Episode #207
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Vaccination during pregnancy, science communication, and what happened in Las Vegas. Plus vertebrae, indirectlanguage, matched controls, and the remake of Dynasty. Taking patients at their word, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 21st of September 2017 and you're listening to |
| 0:16.4 | Skeptics with the Kay, the Podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:19.8 | Skeptics with the Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.4 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:29.0 | I am your host, Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello. And Alice. Hello. So I call with me today is Marsh. Hello? So I went to Las Vegas. You did go to Vegas. I spent |
| 0:37.8 | five days in Las Vegas. It didn't seem like the best choice. I mean it's not my kind of town Vegas. No in fairness. |
| 0:46.8 | Although you did wrap our Christmas presents in incredibly sparkly paper that we still have |
| 0:51.9 | gone everywhere. So you clearly do like some sparkly paper that we still have been everywhere. |
| 0:53.0 | So you clearly do like some sparkly things. |
| 0:55.0 | On the flight over there actually, I watched the new alien film, |
| 0:58.0 | Alien Covenant. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't watch that. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah, I wouldn't bother. Yes, bollocks and none of the characters in it make any sense. |
| 1:07.0 | Not even in the old fast-bender. |
| 1:09.0 | No, neither of them. None of them. No, none of the characters make sense. |
| 1:13.0 | Not even the xenomorph? No, just make any sense. They, so they've filled in a |
| 1:17.5 | backstory for the xenomorphs. It's like, oh well that's a bit shit actually. |
| 1:20.6 | I prefer to when it was just they were monsters they found on |
| 1:23.2 | a planet slash air out there but mild spoilers for alien covenant but I'm not |
| 1:28.1 | spoiling it because don't fucking watch it so they they they're colonists are on the way on the way to a planet somewhere and they pick up a signal which is that they recognize it and they say, oh, that's that's music. |
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