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  • Science

    Female Doctors are More Likely to Save Your Life — But We Pay Them Half as Much

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: New research has emerged showing that women are more likely to survive heart attacks if they’re treated by a female doctor. The result comes from a look at more than half a million heart attack cases over the course of 20 years in Florida. If you’re a woman and you think you’re…

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  • Science

    Study: Black Cops as Likely as White Cops to Murder Unarmed Black People

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: As an American who has lived in the United States for the vast majority of my life, I think I can safely say that we’ve got some problems here. Some of the biggest are our gun problem and our cop problem, and it’s strange to me that even now, when we are…

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  • Anti-Science

    Evolutionary Psychologists Publish Anti-Semitic Nonsense

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of evolutionary psychology. A few years back I did a lecture tour where I shared the most hilariously bad examples from the field, like “scientists” proclaiming that pink is a girl’s color because women were hunter-gatherers when our ancestors were roaming the Serengheti 10,000…

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    Can Fish Oil Stop Parents From Fighting?

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: New research out of UMass claims to show that giving your kids a supplement can help you and your partner be less violent towards each other. Yeah, again, that’s your kid getting the supplement, but you getting the benefit. What the fuck? Let’s discuss! This is a really weird, really interesting study…

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  • Politics

    No, We Don’t Use 500 Million Straws Per Day But We Should Ban Them Anyway

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: A few years back I did a lecture series talking about how quickly myths can spread online. “A lie can make it halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes,” as Mark Twain once said. Or he didn’t, because there’s no evidence that he ever said it,…

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  • Cell Phones Don’t Cause Cancer!

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Hey guys: cell phones don’t cause cancer. I’m putting that write here at the top of the video, just like I did the last time this bullshit study made the rounds, and here we go again. The Guardian has just published a completely ridiculous article claiming that scientists know that cell phones…

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  • Anti-Science

    Angelina Jolie’s Breast Cancer Doctor is a Victim-Blaming Quack

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Meet Dr. Kristi Funk. She’s pretty, blonde, works out of an office in Beverly Hills called Pink Lotus, and has famous clients — most notably, she’s the person who Angelina Jolie saw when she famously decided to have her double mastectomy in the hopes of preventing contracting breast cancer. In other words,…

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  • Study: Women Have it Worse on YouTube

    Support more videos like this at patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Guys! Guys! Guys! Did you know that women, on YouTube, get harassed? If you didn’t, now you do. And if you don’t believe me, now there are scientists who say it’s true. So I’m sure that now people will stop telling me that I’m imagining things, that women just have a thin…

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