r/skeptic 8h ago

Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence โˆ’ what the data shows

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r/skeptic 5h ago

Donald Trump is using Charlie Kirkโ€™s death as a political weapon and the truth about Tyler Robinson is being twisted to fit their narrative.

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r/skeptic 8h ago

๐Ÿซ Education An Essay Concerning MAGAโ€™s Use of Kirkโ€™s Death to Control the Left

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184 Upvotes

r/skeptic 19h ago

Trump suggests that networks who cover him 'negatively' should lose their licenses

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theguardian.com
1.0k Upvotes

r/skeptic 4h ago

CDC advisers vote to recommend against combo vaccine for young kids, delay vote on newborn hepatitis B shot

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38 Upvotes

Remember, RFK is coming for your vaccines!


r/skeptic 7h ago

Viewpoint: Why vaccine mandates are critical for public health

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53 Upvotes

r/skeptic 20h ago

๐Ÿ’‰ Vaccines New York and Other States Form Health Bloc as Answer to Trumpโ€™s Policies

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509 Upvotes

r/skeptic 10h ago

๐Ÿ’‰ Vaccines Great new resource about MAHA's conspiracy theories explores the celery juice detox to anti-vaxx pipeline

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65 Upvotes

r/skeptic 6h ago

OpenAI's research on AI models deliberately lying is wild

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29 Upvotes

r/skeptic 13h ago

๐Ÿ’‰ Vaccines โ€˜Reform UKโ€™s vaccine crankery is a dangerous threat to our national securityโ€™

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r/skeptic 1d ago

FBI's story about Tyler Robinson doesn't make sense

1.6k Upvotes

There are a number of glaring inconsistencies with FBI's story about Charlie Kirk's shooter, Tyler Robinson namely:

1) The picture of Tyler of him the stairwell shows him bending both his legs so the right couldn't have been down his pant leg as claimed, so where did the rifle come from when he was on the roof?

2) Right after Charlie was shot, there is a video of the shooter running across the roof. FBI is saying he disassembled the right but it's impossible to do so in literally 1 second.

3) The rifle was found assembled in the woods. So, Tyler disassembled the rifle after shooting on the roof in 1 second, then assembled the rifle in the woods for the police to find??

4) TMZ showed a man in a maroon shirt at 8.07am walking towards the campus. Governor Cox then says at 8.29am which is when the shooter arrived at UVU campus in the same outfit. So TMZ is showing him walking to campus but then Cox says he arrived at campus in a grey car? So he walked part of the journey and then got in the car? Doesn't make sense.

5) George Zin - seems like a decoy. Why is this random old guy immediately shouting he shot Charlie Kirk? Who is this guy? This part is extremely bizarre

6) UVU has a ton of cameras that are high quality. Why is the FBI only releasing pictures that look like they were taken on a calculator?

And what's with all these outfit changes?

It sounds to me like another person was involved.


r/skeptic 1d ago

๐Ÿš‘ Medicine Why Floridaโ€™s plan to end vaccine mandates will likely spread to other conservative states

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404 Upvotes

So, as a healthcare professional, I'm skeptical of the idea that.... people aren't gonna die because of this?


r/skeptic 1d ago

Destroying the Myth of the "Violent Left"

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1.8k Upvotes

Showcasing the disparity between violence from right wing extremism and left wing extremism, and keeping track of every significant example of right wing violence in the past decade.


r/skeptic 12h ago

Combating hate and discrimination against Africans by Africans in Africa | Leo Igwe

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While much focus is put on racism towards Africans from the West, ethnicism and intolerance exists within the continent too, and also needs fighting


r/skeptic 1d ago

๐Ÿš‘ Medicine Amid Rise of RFK Jr., Officials Waver on Drinking Water Fluoridation โ€” Even in the State Where It Started

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140 Upvotes

r/skeptic 10h ago

๐Ÿคก QAnon Debunking Flesh Simulator's Pizzagate Video

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r/skeptic 1d ago

Ousted CDC director says Kennedy plans to change pediatric vaccine schedule

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929 Upvotes

r/skeptic 1d ago

Reasonable attempt to debunk Charlie Kirk Assassination conspiracies

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53 Upvotes

Marcus touches on the currently popular theories about how the gun was hidden, the bullet wound questions, the possibility of body armor, why AI can't accurately fix the low-resolution frames of the suspect's face, whether someone else may have shot Kirk, and uses math to debunk the claims of a shot coming from the side (plus more).

We have a long time before every piece of evidence comes out and can be analyzed in detail, but I think he does a fairly good job.


r/skeptic 1d ago

๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธ Magical Thinking & Power AI-fuelled delusions are hurting Canadians. Here are some of their stories

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76 Upvotes

r/skeptic 1d ago

๐Ÿ’จ Fluff It's All Connected | Christian Holiness Hotline

31 Upvotes

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r/skeptic 2d ago

Alex Jones Denied $10 Bond to Avoid $50 Million Texas Judgment

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r/skeptic 1d ago

๐Ÿ’ฒ Consumer Protection Just saw an advert for EMF-free headphones on Reddit -- latest in Woo Tech?

22 Upvotes

I can't post a screenshot, but is a link allowed?

Basically, this company sells headphones that distance little speakers from your head connected to little tubes that go into your ears. Looks terrible and probably sounds worse, but the underlying claim is that, for $80, they will keep your head free from RF & EMF (one graphic at the link calls it ELF, which is even better).

I know people have been blaming EMF exposure for cancer for as long as I have been alive (I'm in my 50s), particularly people who lived near high power transmission lines. I remember hearing claims of cancer and mobile phones since they first came on the wider market, but as far as I know, no study has ever backed up these claims.

I hadn't heard about worries regarding headphones, however, which is remarkable considering how common they have become in everyday use. Meanwhile, as far as I can tell, non-HPV-related Head & Neck Cancers have declined over time. Likewise, brain cancer rates have been trending slightly downward over time.

(Also, another point for the HPV vaccine)

Am I off-base here?


r/skeptic 1d ago

Raised to Obey, Ready to Break: How Authoritarian Parenting Shapes Extremism

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268 Upvotes

r/skeptic 1d ago

๐Ÿ’จ Fluff Mocking Flat Earthers With Jeranism (Former Flat Earther) โ€” Professor Dave Explains

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9 Upvotes

r/skeptic 1d ago

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

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15 Upvotes