Episode #175 - Part Two

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Homeopathy in Liverpool, regression to the mean, mistletoe, and cancer. Plus Big Pharma, broken laptops, and healing crises. Keeping arnica behind the clock, it’s Skeptics with a K.

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0:00.0	Previously on Skeptics with a K.
0:03.0	It seems likely that HIV is a fictitious viral infection.
0:07.0	Likely is overstating that.
0:08.0	As you do not need gravity to explain why things fall to Earth.
0:12.0	What?
0:13.0	She's not stupid, but she's an idiot.
0:16.0	Noel Edmonds has been causing a bit of a stir lately.
0:19.0	He has, hasn't he?
0:20.0	He's just got two guys who routinely sit there at a teabag each shoulder.
0:25.0	He's taken me completely out of context.
0:27.0	Everything I said was fine.
0:28.0	Yeah, but you were telling cancer patients they deserve it.
0:30.0	Ah, fuck off, fuck off.
0:32.0	We have to cut all of that.
0:33.0	All of that's got to go.
0:34.0	Yeah. Yeah. So we've talked on the show a few times in the last few weeks about the consultation
0:45.4	by a Liverpool clinical commissioning group or CCG as part of their review of the funding
0:50.8	of NHS homeopathy in Liverpool.
0:52.8	We've talked about it a reasonable chunk at several stages along the line.
0:57.8	Some fast background on that, although more detail can be found by listening to past episodes.
1:02.4	There has been a home...
1:04.0	You're not going to tell them which ones.
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