Notices by Rebecca Watson (rebeccawatson@mstdn.social), page 8

me: “which of the pickwick triplets did it” is the song of 2023
my spouse:
me: wait what year is it
him: 2023
me: nailed it

Stop making fun of the "dystopian" concept of liquid trees! That glowing green slime is actually super fucking cool science and I'm tired of the kneejerk cynicism. https://skepchick.org/2023/10/the-liquid-tree-is-very-cool-actually/

Announcement: I have successfully been injected with nobel prize winning biotechnology to hulk out my immune system and maintain my perfect novid record

Today's video is all about why you shouldn't panic at the WHO classifying aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic" but you SHOULD be concerned by the number of medical professionals being paid by junk food companies to push unhealthy shit https://skepchick.org/2023/09/aspartame-is-safe-tiktok-dietitians-arent/

as an atheist introvert I wonder how long it would take me to notice that the rapture happened

An update to my previous story of two "honesty" researchers whose studies used fraudulent data: one of them has a new TV show on NBC & the other one is suing the data analysts who caught her.
https://skepchick.org/2023/09/one-disgraced-scientist-gets-an-nbc-show-another-becomes-a-libel-bully/

it’s absolutely incredible that white men got into the cannabis business and just completely failed all to shit. Eaze sent me a discount code so ok, let’s try it. Oh, sorry, the service that delivers weed to you is closed at 9pm on a Thursday. Yeah cool I’ll hit you up at 9am lol

Good morning, a third of Americans think vaccines can give dogs autism and I don't want to live here anymore https://skepchick.org/2023/09/do-most-americans-fear-vaccines-for-dogs/

Today's video is a real rollercoaster...I started out researching what I assumed was a standard scammy supplement company, but I ended up learning that it was WAY worse than that https://skepchick.org/2023/08/the-completely-bonkers-story-behind-this-scammy-supplement/

Cyclist friends: I've always felt that the way to build endurance on the bike is to ride your bike everywhere, but now I live in THE HILLS. would I see faster progress by taking days off, including not doing squats etc on my off days? Or, god forbid, do I drive my bike to somewhere flat every other day? ty

Hey pals, I finally found my login for this account! Ha ha...I also have mastodon.social/@rebeccawatson and am wondering, should I stay here at mstdn.social or post on main? IDK where things are these days. Is there a way to redirect people from there to here?

Ron DeSantis hired one of "America's Frontline Doctors" to be his surgeon general, who went on to fraudulently edit a study to make it look as though it found COVID vaccines increased a person's risk of cardiac-based mortality
https://skepchick.org/2023/04/desantiss-anti-vaxx-surgeon-general-commits-scientific-fraud/

I know the last time I gave obvious flirting advice it ended with Richard Dawkins burning the New Atheist movement to the ground but I can’t help it, I gotta let y’all know: if you have a love letter for a female creator you like, don’t send it. it’s so fucking creepy pls stop

i will probably delete this tomorrow bc just by posting it, it increases the chance this dude will find and kill me but yeah this happens often and every time I forward it to my husband so that when I’m murdered the cops have a good idea who did it.

I’ll delete this too but almost every prominent man I thought was my friend or who I thought was rational back during “elevator gate” turned out to be a fucking moron. “it WAS pretty annoying that you laughingly suggested guys not act like fucking weird rapists.” yeah wow sorry.

it fucking sucked to wonder every day if some guy was going to murder me and then have to do my podcast Skeptics Guide to the Universe with die -hard conservative libertarians who lectured me about how I was being too mean to the men who write in calling me a feminazi

The worst was when ppl I had championed, and who I insisted conferences hire, like George Hrab, turned out to support the misogynists. Either he believed it or they just paid better, but he’snot alone.

I hate Ted Lasso. The wholesome plot points are obvious, Nate’s heel turn from last season was cringe and
disrespectful to the character, they killed a dog in season 2 with no payoff; but it’s still a fun watch at times & several actors in it are great. That’s all.

absolutely furious that the woke publishing industry is going back and editing old dilbert cartoons to include punchlines and skilled artwork

A new Cochrane report found no evidence that masking stops the spread of viruses, despite tons of studies that show unequivocal benefit. Why? 1/4
https://skepchick.org/2023/02/revisiting-the-science-do-masks-stop-covid-19/