My name is Simon Singh, I'm here at the European Skeptics Conference and I'm looking forward to the next big conference which is QED in Manchester.

I'm not sure what I'm going to be talking about but I won't be talking about alternative medicine. I won't be talking about

libel, libel, I'll either talk about cryptography or Fermael's last theorem or cosmology,

but it'll be nice to go back to a topic that's not libel reform or alternative medicine.

See you there. It is a

Thursday the 23rd of September 2010 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics with a K is a production of the Merseys Skeptics Society. science, the UK and internationally. I am your host Michael with me today is Marsh hello and

Colin. Hello so guys what you mean up to? Not a lot on my end afraid it's been

interested in other typical weekend in Merseys.

Your typical weekends in Merseys tend to involve all sorts of bizarre things that you don't

tell us about until halfway through your, oh it's been a typical weekend.

Then again I did see a giant pink rabbit who bought

like a mocker, I did want to ruin the case for the prosecution. Oh did you call? Right, that's not a good

anecdote or anything. Stanley weekend anything. We did have Evan Harris at Skeptics in the

pub. I heard I heard you did which was amazing in many respects and

appallingly painful in many other respects because

everything that could have gone wrong on that evening did go wrong.

Evan turned up late because of a crash on the M6 so he ended up he was stuck in motorway in the M6. So he ended up, he was stuck in the motorway in the M6.

So he says. You can't trust him. He's an atheist, you can't trust him. We've covered this.

You can't trust atheists. He's like a nazzing. The pulps said so. Don't think we're not coming to that.

And he was stuck on the road because the third world transit system we have.

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