Episode #212
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Hepatocellular Carcinoma, thieving baby macaques, aristolochic acid, and traditional healing. Plus Justice League, science communication, aloe vera, and trainers. Listening to David Bowie drinking beer, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 30th of November 2017 and you're listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:16.4 | the Kay, the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics with Decay is |
| 0:20.6 | a production of the Merseys Skeptptic Society, a non-profit organisation for |
| 0:24.4 | the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys, around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:28.8 | I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello. |
| 0:32.3 | And Alice. So we're recording in your house today Marsh we are |
| 0:36.6 | recording in my house in my living room this time so less of an echo less |
| 0:40.2 | less echoing we hope which is is because the where we normally we normally |
| 0:44.7 | recorded my office these days but the electrics are being done so we would |
| 0:48.2 | be recording in the dark in the dark literally recording in the dark if we'd sat in the office |
| 0:53.4 | which would have been great for reading notes |
| 0:56.3 | yeah could you even get into your office in if the electric because it's electric |
| 0:59.3 | was us it's just the lighting just a lighting not they the lighting mains, so we'll just sit there in a dark. |
| 1:06.8 | How long are they shut the lighting in down for? |
| 1:08.4 | Until 1 a.m. |
| 1:09.7 | Okay, so it's just today. |
| 1:10.9 | Yeah, just this evening. |
| 1:12.1 | Because that wouldn't be ideal in like a technology park. |
| 1:15.0 | A technology building, like lights don't work, |
| 1:18.0 | not brilliant. |
| 1:19.0 | So it means we're in the thing with your new cat. |
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