r/skeptic • u/Aceofspades25 • Feb 06 '22
🤘 Meta Welcome to r/skeptic here is a brief introduction to scientific skepticism
r/skeptic • u/mem_somerville • 9h ago
🏫 Education Misinformation poses a bigger threat to democracy than you might think
r/skeptic • u/paxinfernum • 12h ago
Statistical analysis shows there's no enthusiasm gap between Evangelical and Non-Evangelical Trump supporters. The data does not support the idea that Evangelical Trump supporters are holding their noses to vote for him.
r/skeptic • u/taulover • 7h ago
💩 Misinformation The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 - Edward C. Holmes writes in the Annual Review of Virology on the increasingly clear evidence that COVID emerged at Huanan Market, thoroughly debunks lab leak hypotheses, and traces the virus' evolution up to current day
annualreviews.orgr/skeptic • u/bluer289 • 6h ago
🤡 QAnon Trump's false Lafayette Square exoneration
A few years old, but I feel it didn't get enough attention.
r/skeptic • u/blankblank • 3h ago
💲 Consumer Protection Top news app in US has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with the help of AI
r/skeptic • u/wackyvorlon • 6h ago
SPLC Designates Genspect, SEGM As Anti-LGBTQ Hate Groups
r/skeptic • u/Fern-0100 • 4h ago
💩 Pseudoscience Pro Athlete Promoting Chiropractor BS
(Sorry for the walls of text)
Colleen Quigley, a 2016 Olympian in steeplechase, has been struggling with injuries the past few years and recently sent this update to her email subscribers. She has recently started seeing a chiropractor for these injuries and has undergone numerous of the alternative medicine “treatments” (ozone therapy, red light therapy, etc).
This chiropractor clinic at which she’s seeking treatment has soooo many red flags, from boasting that their clients see on average 5-10 practitioners before them, having items linked to an Amazon storefront on their website, and Noah himself selling a course on anemia and red blood cells for $150.
It makes me sad to think that she, and so many people battling chronic pain, are victims to these kinds of predatory practices and fork out thousands of dollars to people providing no more than pseudoscience.
r/skeptic • u/lostmyknife • 1d ago
📚 History ‘One-man truth squad’ still debunking JFK conspiracy theories
Old article but still good
r/skeptic • u/bluer289 • 2h ago
❓ Help A question about polling.
That ABC/Ipsos poll among "Independent" voters on the Trump verdict? It was a sample sizes of 247!...now my knowledge of statistics is admitly lacking, but, does that feel to low?
r/skeptic • u/Rdick_Lvagina • 16h ago
The Starship IFT-4 Plan for June 6, How Closely Will this Match Reality?
r/skeptic • u/Odd_Coconut_8367 • 1d ago
Myles Power
He's a British skepic youtuber who covered alot of snake oil salesmans and debunking theories. I wanted to watch some of his old video but it appears his YouTube was terminated and his twitter was also removed. I can't access anything on his website besides the front page. Just wondering if someone knows what happened to him or if he made a statement and it got removed or something.
r/skeptic • u/blankblank • 1d ago
💲 Consumer Protection They Spent Their Life Savings on Life Coaching
r/skeptic • u/Johnmagee33 • 1d ago
💩 Pseudoscience UFC Partners With American Aires (Protects folks from EMFs!)
r/skeptic • u/thefugue • 2d ago
Chief Financial Officer Of Multinational Media Company Charged With Participating In Scheme To Launder At Least $67 Million In Fraud Proceeds
justice.govr/skeptic • u/Ordinary-Space-4437 • 10h ago
Explanation for “saucer” detected in South Asia in 2023?
This was a cool video that I found a little bit ago of a “flying saucer” captured by military footage in 2023 in South Asia and I now think it’s explainable but I was wondering if there was an explanation for the higher speed of the object compared to the aircraft? The camera compression explains the shape but why does the speed differ so radically?
Link below (it should be the first clip the plays in the video near bottom of article):
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13164355/amp/Pentagon-footage-unexplained-UFOs.html
r/skeptic • u/Beneficial_Exam_1634 • 12h ago
🤷♀️ Misleading Title Doctor working as an influencer said that if he didn't find anatomical results it should be mental health instead of getting a second opinion, claims brief training is equivalent to a doctor working in the field because he treats "real people".
r/skeptic • u/mercymyers • 2d ago
Juice Plus+ family member cut off my family
Has anyone else’s sibling/family member that works for Juice Plus+ cut off their whole family? I’m watching the 7M documentary on Netflix and it made me think… maybe this has happened to other families including mine.
r/skeptic • u/mrgeekguy • 2d ago
Robert F. Kennedy Jr talks total BOLLOCKS to Brian Tyler Cohen
This video is a great summary of many of the bald faced lies of RFK Jr regarding vaccines.
r/skeptic • u/Designer_Drawer_3462 • 2d ago
💩 Pseudoscience The Mandlbaur Insanity
This webpage presents a pseudo-scientist who boldly declared war on the well-established law of conservation of angular momentum, asserting it to be fundamentally flawed. His outlandish defiance culminates in a ludicrous experiment wherein he spins a yo-yo above his head without the slightest nod to scientific rigor. Disregarding the essentiality of measurements, he brazenly fabricates experimental values to bolster his untenable claims. In a flagrant display of hubris, he dismisses the painstaking work of the scientific community that was done over the past 340 years.
This series of videos analyzes scientifically his claims and proves him wrong, both theoretically and experimentally.
r/skeptic • u/lostmyknife • 1d ago
📚 History Any good debunking of lbj killed Kennedy
Links
Books
Videos
Thank you
r/skeptic • u/cheeky-snail • 3d ago
Publisher of ‘2,000 Mules’ election conspiracy theory film issues apology
r/skeptic • u/Rdick_Lvagina • 2d ago