Episode #129
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2014
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Statins, funding homeopathy, placebo effects, and the Ice Bucket Challenge. Plus badger, bat, colon, albatross, and anaphylactic lung. Scheduled bi-monthly (ish) it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 28th of August 2014 and you are listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:16.7 | the Kay, the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with |
| 0:20.5 | Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society a non-profit |
| 0:24.0 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and |
| 0:28.3 | internationally. |
| 0:29.3 | I am your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello? And it's Alice. So my boiler is broken. It is broken. I can feel how broken the boiler is. It's slightly |
| 0:38.2 | chilly in here. It's increasing. Even it's August. I know which is I don't know why we don't make the shittest August in living memory |
| 0:45.5 | of where it's drab and gray and wet outside and it's it's fucking tell me heating broken in |
| 0:50.7 | August ah who cares you normally said that's the best month |
| 0:54.0 | you'd be heating broken. |
| 0:55.0 | You'd think, but no, I'm sitting here fucking chilly |
| 0:58.0 | and I wanted to put the heating on today and couldn't. |
| 1:01.0 | The boiler is broken. |
| 1:02.0 | The heating in my house went on. |
| 1:04.4 | I mean I didn't put it on, but it went on. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm happy that it was on. I'm fine with it being on. |
| 1:10.1 | I did have a rule, no heating until at least the end of September. |
| 1:12.2 | That rule has been broken already. Yeah, I tend to have a rule no heating until at least the end of September that rules been broken already. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah, I tend to have a rule kind of like the heating goes off kind of like mid to late March. |
| 1:19.4 | Hmm. And then it's off until October 1st. |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, like a school rule. |
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