Transcript: Remember the year 2015? Technically it was only ten years ago, but because CERN accidentally created a very small black hole using the Large Hadron Collider in 2016, time dilation means…| Skepchick
Last month, I posted a video about how online age verification laws are not protecting children from dangerous material, but instead are just a way for the Religious Right to censor content they do…| Skepchick
Transcript: You may have recently heard some news about Costco and the abortion medication mifepristone. Today I want to address some misinformation about that, AND some misinformation ABOUT the mi…| Skepchick
Transcript: Last month, I talked about an MIT preprint published on arXiv about AI. It’s a little early for an update on that, but there is some interesting news about another MIT preprint publishe…| Skepchick
It’s summertime here in the Northern Hemisphere, and you know what that means: falling asleep on the beach and waking up cooked like a lobster, which you then attempt to alleviate by stumbling over…| Skepchick
Transcript: More than ten years ago, I was the target of a massive hate campaign that started online and moved into the “real world” to the point where people were trying to SWAT me and my family, …| Skepchick
Transcript: Hey, remember Kim Davis? She’s the Kentucky county clerk who made national headlines in 2015 for refusing to do her job and issue marriage licenses to people who wanted to get married, …| Skepchick
Transcript: Last week, a masked gunman opened fire at the headquarters of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. Despite firing dozens of bullets from several long guns and blowing out…| Skepchick
Transcript: Hello there, and welcome to my YouTube channel. My name is Trevor. Well, okay, that’s not my birth name. That would be Rebecca. “Trevor” is the name bestowed upon me by my bros. You see…| Skepchick
Public gullibility was a problem in the 1980s when I was caught up in a famous media hoax. It’s worse today.| OnlySky
Transcript: Hey, did you guys hear? The guy who won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City checked the boxes for “African” and “Asian” on one of his applications to a college he ended up…| Skepchick
Transcript: Every now and then, whenever I talk about political conspiracies, a commenter will say something about “Russiagate.” I’ve never made a video about “Russiagate,” but there are some peopl…| Skepchick
I’ve recently noticed a resurgence in the online debate over debates. This was a major topic of conversation in the early 2000s amongst scientists, who worried over whether it was worthwhile to deb…| Skepchick
Two years ago, I made a video about lead and crime, reviewing the research that suggests lead may very well have been the cause of a spike in crime in the 1990s. I also touched on the common refrai…| Skepchick
Three years ago I made a video warning about the dangers of a law that was about to be passed here in California: the “Age-Appropriate Design Code Act” would force most, if not all websites on the …| Skepchick
Transcript: I’ve been warning for, well, a year or so now that the Republican fascist plan detailed in Project 2025 was to purposely overwhelm Americans with so much bad news that the average perso…| Skepchick
Transcript: In a perfect world, scientists could do their research based upon what topics interest them, and if they find something cool, they should be recognized–celebrated, even!–for their…| Skepchick
There’s a new preprint out about how tools like ChatGPT might be affecting human cognition. It comes courtesy of MIT Media Lab titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Usi…| Skepchick
Benjamin W. McCraw’s article “A Reidian Transcendental Argument Against Skepticism” (2025) constitutes an original and thought-provoking contribution both to Reid scholarship and to the discussion of epistemic skepticism.[1] In the following I will make a few remarks about it, focusing on the discussion of skepticism. I start with a brief historical remark on Reid and Kant (§ 1) before I explain the anti-skeptical argument in some detail (§ 2). A discussion of the premises of the argu...| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Transcript: Fifty years ago, a seminal film hit the theaters to rave reviews and massive crowds. It would go on to become a classic, but in doing so it would stoke a fear so great that even today p…| Skepchick
Transcript: Every now and again, I get a comment on an older video along the lines of “wow, this aged like milk. Like this guy, who thinks my video about how the Shroud of Turin is fake “aged like …| Skepchick
Transcript: When I was a little kid, I was a spy. I was super into it, mostly thanks to a book called The KnowHow Book of SpyCraft, which gave detailed instructions on how to be a sneaky little guy…| Skepchick
Transcript: The US government has empowered a secret police force to round up people they suspect of being undocumented immigrants and disappearing them off the streets, out of schools, and even aw…| Skepchick
Transcript: The Trump administration really cares about stopping anti-semitism. Really! They are! They talk about it all the time, like when Trump issued an executive order with “Additional Measure…| Skepchick
Transcript: Hello from California, where things are finally getting spicy. In case you missed it, Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to go help our secret police disappear people off the stree…| Skepchick
I am collecting stories of people who escaped secular delusions, like sexism, misogyny, racism, antisemitism, transphobia, or even, just more generally, alt-right, anti-feminist or “anti-SJW’ worldviews. These are the kinds of delusions that trap atheists. And even when their victims are religious, the stories are still often the same, or similar enough that you will […]| Richard Carrier Blogs
