Rebecca Watson
Rebecca leads a team of skeptical female activists at Skepchick.org and appears regularly on the Curiosity Aroused podcast, the weekly Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe podcast, and the Little Atoms radio show. She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it.
Don’t Burn Your Bra for Science Just Yet
April 17, 2013
There are many ways a science news story can hit the mainstream media and become a viral hit: does it involve an adorable, terrifying, or adorably terrifying new species of animal? Did a politician say something hilariously ignorant about it? And perhaps more importantly, does it involve breasts?
A Chat with Ron Lindsay about CSICon, Costume Contests, and Jerks
August 27, 2012
“One of the important contributions of CSICon is that we’re bringing the actual research to bear on the issues people are talking about.”
Xoçai. The “Healthy” Chocolate
Skepchick
August 24, 2012
Xoçai! Exotic, enticing, and unpronounceable to monolingual English tongues—the perfect name for an expensive chocolate product sold exclusively through multi-level marketing (MLM) using dodgy health claims.
YouTube and the Coming Angel Apocalypse
Skepchick
February 13, 2012
Today's topic: strange sounds coming from the sky, which have taken YouTube by storm. I'm going to explain some of them, but as soon as I do, someone will upload a new video using a new trick and someone else will have to start all over again to debunk it.
Review of Syfy’s Fact or Faked
Skepchick
January 31, 2012
According to its website, FoFPF (pronounced: "fawf-pfffff") "revolutionizes paranormal programming by investigating the evidence witnesses post on the Internet every day." Finally, someone is paying attention to "amateur paranormal researchers" who post fuzzy videos on YouTube!
The Daily Mail Gets It Right?
Skepchick
August 31, 2011
The Daily Mail published an article titled Mount Etna eruption closes airports and 'knocks clocks 15 minutes fast.' Nearly half those words are correct.
When “Big Pharma” Makes It Tough to be a Skeptic
Skepchick
February 25, 2011
But this is what it means to be a skeptic – doing your research and understanding that an industry can be suspect and immoral without necessarily being...
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