Episode #225
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Debating Flat Earthers, placebo sleep, mountain walks, and long commutes. Plus serial addition, friendly physicists, controlling your data, and attracting crime. Wandering the streets of Birmingham whilst high, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 31st of May 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K |
| 0:17.0 | the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics with a K is a production of the Mercy |
| 0:22.4 | Science Skeptics Society, Kay is a production of the Mercy Side Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.5 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys, around the UK and |
| 0:28.6 | internationally. I am your host Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. |
| 0:33.0 | And Alice? |
| 0:34.0 | And Marsh, you've been on holiday. |
| 0:36.0 | I've been on holiday. |
| 0:37.0 | You've been off on your holidays. |
| 0:38.0 | I was away for a full week. |
| 0:40.0 | Seven days. |
| 0:41.0 | I never take a holiday for seven days. |
| 0:42.0 | No? No time I did |
| 0:43.9 | Apart from Japan and then recently but normally I know what we only go for like four |
| 0:48.3 | Like last year you did like three holidays in one year did I. You kept going on holiday like it was either |
| 0:54.2 | last year the year before you just kept going. Well it depends if you count like going to |
| 0:58.4 | Cape Town as a holiday. I mean yes. I didn't choose to go to Cape well I did choose I was I was invited to Cape Town and I attended |
| 1:06.8 | but you weren't kidnapped and forced to go to Cape Town that's not the definition of a holiday |
| 1:10.9 | so what you go without being kidnapped? I don't think you |
| 1:14.0 | going to Cape Town counts as holiday but me going to Australia does count to as |
| 1:17.4 | holiday because I've extended the time out to spend more time there to actually look around and I'm taking |
| 1:24.0 | Warren so that I can actually enjoy looking around whereas you went on your own and I |
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