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Writer, science enthusiast, curious person. I like surfing and reading and playing video games. She/her

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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. skepchick.org/2025/04/study-…

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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." skepchick.org/2025/04/the-da…

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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 skepchick.org/2025/04/we-thi…

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A new study finds that conservatives distrust science! Not shocking, I know, but it also found that they even distrust science that ostensibly supports their worldview, and the researchers couldn't find a single intervention that helped. skepchick.org/2025/04/study-…

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Jerry Coyne is a New Atheist who recently wrote a screed suggesting trans people are sexual predators, based on obviously faulty data. Now he’s publishing an essay in a book edited by actual sexual predator Lawrence Krauss, about a “War on Science.” skepchick.org/2025/04/sex-pr…

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In Mahmoud v. Taylor, the Religious Right-controlled US Supreme Court finally has the chance to destroy separation of Church and State, ostensibly to protect religious children from a picture book about two hamsters getting married. skepchick.org/2025/04/scotus…

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RFK, Jr. thinks autistic people are a tragedy bc some will never pay taxes. If that’s his biggest issue, maybe he should create a registry of freeloading billionaires, instead. skepchick.org/2025/04/rfks-a…

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NOAA is America’s oldest scientific agency. They help farms produce food, keep ships from sinking, warn people about natural disasters, and collect and analyze the data we need to understand global warming. This month, Republicans are throwing it all away. skepchick.org/2025/05/trump-…

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Adam Conover got famous for promoting critical thinking in his show “Adam Ruins Everything.” Now he’s getting paid to promote an orb that scans your eyeball in exchange for crypto currency, which was trained on poor villagers in Africa. Yes, really. skepchick.org/2025/05/adam-c…

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White South African crybullies want you to think that equality is oppressing them. Here are the facts, to combat the blatant lies Trump is telling thanks to his bigoted apartheid-loving puppeteer, Elon Musk. skepchick.org/2025/05/debunk…

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Dan Price is best known for being the CEO who lowered his salary from $1.1 million to $70k while raising all his employees' salaries to match his own. But he SHOULD be best known for multiple women accusing him of rape, sexual assault, and abuse. skepchick.org/2025/06/best-b…

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Republicans say antisemitism is so bad right now that it's the basis for disappearing immigrants without due process. With that in mind, I'd like to talk about a few of the very prominent antisemites in & around the Trump admin. skepchick.org/2025/06/the-an…

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I've been talking about con artists for two decades, and this is one of the worst scams I've ever seen: fake immigration lawyers are taking advantage of immigrants who want to legally live in the US but are scared of being abducted by ICE thugs skepchick.org/2025/06/ice-is…

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I regret to inform you that the "Alt National Park Service" account is not actually run by insiders disseminating information to the resistance skepchick.org/2025/06/the-al…

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Did Trump steal the election? A recent lawsuit alleges irregularities in certain New York districts. Turns out that the allegation comes from a member of a 60yo antisemitic cult known for brainwashing members & attacking leftists with nunchucks patreon.com/posts/132359282

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A preprint suggests using ChatGPT makes you lazy, which leads me to pontificate on how our society views education while I listen to a 41min long song inspired by a book about the internet making us stupid, which I did not have the attention span to read. skepchick.org/2025/07/study-…

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I don't shy away from criticizing conspiracy theories that come from the left, which is why you know I'm serious when I say that the Epstein/Trump connection is absolutely NOT a conspiracy theory. It's just a rational conclusion skepchick.org/2025/07/the-tr…

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Here's how laws that "save the children" from the internet will exacerbate the surveillance state, violate privacy, and ultimately harm the children skepchick.org/2025/07/new-la…

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I finally made a video about “Russiagate” and how Tulsi Gabbard is exploiting conspiracy theorist thinking to trick people into calling for the arrest of Barack Obama. That’s a sentence I just wrote. 2025 truly is something isn’t it skepchick.org/2025/07/tulsi-…

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Remember that stupid NYT hit piece about Zohran Mamdani correctly identifying his racial makeup on a college application? The real story is that the Times got the story from a violently racist Nazi who hacked the personal data of thousands of people skepchick.org/2025/07/how-a-…