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


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…



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-…

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…







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-…



