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Skeptics with a K

Episode #215

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Parole hearings, NHS homeopathy, making tea, and the Murder Bus. Plus The Last Jedi spoilers, indeterminate sentences, and procedures of limited clinical effectiveness. Milking the space cow, it’s Skeptics with a K.

If you need to skip through Emma’s discussion on sex offenders, skip to 42:15.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is Thursday the 11th of January 2018 and you're listening to

0:17.4

Skeptics with a K, the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

0:20.8

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

0:24.5

a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys,

0:28.2

around the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall. With me today Marsh hello Alice and our special guest it's Emma

0:35.9

Hello fresh from having done QED not too long ago as well

0:40.1

That feels like ages ago now it does feel like a long time ago.

0:43.4

And when was QBD?

0:44.4

Like, two months ago, three months ago?

0:46.6

Three months ago, I think it was.

0:48.1

Yeah, forever ago, really.

0:49.4

You know?

0:50.4

Is this your second time on the swack or third time?

0:51.9

Third, although you might want or third time? Third time.

0:54.0

The first time was the drunk show, wasn't it?

0:56.0

Yeah.

0:57.0

Wasn't a proper official episode?

0:59.0

Was it not a proper official episode?

1:00.0

No, I put it out as a special because I didn't use a genuine episode number on that shite.

1:05.6

No, that is true.

1:07.6

People occasionally ask us to redo it.

1:09.0

Maybe we will and maybe we won't be as drunk.

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