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A column by Skepchick.org's Rebecca Watson

Xoçai. The “Healthy” Chocolate

Xoçai. The “Healthy” Chocolate

by Rebecca Watson
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

YouTube and the Coming Angel Apocalypse

by Rebecca Watson
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

Review of Syfy’s Fact or Faked

by Rebecca Watson
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?

The Daily Mail Gets It Right?

by Rebecca Watson
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

When “Big Pharma” Makes It Tough to be a Skeptic

by Rebecca Watson
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...