Episode #232
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Zapping cancer, 3000 gallstones, CAR T-cell therapy, and Get Carter. Plus parasites, immunotherapy, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and the resonant frequency of dead flukes. Showing some promise, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 6th of September 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:16.6 | the K, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the |
| 0:20.7 | Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:29.2 | I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:31.8 | Hello. |
| 0:32.3 | And Alice. Hello. back to the regular lineup yeah |
| 0:35.6 | the bug standard you know Sarah was good up. Sarah was excellent |
| 0:39.8 | I thought Sarah was good not not podcasted before as far as my web I thought she was she was very good |
| 0:44.2 | I'm very entertaining and we've had great feedback from our listeners on Sarah who thought |
| 0:48.8 | she had lots of lots of cool stuff to say which is awesome. So we did that we did that episode with Sarah |
| 0:55.3 | and we recorded that at Alice's flat. Yeah so this is the thing is if listeners |
| 1:00.0 | want to go back over that show and listen really really carefully you might able to hear |
| 1:06.1 | at some point during that recording my car has been broken into which happened directly |
| 1:11.0 | outside of Alice's flat while we had all the windows fully open. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah, I had everything open because it's really hot with four people in a room recording a |
| 1:18.0 | podcast. Yeah and so we were there for two hours maximum I'd say is and in that time my car got broken into and they |
| 1:26.1 | stole from me the thing they stole from me was an iPod 4s sorry an iPhone 4, which I only ever used as a sat-nave and so it was sat in my little |
| 1:35.9 | sort of cradle on the in the car there and I think it can't take a sim card anymore because I think the Sim card little draw on it was |
| 1:45.6 | naked. |
| 1:46.6 | It hasn't been on Wi-Fi for a very long time. |
| 1:49.0 | It's got nothing at all on it apart from the sat-nave system to the to a little use on it, |
| 1:53.1 | but it's got stolen. |
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