Rebecca Watson

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 few years, and/or that you are completely unable to travel anywhere! That's right, it's a total solar eclipse of the heart, and also of the sky, happening on Monday, April 8, 2024. Let's talk about it!

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

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 car to get to the vet, he couldn't navigate going down stairs and had to be carried.

I love being an American. I have so many freedoms that other humans do not: the freedom to criticize my government! The freedom to call myself an “American” in a YouTube video, knowing that it will…

A few weeks ago, I talked about a study that refuted a key part of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, and in the comments a lot of you recommended the podcast “If Books Could Kill,” which I di…

Good news and bad news, everyone: the good news is that anti-vaccine kook RFK, Jr. did NOT choose NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers as his running mate in his doomed presidential campaign. The bad news: people are still listening to what Aaron Rodgers has to say. The worse news: what Aaron Rodgers is saying is getting dumber, and also possibly even more dangerous.

As many of you know, I got my start in this business – the business of talking to you on YouTube – through psychics. When I was 17 I started working at a magic shop and that eventually led me to befriending James “The Amazing” Randi, an escape artist who offered a million dollar prize to anyone who could prove they have any kind of supernatural power. Randi came from a long history of magicians exposing people for using magic tricks but claiming to have special powers, like gurus and dowsers and perhaps most famously, psychics.

I know that this channel is focused primarily on correcting egregious misinformation in the public eye, but it brings me no satisfaction to address today's topic: turbo cancer. I've danced around it, addressing many similar anti-vaccine conspiracy theories that have cropped up in the years since the COVID vaccine first dropped, but I've stayed away from turbo cancer for one reason: no, not because it's real, but because it's an awesome name and I'm sad that antivaxxers took it. The first time I heard it, I knew I was in love: when I eventually get cancer, genetics and luck-willing, I don't want it to be “aggressive” or “stage 4.” No, I want it to be “turbo.” Because putting “turbo” in front of anything automatically makes it rad. It's the reason I chose a Mini Cooper S for my first car. Because it had a turbocharger that went “vroom vroom” when I wanted to impress hot chicks at stoplights. The only thing “turbo” couldn't make cooler is “Turbotax,” which is evil and should be banished from the planet. Or at least renamed to “Regular Tax.”

I have very serious, breaking news to report: US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has brainworms. Well, “had.” “Brainworm.” Singular. But I am NOT being sarcastic, for once: RFK, Jr. l…

Remember that episode in season 10 of The Simpsons, in which Lisa joins MENSA and the group ends up taking over as mayor of Springfield in order to improve the lives of the idiot residents, but it all goes horribly wrong when they wanted to ban sports and we all learned that actually maybe having the smartest people in charge of government wouldn't create the utopia we think it would?