Rebecca Watson
Writer at Skepchick
Writer, science enthusiast, curious person. I like surfing and reading and playing video games. She/her
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2 weeks ago |
skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca!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 want to drill down on one of those fields: ecology and conservation. I know that many people might be surprised to hear that, at first.
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2 weeks ago |
skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson
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 sexually harassed it. And the most unbelievable part of all of this is that he POSTED ABOUT IT ON HIS SUBSTACK. He admitted it. He made up a woman and sexually harassed her and wrote about it on the internet.
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2 weeks ago |
skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca!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 the current state of the anti-vaccine movement, you know that it’s inexorably tied up with autism nonsense.
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2 weeks ago |
skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca!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 their children based upon their deeply held religious beliefs, also known as “religious freedom” to them and “Christian supremacy” to the rest of us.
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3 weeks ago |
skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca!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 enjoyed the first one, The Republican War on Science, which was published twenty years ago and so is obviously due for an update.
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Most Americans believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK, despite historians saying Oswald acted alone. Today I wanna explain the weird origin of the idea that the CIA did it: an obvious work of satire and a homophobic prosecutor's wild goose chase https://t.co/bXKhEbNqBy
Recent data suggests that the world really did (start to) end in 2012. But instead of an asteroid or a super-volcano, it's a slower process that I'd like to call "The Stupiding." https://t.co/DDcQ7v212c
Wondering if it's worth it to go protest our fascist overlords? A new study shows CAUSAL evidence that Black Lives Matter protestors pushed Republicans and Independents (especially rural, poor, white voters) to get out and vote for Joe Biden in 2020. https://t.co/doXnEtf9Nm