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Skeptics with a K

Episode #158

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2015

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, migrant bees, surgical instruments, and sleep paralysis. Plus Alzheimer’s, pesticides, Doctor Who, and genetic engineering. Who would fabricate news stories just to get clicks? Certainly not Skeptics with a K.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is a

0:17.8

It is Thursday the 8th of October 2015 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking

0:20.4

Skeptics with the K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit

0:24.5

organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and

0:28.8

internationally. I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh. and Alice so Marsh you're married yes it didn't go

0:36.0

disaster to see wrong did it not I don't know I assume we're recording this two minutes after

0:40.0

you finished recording the last one so it might have gone to wrong and if it did you're going to feel like shit by the time this put-

0:45.6

I'm going to feel really fucking guilty. What if there's like a mat what if the botanical gardens that were at explodes? What if there's a fireball engulfing the botanical gardens and all of the guests other than you are killed in a blazing fireball?

0:58.8

And when you put the show out you were like, oh man, oh no, that's going to be

1:02.8

cut the joke out, to be honest.

1:04.3

Yeah, yeah.

1:06.0

That's what I'll be thinking when there is a massive disaster,

1:08.8

I be thinking shit, I need to edit the show.

1:10.5

Because as soon as the Botanical Garden starts to catch fire, you be you be like shit I've got to run out and edit this

1:14.3

podcast that's the only reason you'll survive is because you're

1:17.9

a duck out to do an edit. I mean to be honest the last time we have to edit a show

1:22.0

after the fact was your fault so

1:23.4

I'm due one so it's okay that's true it's okay it's fine so I woke up bizarrely in the

1:29.3

middle of the night like about four o'clock in the morning, sleep paralysis.

1:33.0

What? I actually had sleep paralysis.

1:35.0

Really?

1:36.0

Really? Really?

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