Episode #274
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Coronavirus pseudoscience, confirmation bias, fake news, and 5G telephony. Plus the Rocky Horror Picture Show, dancing nurses, and the school disco. Still in lockdown, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:13.0 | It is Thursday the 16th of April 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K |
| 0:18.4 | The Podcast for Science Reason and Critical Thinking Skeptics with the K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, |
| 0:24.4 | a non-profit organisation which is now distributed across the county because we're not allowed to see each other in person anymore |
| 0:32.0 | because the Prime Minister told us |
| 0:34.0 | were not allowed. |
| 0:34.8 | For very good reasons. |
| 0:36.1 | I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:39.0 | Hello. |
| 0:39.5 | And Alice. |
| 0:40.5 | Hello. |
| 0:41.3 | Not technically with me, but joining me via satellite link, as they used to say back in the day, showing my |
| 0:49.2 | fucking age there. How are you two doing? |
| 0:51.2 | I'm as with you as anyone's allowed to be with anybody at the moment in this socially isolated |
| 0:56.9 | dystopia that we all now inhabit. Other places are less locked down than we are. I had a meeting today with some of our European partners for |
| 1:04.8 | one of the projects I work on and some of them are still in the labs. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah, where is that though? |
| 1:08.8 | They were, are they well, less than two meters apart. It's a disgrace. |
| 1:15.0 | Dis disgusting. I mean we will come to that in a little bit in my story because it turns out |
| 1:20.0 | we'll probably talk a little bit about the coronavirus today. |
| 1:23.0 | A little bit, a little bit once or twice. |
| 1:25.0 | Might well. It might come up. |
| 1:27.0 | So last episode we did our very first ever remote recording of Skeptics with it. |
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