Notices by rebeccawatson (rebeccawatson@mstdn.social)

the duality of cat

In the latest Last Week Tonight John Oliver dropped this incredible line that deserves preservation: “(Alan Dershowitz is) a man so closely tied to Jeffrey Epstein, you might mistake him for a noose.”

wdym "a break with tradition"? which journalists did Grover Cleveland invite to his blood-soaked championship grift on the White House lawn?

Rare Saturday morning cartoon...I mean YT video! For years now people have wondered if corporations are secretly spying on their conversations using their phone mics. Recently, some companies claimed to have that ability. Turns out, they were SCAMMING other companies! https://skepchick.org/2026/05/is-your-phone-spying-on-your-conversations-no/

People are burning down Ebola treatment centers set up to stop the spread of the deadly disease. Is it bc they're "low IQ" as anti-quarantine Redditors say, or is it bc Elon Musk destroyed USAID, which provided monitoring & on-the-ground support to help the community?🤔 https://skepchick.org/2026/05/elon-musk-made-ebola-worse/

You only have a few days left to tell the FCC that they should stop trying to force broadcasters to classify trans and nonbinary people as inappropriate for children to see on TV https://skepchick.org/2026/05/the-fcc-wants-to-rate-lgbtq-as-obscene/

Trump's FDA is censoring research that finds COVID and shingles vaccines are safe, but they can't hide the science that shows vaccines may be even better for us than we thought when it comes to preventing diseases they aren't even made to fight
https://skepchick.org/2026/05/trump-fails-to-censor-all-the-science-on-vaccines/

Let's talk about hantavirus: why it's scary, but also why it's not the next "COVID." https://skepchick.org/2026/05/hantavirus-is-not-the-next-pandemic/

Many of you asked that I react to Richard Dawkins announcing that he fell for a chatbot. Instead of just pointing and laughing (my initial reaction obv) I dug into the “why” of it all: his obfuscations, insecurities, and utter sadness https://skepchick.org/2026/05/richard-dawkins-claude-delusion/

Many of you asked that I react to Richard Dawkins announcing that he fell for a chatbot. Instead of just pointing and laughing (my initial reaction obv) I dug into the “why” of it all: his obfuscations, insecurities, and utter sadness https://skepchick.org/2026/05/richard-dawkins-claude-delusion/

I've spent years warning that the COVID "Lab Leak" idea had moved from "valid hypothesis" to "dangerous conspiracy theory." Last week, the Trump administration violently arrested a retired 78-year old scientist bc of his refusal to lie about COVID's natural origins https://skepchick.org/2026/05/trump-just-arrested-a-scientist-over-the-lab-leak/

Automatic license plate readers may seem like a good idea until you hear about the ways they enable cops to abuse women, all while not actually making you any safer https://skepchick.org/2025/11/the-police-state-gets-flocked/

Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault https://skepchick.org/2025/11/so-im-in-the-epstein-files/

Graham Platner is running for US Senate as a progressive Democrat. He also had a Nazi tattoo for 18 years. Is he a Nazi? Is he a government plant? Or is he just a shady, lying little PR disaster who will only damage the Palestinian cause? https://skepchick.org/2025/11/graham-platner-is-an-embarrassing-liar/

Texas has approved a new, more Bible-focused curriculum that will have 5-year olds learning the story of Genesis in which God makes the universe in six days and doesn't know the difference between a fish and a vegetable https://skepchick.org/2025/10/texas-is-teaching-the-bible-to-kindergarteners/

Thinking about Jane Goodall, and how her legacy is inextricably tied up with the legacy of colonialism. Also: Bigfoot. https://skepchick.org/2025/10/jane-goodall-and-the-legacy-of-colonialism/

As a “New Atheist” of the early 2000s, I knew it was crucial to stop the Religious Right from destroying the wall separating Church & State. But even I didn’t think that by 2025 the President would green light sending ppl to Guantanamo for being “anti-Christian.” https://skepchick.org/2025/10/trump-declares-atheists-are-terrorists/

It's understandable if you missed or forgot when, two weeks ago, an American public university fired three people for telling students that LGBTQ+ people exist. I think it's worth keeping it on our radar because it's extremely fucked up https://skepchick.org/2025/09/fired-for-mentioning-lgbtq-people-exist/

Are you wondering why RFK decided to blame Tylenol for causing autism? It wasn’t as random as it may seem! https://skepchick.org/2025/09/the-lack-of-science-behind-tylenol-autism/

Charlie Kirk was a Nazi and no one should be expected to engage in performative mourning over his murder. https://skepchick.org/2025/09/charlie-kirk-and-the-empathy-paradox/