!skeptic
@sh.itjust.workshttps://plus.thebulwark.com/p/tucker-ben-shapiro-obama-crack-gay-claims
A convicted fraudster’s uncorroborated, 24-year-old tale about gay Obama smoking crack is promoted by the right’s biggest media stars.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-randomized-trial-shows-trans
For the first time, a randomized controlled trial has been completed on gender affirming care and the results are stunning: 55% of those on care saw reduction of suicidality vs 5% of control.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/dog-autism-37-of-us-dog-owners-buy-into-anti-vaccine-nonsense/
For the bazillionth time, vaccines do not cause autism—and dog autism is not a thing.
https://time.com/6290193/covid-lab-leak-ralph-baric/
Ralph Baric could help save humanity from the next pandemic—if his enemies don’t get him first.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/21/facebook-posts/hell-of-a-school-day-photos-dont-show-kids-in-a-sa/
Photos of children participating in satanic rituals at schools are circulating on social media. But don’t let certain de
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/20/instagram-posts/no-these-decade-old-plus-videos-dont-expose-planne/
For more than a decade, the anti-abortion group Live Action has attacked Planned Parenthood, saying the reproductive hea
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-climate-conspiracy-theory-claims-traffic-control-is-an-attack-on-freedom/
A concept for reducing car traffic in European cities, called the “15-minute city,” is being falsely described by far-right opponents of the idea as a communist-style lockdown on personal freedoms
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/avi-loeb-interstellar-object-aliens-b2369534.html
A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth
https://djgrothe.substack.com/p/uri-geller-is-not-a-magician
The New York Times continues Geller's reputation rehabilitation tour, surreally romanticizing his decades of harmful deceptions
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-effects-of-vitamin-d-supplementation-on-major-cardiac-events/
A large randomized controlled trial of vitamin D supplementation generates good data to show there is likely no benefit.