Back in 2015, Jon Ronson published a book called So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, which explored the relatively recent phenomenon of people using social media to, well, publicly shame people. …| Skepchick
Transcript: Back in March, I talked about a court case in which Trump’s attorneys argued that the administration had the right to discriminate against transgender people by citing research that dir…| Skepchick
Every few months there is a news story about some AI company CEO saying that in a year almost all code will be written by AI. The software engineer, where previously having tremendous bargaining power, is going from scarcity to redundant. The valuations are huge. Windsurf was recently bought for $3bn. Anthropic raises money on a bi-weekly cadence and most recently has a valuation of $61.5bn. Even the French are getting in on it, Mistral having a valuation of $6bn. And Cursor raised at a $10bn...| pid1
Transcript: When I was 18, I was finishing up my freshman year of college and was hoping to stay in Boston by getting an apartment, which would require a roommate. A girl who worked in the cosmetic…| Skepchick
Transcript: About 15 years ago, the dumbest politician to take the national stage up until that point was Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and, at that time, the Republican Vice President…| Skepchick
Transcript: There’s so much bad news surrounding “AI” right now that I’ve had a real hard time narrowing down what I want to talk about. By “AI” of course, I’m talking about generative AI, large la…| Skepchick
Wow, yet another wealthy and famous lover of free speech is using a libel lawsuit to try to silence his critics! This video is going to be a bit all over the place so I’m breaking it up into …| Skepchick
Transcript: A lot of people think they’re too smart to fall for advertising tricks, but I think it’s important to recognize that some techniques work on a person no matter how savvy they are. As an…| Skepchick
Transcript: Hey, remember “Adam Ruins Everything?” It was a show starring Adam Conover. Personally, I never watched it because I’m bigoted against this entire look–all of it. The hair, the smirk, t…| Skepchick
This weekend I finished reading the new book Science Fictions, by Stuart Ritchie. It’s about the replication crisis in science, the…| Medium
Transcript: Last week I talked about a new study that showed that conservative Americans now distrust science so much that they even hate the fields of study that support their worldview. Today, I …| Skepchick
Henry Blodget, the co-founder of Business Insider, recently made headlines because he used ChatGPT to create a digital assistant, made it a woman, had it generate a headshot, and then immediately s…| Skepchick
Transcript: Well, it’s a day that ends in “Y” so I guess it’s time to talk about RFK, Jr. again! We’ve already gone over his history of being an anti-vaccine psycho, and if you know anything about …| Skepchick
Transcript: Welcome back to the Continued Documentation of America’s Backsliding, where today we get to revisit a Religious Right classic: the parents’ right to control what a public school teaches…| Skepchick
So, a number of you have let me know that there’s a hot new book coming out soon all about The War on Science. Now, it’s not out yet so obviously I haven’t read it but I’m pretty pumped because I e…| Skepchick
Breaking news, a study published this month in Nature Human Behavior has found that American conservatives hate science. This news comes as a shock to everyone who has spent the past several decade…| Skepchick
We are living through historic times right now, and I mean that in the worst possible way. We’re witnessing, in real time, a slow-motion coup against the United States government, one that may already have reached a point of no return.| Franklin Veaux's Journal
The peculiar predicament of philosophy, according to Wittgenstein, is that we speak under the illusion that we’re making sense when in fact we’re mouthing empty words. The illusion of saying something profound is beguiling, which is why puncturing it, as he sees it, requires strength of character more than it requires intellect. The post Newsletter: March 2025 appeared first on David Egan Philosophy.| David Egan Philosophy
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Hey guys, a new death cult just dropped and I absolutely must insist that you NOT join it. “Me, join a death cult?” you ask. But look, I know my audience and I can tell immediately when someone has…| Skepchick
Last year I saw a super cheap mistake fare from the Bay Area, where I live, to Costa Rica, a country I’ve always wanted to visit. So I booked it without really thinking about the timing. Anyway, I …| Skepchick
Transcript: Just a warning, this is one of those videos that’s a bit more personal and not really about any new, interesting science or debunking any bad science or anything like that. I’m letting …| Skepchick
I’m filming this video a few days after Trump’s inauguration and I’m watching my news and social media feeds filling up with information about all the executive orders he’s signing and what they me…| Skepchick
Transcript: Wow, an American politician who is a woman, nonwhite, non-Christian, antiwar, relatively young, was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, and is a SURFER? Tulsi Gabbard would be my most favorite …| Skepchick
There’s a new paper out in the Journal of Positive Psychology: “Towards a positive cross-cultural lexicography: Enriching our emotional landscape through 216 ‘untranslatable’ words pert…| linʛuischtick
Why are they all blurry? In a recent article, Michael Shermer says about UFOs: UFOlogists claim that extraordinary evidence exists in the form of tens of thousands of UFO sightings. But SETI scient…| Entirely Useless
