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Skeptics with a K

Episode #221

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Classical conditioning, Irish referenda, lavender oil, and pro-life rhetoric. Plus Ophelia Cabs, blastocysts, and a visit to the farm. With the latest on QED 2018, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Transcript

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It is Thursday the 5th of April 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with

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the K, the Podcast for Science Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics with

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A K is a production of the Musicide Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally.

0:28.0

I am your host, Michael, with me today is Marsh, and Alice.

0:32.0

So I went to Stratford. You went to Stratford. I went to Stratford. Yeah. Stratford on

0:38.8

Avon. I've never been. Which is embarrassing having an English degree and being a Shakespeare fan and not having gone down to see see where the Bardies?

0:48.0

I think I went once but I think I was about eight or nine years old and I don't remember anything about it other than we went.

0:53.4

It's actually the third time I've been to Stratford but the first time I've been to Stratford

0:57.8

to go to Stratford. Right. Once I was at Stratford race course because I was there for

1:02.2

work. Gotcha. Another time I was there for work retreat so we just never left the confines of the Spa Hotel that we were in because it was a work thing.

1:10.0

So this time I was there to knock about. For Strrav I was like actually there for Lama's birthday.

1:15.0

So we went down to Stratford and Stratford I found it was a weird place because it was like

1:19.8

motorway motorway motor, all the way down.

1:23.1

This is the junction.

1:25.3

Country Road, Bank City Center.

1:27.4

Whoa, what's something on a one-way system?

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It's like you get naught to the middle of town in no time at all.

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It's kind of ridiculous.

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And everywhere is obviously like very small roads, one-way systems little little tiny thing and everything is Shakespeare branded.

1:47.0

Yeah, it would be.

1:48.0

Yeah. Everything is Shakespeare.

1:49.0

Like all the cab companies, they're all called Ophelia Cabs.

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