It is a Thursday the 14th of May 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics with a K is a production of the Merseys

Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys

around the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall. With today is Marsh hello and Alice still in lockdown

still recording remotely so we all still sound weird and we are still in lockdown but Boris did tell us that if you cannot work from home you should now be actively encouraged to go to work from today.

So if we can argue that this is working that we cannot do it from home,

then we could be doing this in person. I mean, we're not because it's utterly ridiculous that that is the

suggestion given that we have over 60,000 deaths in the UK but still

30,000 deaths in the UK. It's not 60,000 yet you're you're thinking of next month sure

Yeah give it a couple of days I'm sure Alice will not 60,000 yet. You're thinking of next month sure.

Yeah, give it a couple of days.

I'm sure Alice will be right by the time it goes to air,

won't it?

Mike, what are you scraping?

What am I scraping?

Yeah.

Um, tea.

Why are you scraping salt?

You went to all the set up of this shore.

Alice even opened her kind of coke off air in order to not create any weird background noises.

We start the shore, we're like a minute in and you start scraping stuff.

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