Episode #272
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Dowsing for cancer, German graffiti, and the bloody Illuminati. Plus caesium salts, type II pneumocytes, and 1970s Doctor Who. Stay calm! Remain indoors! It’s Skeptics with a K.
Mixed and edited byMorgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 19th of March 2020 and you are listening to the |
| 0:17.7 | broadcast do not talk about the event do not talk about the event. I am your host, Michael All with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello? And it's Alice. Hello, Alice. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello, Alice. You're less paranoid than I am. Yeah, I am surprisingly. It's good isn't it? |
| 0:35.8 | This is a really weird scenario for me to be in because I have I have anxiety and have |
| 0:41.0 | OCD and have periods of like OCD flare-ups where I am quite paranoid about |
| 0:45.5 | specifically contamination for me germphobia is very much the thing I have |
| 0:50.4 | frequently have periods where I'm very worried about contamination to the point that when I was a child I wouldn't roll my sleeves up because I didn't want to touch the sleeves to contaminate my hands. So I would constantly have wet sleeves from washing my hands constantly and not rolling my sleeves up. |
| 1:04.4 | And at other points I've had like the backs of my hands start bleeding from washing them so often. |
| 1:08.7 | Like I am super paranoid when it comes to contamination. |
| 1:13.1 | Suddenly we have a contamination risk. |
| 1:15.6 | Totally fine. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, just Thursday to you, |
| 1:17.7 | and it's not. |
| 1:18.7 | See everybody else panic. |
| 1:21.5 | Yeah. This is really weird. Is this what I'm like normally? I'm not doing that well. I am anxious about all of this. This is weird. You are both struggling quite. |
| 1:31.6 | Within a space about 24 hours it was it literally flipped overnight yeah |
| 1:35.5 | I was totally fine then I don't even know what the trigger was and I thought oh no no this is shit this is like |
| 1:40.5 | properly she oh and it certainly seems to me part of it is that the big thing that both of you were worrying about is you're worried about contaminating other people. |
| 1:49.7 | That's my only concern is that I don't know that I am good enough and remember things enough |
| 1:56.1 | to not pick up little germi things. |
| 2:00.3 | Which is never going to be a concern for me because I literally do that for a job |
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