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Ashton Kutcher Supports a Rapist: Friendship, Misogyny or Blackmail?
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Hey pals, today’s video is going to deal with some upsetting topics like sexual assault, rape, and murder. Yep, a real fun one! If that sort of subject bothers you, you might want to give this one a skip…
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One Disgraced Scientist Gets an NBC Show, Another Becomes a Libel Bully
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I remember when I was in elementary school, maybe at age 8 or 9, I was doing a science project that, of course, required the standard “make a hypothesis, test it, collect the data, evaluate the data, publish the results”…
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Do Most Americans Fear Vaccines for Dogs??
Look, I know you guys don’t come here for the science, the critical thinking, the space communism. You come here for the ten seconds of my dog at the end of the video. With that in mind, today’s video is all about Indy. Well, about dogs, in general. I’ll throw in some random Indy pics throughout just to keep you…
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