It is a

the 12th of November 2020 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K,

the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

Skeptics with the K is a production of the Mercy Side Skeptic Society,

a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Mercy Side around the UK and

internationally. I am your host Mike Hall. me today is Marsh hello and Alice and

Joe Biden won the election. Joe Biden won the election before that might it well

actually related to that your opening was very somber there. Much more somber, you know, it wasn't kind of, it's Thursday, it was, it is Thursday. Like, are you disappointed that Trump lost?

No, what I'm doing, you see, part of the problem is, listeners will have noticed the incredibly

variable audio quality on this show since lockdown, since we're just recording at home

on whatever kit what we can get hold of instead of the nice

which is limited because of lockdown yes there is an exacerbating factor in there to to make

it not just that we need to use the kit but also we can't find a lot of the

kit because everyone needs to use the kit.

So I'm trying to be a little bit more snooker commentator and just be a little bit closer to the

like and a little bit gentler instead of loud so it all bounces off the

walls and echoes back and makes me sound horribly roomy. I'll find out the hard way

after this show goes out whether that's been successful or not.

Well, listeners write in. What you need is one of those commentary microphones, the ones that rest on your top lip, like it will hit the mustache.

Yeah, yeah. And here he goes now. This is Mike Hall about to commentate and tell people that the placebo effect is bullshit and he's done it it is

bullshit it is bullshit. More on that later. Those lip mics are actually what they use for the

Dalek voices as well they use a little lip mike like a snooker commentator or a horse

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