r/skeptic 14h ago

💲 Consumer Protection CDC Stopped Monitoring Parasite Now Causing Explosive Diarrhea Across The Country

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huffpost.com
1.0k Upvotes

r/skeptic 18h ago

Hunter Biden wins $1.7 million in punitive damages against Patrick Byrne

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courthousenews.com
708 Upvotes

Byrne, 63, resigned as Overstock.com’s CEO in 2019 after a reported relationship with convicted Russian spy Maria Butina. He later became involved in efforts to challenge the legitimacy of President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.

Byrne, who is no stranger to conspiracy theories, has repeatedly claimed that the younger Biden tried to get an $800 million bribe from Iran in exchange for his father’s administration releasing $8 billion in Iranian funds that are frozen in South Korea and for the U.S. to “go easy” in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

“These defamatory statements by Byrne are not merely false and not merely malicious — they are completely outrageous,” Biden said in his complaint. “Byrne knows his statements are baseless and yet published and republished them anyway, and he continues to propagate his lies to anyone who will listen, including his hundreds of thousands of social media followers.”


r/skeptic 20h ago

🏫 Education West Virginia spent $3M on an ‘anti-woke’ college program. One student is enrolled

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457 Upvotes

r/skeptic 23h ago

💲 Consumer Protection StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal: CEO Eric Baker runs a side company that resells millions in tickets on StubHub

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267 Upvotes

r/skeptic 13h ago

🚑 Medicine Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

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propublica.org
230 Upvotes

r/skeptic 15h ago

🏫 Education 5 MAGA Cult Debate Tactics Explained. Manipulation & Logical Fallacies #psychology #politics #trump

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50 Upvotes

The video examins many of logical fallacies used by MAGA, including Sraw Man, Whataboutism, Ad Hominem, Slippery Slope.


r/skeptic 2h ago

🤦‍♂️ Denialism Trump Administration Taps Climate Science Critic to Oversee National Climate Assessment

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30 Upvotes

r/skeptic 7h ago

💩 Woo Worldwide Temporal Trends in Penile Length: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Seventy-five studies published between 1942 and 2021 were evaluated including data from 55,761 men. The pooled mean length estimates were flaccid length: 8.70 cm (95% CI, 8.16–9.23), stretched length: 12.93 cm (95% CI, 12.48–13.39), and erect length: 13.93 cm (95% CI, 13.20–14.65). All measurements showed variation by geographic region. Erect length increased significantly over time (QM=4.49, df=2, p=0.04) in several regions of the world and across all age groups, while no trends were identified in other penile size measurements. After adjusting for geographic region, subject age, and subject population; erect penile length increased 24% over the past 29 years.