Skepchick
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Skepchick was founded by Rebecca Watson in 2005 to discuss science and skepticism from a woman's perspective. Over the years, it's grown to be a home to dozens of writers who tackle those issues as well as progressive politics, feminism, and social justice.
Skepchick
1w ago
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Last year, I thought my best friend was dying. My dog Indy suddenly got clumsy, tripping over his own feet, having trouble jumping up on the sofa, and even as we were rushing to the ..read more
Skepchick
1w ago
Well, Richard Dawkins is in the news once again, and not for one of the normal fun reasons, like when he tweeted about dogs 69ing. No, he’s in the news because he went on tv and announced that he’s a “cultural Christian,” and that has for several reasons shocked people. For instance, this shocked some ..read more
Skepchick
2w ago
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Monday, Monday Monday! It’s the event of a lifetime, assuming you live in a specific band of North and Central America, you were born in the past few years and will die in the next ..read more
Skepchick
3w ago
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! I’ll be honest, everyone, I’ve really struggled with how to introduce today’s topic. I like to open these videos with a good framing for what I’m about to talk about, to give you some context ..read more
Skepchick
3w ago
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Way back in 2022 when leaks revealed that the Supreme Court was going to overturn Roe v. Wade, I said that they may try “to send us back to 1972, but the fact of the ..read more
Skepchick
3w ago
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Conspiracy theorists and mass casualty events: name a more iconic duo. I’ll wait. Just kidding I won’t wait, I’m just going to keep talking. First, let’s talk about what we know happened: in the early ..read more
Skepchick
1M ago
The other day I received this email from the social network Mastodon, indicating that they had removed one of my posts I made back in December, which read “you may think Christmas Vacation aged poorly bc people today won’t understand the Boomer assumption that a Christmas bonus will cover the down payment on a pool ..read more
Skepchick
1M ago
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! We can all agree that sure, sex is great, but have you ever tried NOT having sex as a nonviolent means of activating social change? No? Me, neither, but many people have throughout human history ..read more
Skepchick
1M ago
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Hey guys, a hot new conspiracy theory just dropped: Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, got a Brazilian Butt Lift for Christmas but it went terribly wrong, and her butt exploded, and that’s why no one ..read more
Skepchick
1M ago
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Big ol’ content warning before I start today, friends: I’m going to be talking about atrocities, including murder and sexual assault and war and genocide and, I mean, just name a terrible thing. I’m probably ..read more