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Skeptics with a K

Episode #268

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Placebo creams, reviving drips, and magical contagion. Plus chewing gum, stray heads, and trampolines. Tossing in a Berocca, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Mixed and edited byMorgan Clarke.

Transcript

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0:00.0

It is a

0:18.2

It is Thursday the 23rd of January 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

0:21.0

Skeptics with a case a production of the Merseys

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Skeptic Society a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific

0:27.0

skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall

0:31.6

with me today is Marsh hello and Alice and Marsh you look like you've lost

0:35.6

something already we haven't we barely just started I wasn't wearing my redding

0:40.2

red and ring today I lost my bag but then I realize my bags over there right you can see my bag now

0:44.6

yes I can't see my bag now I can see your bag there is certainly a bag within

0:49.3

I'm afraid I've left my bag in the office with my laptop in it as I'm about to go and do a talk

0:53.6

tomorrow not in the office spectacular radio this isn't it is well I was just

0:57.9

going to carry on I was going to carry on I'd resolve the missing item issue and it

1:02.2

got back down to focusing when you brought it up while

1:04.3

you're fussing in my eye line.

1:05.7

I saw the fussing I'd resolve the fussing and I got back to a resting position.

1:11.0

So how are you guys doing?

1:12.1

How's it? Are you recovered after New Year's blue Monday as we're recording it is blue Monday?

1:17.4

Someone in the office did say today is it. Do you know it's blue Monday? Like my old boss from my other job came in the office yeah

1:23.7

because he said oh his parent is blue Monday today and he said is that is that a

1:27.4

thing is that a real thing and I was like no it's not a thing and I wrote a

1:30.2

guardian article about how it isn't a think. I was I was reading up about

1:34.0

Blue Monday today and I was reading the article the original 2007 version from

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