Episode #235
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Back pain, blue pills, brain structures, and Blackpool. Plus diving helmets, p-hacking, oversold results, and Doctor Who’s aspect ratio. Speaking via satellite, it’s Skeptics with a K.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 18th of October 2018 and you're listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:16.7 | the K, the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the |
| 0:20.5 | Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptics Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.0 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys and the UK and internationally. |
| 0:29.0 | I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello. And Alice. So I'm sounding more chipper than you might |
| 0:35.9 | expect post QED yes partly because it's not post QED for us no so it's |
| 0:41.8 | it's pretty pre-QED for us although QED for us? No. It's definitely pre-QED for us. Although QED has been and gone. |
| 0:45.5 | Yeah, it makes it. It doesn't make me wonder why you sound chipper. |
| 0:48.6 | Because I think you're more likely to sound chipper post-QD but exhausted. |
| 0:52.4 | Whereas in the road to QD it's like oh I'm wired but I'm |
| 0:55.0 | nervous about. |
| 0:56.0 | Pre-QED Mike's exhausted but still has to push himself through it. |
| 1:01.0 | Post-QED he's exhausted and can give into the exhaustion. |
| 1:04.1 | Yeah and it's just like like chippers like a move thing rather than energy. |
| 1:07.1 | Oh no this is an act mate. This is a full on front. |
| 1:12.4 | I have not slept for two out of the last three nights. |
| 1:15.0 | Nice. Just because I did all the normal things that you do. You know, you don't get undressed and lie down and put a duvet over you and stuff like that. |
| 1:22.0 | I took my shoes off, that sort of thing. down and put a do it over you and stuff like that. |
| 1:22.8 | Took my shoes off, that sort of thing. |
| 1:24.5 | And just didn't lose consciousness at any point, |
| 1:26.8 | which is something I've been advocating for on this show for a while. |
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