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Skeptics with a K

Episode #036

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2010

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Extended bumper episode! This episode of Skeptics with a K was streamed live over the Internet on Monday 13 December 2010. Featuring cold fusion, Toys “R” Us, hassidic diets, the Emo Buzz Lightyear, urine injections and the heaviest man in the world.

This episode was sponsored by the QED conference; for more information visit www.qedcon.org.

Mike’s mysterious tweet can be found at: http://bit.ly/eh0z8G

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is Monday the 13th of December 2010 and you're listening to Skeptics with

0:16.4

a K, the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics with K is a production

0:21.0

of the Merseys Skeptics Society, a non-profit organization

0:24.2

dedicated to the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys, around the UK and internationally.

0:29.0

I am your host, my call with me today is Marsh.

0:31.6

Hello. And Colin. Hello. And this is our live

0:35.2

episode which is very peculiar. We've got a Twitter wall over there we've got a

0:39.3

Twitter wall over there. You're saying over there and over there these are still

0:42.4

listeners. There are very few people watching us right now

0:44.4

but by the point listeners yeah so we can see people sort of responding and talking to us on Twitter

0:49.5

if you're listening to the show live that was a tweet from Dr T there who said that the latest

0:56.2

WikiLeaks claimed that Palladium isn't actually an element. So ahead of the curve

1:01.0

there Marsh. We're already getting into the Palladium abuse. I'll have it from here on in. I'm not getting more

1:05.8

Palladium abuse. That's not happening. Get on with the show, Mike. There are people listening.

1:09.1

I did look that up on recently, our Palladium show, the show where you made the Palladium

1:15.2

Gaff was a bad episode 14 the Palladium gag gag it was not gag it was a good

1:20.1

gag it was my defense the gag would have worked with or without the word

1:24.3

fictional is the issue. It was funnier with fictional. It would have been funny had

1:28.0

it been fictional. But that was episode 14-15 around this. That's over half the show ago and you're

1:34.0

still getting sick for it's a millstone it's an albatross that I shall never shake off

1:38.9

whereas my gaff saying that fillings aren't elemental mercury.

1:46.0

Nobody cares.

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