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Trump is Destroying Our Oldest Science Agency

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.
Horny Men are Destroying Tech and “AI”

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.
RFK’s Autism Registry: What Could Go Wrong?

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.
SCOTUS to Destroy Separation of Church & State Over a Hamster Book

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.
Sex Predators

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.
Study: Conservatives Hate Science (All Of It)

3 weeks ago | skepchick.org | Rebecca Watson

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 decades not born yet. The researchers told the Associated Press that they hope this finding helps kick start their next project, determining the specific biomes in which bears shit.
We Think the CIA Killed JFK because of Satire and Homophobia

1 month 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:I first got involved in the “skeptical community” in the early 2000s, and at that time one of the biggest conspiracy theories that needed debunking was 9/11 truthers–people who were convinced that it wasn’t as simple as terrorists hijacking a few planes and crashing them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Sorry, Dire Wolves are So Not “Back”

1 month 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!I know the current political and economic situation is overwhelming right now and that’s why I always scour the science news for anything I can talk about that will actually brighten your day. And boy, do I have a fun one for this video! Just take a look at these adorable puppies, which are actually de-extincted dire wolves brought back to life thanks to genetic tweaking.
The Data that Says We’re Getting Stupider

1 month 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:Recently, I switched browsers, which was an annoying process and I’m not sure there’s really much benefit in terms of privacy or whatever, but there WAS one surprising benefit I got from it. On my old browser, I had a plugin that made Reddit more usable in a lot of little ways, but that plugin isn’t supported by my new browser.
23andMe Bankrupt! Should You Delete Your Genetic Data?

1 month 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:Waaaaay back in 2013, I went to a conference where I got a free 23andMe kit. I thought it was pretty cool that there was a tool that could tell me about my genes, giving me an idea of whether or not I have an increased risk of problems like breast cancer or Alzheimer’s, so I spit in the little tube and mailed it off.