Episode #231

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Plastic-free July, red aspirin, homeopathy funding, and varicose veins. Plus Joe Pesci, hypnotic medicine, killing turtles, and tea bag stitching. Burying the lede, it’s Skeptics with a K.

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0:00.0	It is Thursday the 23rd of August 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with
0:16.4	Kay, the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. Skeptics with the
0:20.2	Kay is a production of the Mercy Side Skeptic Society, a non-profit
0:23.9	organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK
0:27.5	and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh.
0:31.2	Hello and Alice. And we have a special guest today it's
0:34.8	Sarah hi hello Sarah hi how are you I think you might be the first not
0:41.4	British person we've had on the show.
0:43.2	I think that is probably true, although there's a caveat in that we had Gerainton and he, when we first met
0:50.1	him, was very American despite not being American.
0:52.6	Yes.
0:53.6	When we first met him, he had a very heavy American accent.
0:56.6	Really?
0:57.6	Yeah, yeah, very heavy American accent.
0:58.6	I didn't know that about him.
0:59.7	He only just moved back.
1:01.6	While he was out there. Well, I've seen the way that Americans are treated on Incredulous, so I'm a little bit nervous.
1:08.0	Slam.
1:10.0	Slam! Don't Tar us with Andy Wilson brush. That's entirely his doing. Yes, he seems to think that they have a lower IQ automatically because of their accent.
1:20.4	Probably what Andy thinks. It's not because of their accent. It not because of their international reputation, Sarah.
1:24.8	Come on, let's not mints words here.
1:27.0	I didn't vote for Trump, so come on.
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