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
Transcript: It’s tough to find good news these days, so I’m very excited to bring you some today, and it’s all about our trans friends! First, 26 medical and psychotherapeutic organizations from ac…| Skepchick
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: You know what I love? Food. You know what I love even more than …| 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
Last week, Dave Grohl, the lead singer of the popular rock band Foo Fighters and former drummer of Nirvana, posted an Instagram text screenshot explaining that he had been cheating on his wife and …| Skepchick
Content warning at the top: I’m going to be speaking frankly about sexual abuse in this video, so some viewers might want to give this one a miss. When I talk about sexual abuse and religion, I thi…| Skepchick
I’ve spent several years now studiously avoiding learning anything about the ongoing battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, but as an avid user of social media I find that it has finally becom…| 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: A few months ago, my husband and I decided, fuck it, we’re getting solar panels put on our house. At the time, there was a 26% federal tax rebate that was due to drop next year and disa…| Skepchick
Good news everyone, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released their latest report on the state of the planet. Let’s have a look, shall we? Excuse me, I have an important meeting to…| 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
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! 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, claiming that her bigoted religious beliefs were…| 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
After Joe Biden officially stepped down from the 2024 US presidential race, many of you wrote in asking what I thought about it all, particularly how I felt about Vice President Kamala Harris stepp…| Skepchick
I came across a study this week from the University of Waterloo with a title that is clearly in the running for Best Study Title Ever: “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit,” …| 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
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Man, is it 2005 because the US president is a criminal, the last…| Skepchick
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
Transcript: Last year, I made a video talking about how the mainstream media was screwing up the reporting on the nuclear fusion breakthrough, and in that video I referenced Sabine Hossenfelder, a …| Skepchick
//UPDATE: Krauss has responded again . . . see the end of the post.// Jeffrey Epstein is the infamous media mogul who was jailed in 2008 for paying underage prostitutes who said they were recruited…| 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
If you subscribe to my alt channel, which you should because it’s fun, you may know that I recently spent an afternoon soldering together a vampire lawn flamingo with glowing red eyes. And that act…| 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
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
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
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
CONTENT WARNING: discussions of rape and sexual abuse. Last July, I listened with interest to the newly released podcast from Tortoise Media, Master: the allegations against Neil Gaiman. A friend h…| 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
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
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
Transcript: We quite clearly have a critical thinking problem these days. I mean, we’ve had a critical thinking problem for literally all of human history but as each year passes it becomes more an…| Skepchick
