Episode #233

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of Skeptics with a K, Marsh and Alice talk about Good Thinking Society’s in-depth new research into crowd-funded cancer treatments, recently published in the British Medical Journal. And Mike talks about going to the cat cafe.

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0:00.0	It is Thursday the 20th of September 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with
0:17.0	Kay, 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
0:24.3	organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally.
0:29.5	I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh.
0:32.0	Hello. And Marsh. Hello.
0:33.0	And Alice.
0:34.0	So I went to the cat cafe.
0:37.0	The cat cafe.
0:38.0	I went to a cat cafe in Japan.
0:40.0	You went to a cat cave in Japan?
0:41.0	Not recently.
0:42.0	I would pass it really regularly and have to really restrain I want to a cat? I did. Not recently.
0:43.0	I will really, really regularly and have to really restrain myself from not.
0:46.0	Because I feel really awful for them.
0:47.0	There are constantly loads of people still around the window staring at them.
0:50.0	Staring at the cat in the window.
0:51.0	I don't know if they like that or not.
0:52.0	I don't know if they dislike that.
0:53.0	I know.
0:54.0	They wouldn't hang around by the window if they didn't like if they found that massively uncomfortable.
0:57.0	I know that they're well looked after at the cat cafe and at the pool.
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