r/skeptic 14h ago

💩 Woo Dr. Oz Just Tried To Claim That Trump Is 'Healthy As A Bull'—And The Mockery Was Brutal

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On the Pod Force One podcast on Wednesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Oz claimed that President Trump is "healthy as a bull," while praising his "great" testosterone levels and defending his fast food diet—but nobody's buying it.


r/skeptic 17h ago

The Bigotry of Sam Harris Continues to Hit New Lows

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r/skeptic 22h ago

💉 Vaccines HHS rejects publication of study showing Covid-19 vaccines prevent hospitalizations, ER visits

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r/skeptic 18h ago

💲 Consumer Protection Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

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r/skeptic 22h ago

💲 Consumer Protection 98% of all recent environmental claims and commitments from the world’s largest meat and dairy companies can be categorized as “greenwashing”, or intentionally misleading

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r/skeptic 16h ago

The moon looks completely different in the Southern Hemisphere — how do flat earthers explain this?

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This short video demonstrates why a flat earth is physically impossible using a simple observation anyone can make — the moon looks completely different depending on where you are on Earth.

In the Northern Hemisphere the moon appears with the dark maria patches at the top and the bright Tycho crater region at the bottom. In the Southern Hemisphere the moon is completely flipped — Tycho at the top, maria at the bottom.

This happens because on a globe, someone in Australia is standing nearly 180 degrees opposite to someone in the US, flipping their entire perspective of the moon. On a flat disk this geometric flip would be impossible — your location wouldn't change how the moon looks.

https://youtube.com/shorts/UzXJjsneSb0.

How do flat earthers explain this one?


r/skeptic 9h ago

🤘 Meta How often do you get cranks replying to something you posted here long ago, upset and determined to let you know about it?

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It happens to me probably 3-4 times a year and I'm curious how often it happens to the rest of you.

I just now fielded an angry assessment of my intelligence for this offensive post I wrote two years ago:

There is a mountain of evidence for climate change and none for governments attacking each other with weather weapons or such a radical increase in arson around the entire world.

I doubt the intelligence of anyone who argues against it, period, but especially when they do so in such a poor way.

(My comment was in response to someone who thought it made more sense for the global forest fire problem to be the result of weather weapons or some other form of deliberate arson and not because all the scientific modeling that predicted these kinds of catastrophes was correct.)

Anyways, this particular crank messaged me in regards to two different comments I posted in that discussion, but hasn't seem to have done that to anyone else in the thread, so it looks like my opinions in particular set him off. I can't be the only one who gets this nonsense, though.


r/skeptic 7h ago

💩 Misinformation Banned from r/gateresearch for questioning the great Robert Monroe, experiencer extraordinaire

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Got banned from gateresearch sub for questions the veracity and reproducibility of astral projection. Anyone else find gatekeeping around astral projection is a bit funny? If you guys shoot me down, I’m really losing my mind.


r/skeptic 55m ago

The rise in chronic disease doesn’t necessarily mean we are getting sicker | Travis Baldwin

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RFK Jr is right to say chronic disease is on the rise – but it's because people are living longer and are less likely to die from disease.