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r/skeptic

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A sub for "scientific skepticism." Scientific Skepticism is about combining knowledge of science, philosophy, and critical thinking with careful analysis to help identify flawed reasoning and deception.

Notice: This subreddit is not actively monitored, so the posts here are only a small subset of what exists on reddit.

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to r/skeptic by MichaelDeSanta13
1 month ago
Is there any truth and evidence behind the claim that MAGA/end of democracy is RU psy op?
❓ Help
to r/skeptic by workerbotsuperhero
1 month ago
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RFK Jr. is now an extinction-level threat to federal public health programs and science-based health policy
🚑 Medicine
to r/skeptic by Mynameis__--__
1 month ago
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Trump Won With Misinformed, Naive, Low-Info Voters
🧙‍♂️ Magical Thinking & Power
to r/skeptic by The_manintheshed
2 months ago
Blackseed Oil: Is It Nonsense or Is there Merit?
❓ Help
to r/skeptic by paxinfernum
3 months ago
JK Rowling misgenders two Olympic athletes and spreads baseless rumors that they are trans.
to r/skeptic by paxinfernum
3 months ago
When reddit banned over 2,000 hate subreddits, 15.6% of the affected users left Reddit and that those who remained reduced their toxicity by 6.6% on average. The ban also caused 5% users to increase their toxicity by more than 70% of their pre-ban level.
to r/skeptic by paxinfernum
3 months ago
An Australian Study found that 1 in 6 men admitted to being attracted to children. Let's examine that conclusion.
in Australia
to r/skeptic by Visible-Draft8322
4 months ago
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The Insulin ‘Evidence’ in the Lucy Letby Trial. Criminal Justice in England: Disagreeable Facts
to r/skeptic by Visible-Draft8322
4 months ago
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Trans Youth Suicides Covered Up By NHS, Cass After Restrictions, Say Whistleblowers
🚑 Medicine
to r/skeptic by No_Philosopher_9826
8 months ago
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This is an interesting and informative video about the spread of spiritual psychosis on TikTok. It’s a real problem and I think TikTok should be doing more to stop this nonsense.
🧙‍♂️ Magical Thinking & Power
to r/skeptic by American-Dreaming
6 months ago
LGBT Social Contagion: A Failed Hypothesis
⚖ Ideological Bias
to r/skeptic by noobvin
6 months ago
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Just to get ahead of the game on this.
💨 Fluff
to r/skeptic by Mission_Bowl3938
11 months ago
Willing to entertain the notion that I might be wrong about reiki being silly
🏫 Education
to r/skeptic by burtzev
10 months ago
Scientists assert 'alien mummies' in Peru are really dolls made from Earthly bones
in Peru
to r/skeptic by paxinfernum
10 months ago
A quarter of Americans believe FBI instigated Jan. 6, Post-UMD poll finds
to r/skeptic by blankblank
4 months ago
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Sopranos star Drea de Matteo claims she ended up on OnlyFans because she wouldn't get vaxxed
💉 Vaccines
in Delaware
to r/skeptic by Secure-Impression274
1 year ago
Anyone else find the UAP/UFO hype stupid?
👾 Invaded
to r/skeptic by rideme4now
1 year ago
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The no income tax philosophy
❓ Help
to r/skeptic by Flimsy-Hedgehog-3520
1 year ago
Any recommended evidence-based magazines?
to r/skeptic by BurtonDesque
1 year ago
Televangelist Jim Bakker asserts that "this global warming business is anti-God" and claims that God told him that "a lot of people are not going to accept the signs of the Second Coming [and] that the Rapture is near because they're gonna call it global warming problems."
in And
to r/skeptic by Lighting
9 months ago
Texas just released their new maternal mortality rate data (after delaying it until after the election). A skeptic's review. It's bad, not just because it's shockingly high. It's also bad because they are fudging the numbers lower with an "enhanced method" used nowhere else in the world.
🏫 Education
in High, TX
to r/skeptic by rideme4now
1 year ago
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Media Bias
to r/skeptic by FarrandChimney
1 year ago
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Long before QAnon, Ronald Reagan and the GOP purged John Birch extremists from the party
📚 History
to r/skeptic by Wynterspring
3 months ago
Debunking the newer Armoured Skeptic content
📚 History
to r/skeptic by xenneract
9 months ago
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Congress Is About to Send the Pentagon on a Wild Flying Saucer Chase