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Skeptics with a K

Episode #296

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Adult autism, It’s a Sin, HIV myths and special interests. Plus wasting time, Valentine’s Day, and mixing vaccines revisited. Bartering bananas, it’s Skeptics with a K. Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.

If you’re based in the UK and interested in getting an HIV test the NHS website can help find a test centres near you.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're going to. It is a

0:19.7

It is Thursday the 18th of February 2021 and you're listening to Skeptics with the Kay, the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.

0:23.0

Skeptics with the Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit

0:26.5

organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys

0:29.6

around the UK and internationally.

0:31.6

I am your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh.

0:34.0

Hello and Alice. Hello. So it was Valentine's Day.

0:39.0

It was a peculiar Valentine's Day because it's basically it's been March

0:43.7

20 for a year now and all of the days have blended into one. Yeah I was just

0:49.3

thinking that Joe we used to do this short face to face. I know. We were in the same room and we breathe the same air while recording.

0:58.0

It's strange. We were all like, oh, that's how we all got COVID.

1:02.0

Yeah, that's how that's happened. He'd be like, oh no, we've got to do it in person because it's just not the same when we're a, it's really useful to have the actual connection. We can't just do it remotely. Turns out, we've fucking could have done the entire time. I don't need to hang around with you

1:14.0

pricks any of this time. I mean the video chat helps with that. Doing on video chat helps

1:18.9

with that a lot. That is true. Technology caught up. We just struggled to do this on video chat and you

1:26.2

know when we first started. But yeah so that it was peculiar because normally you

1:30.9

know kind of Valentine's Day is a thing and I did

1:34.5

fuck all for Valentine days because I didn't even notice it coming. We've never done

1:38.8

anything. I rarely we rarely do stuff for Valentine's Day.

1:41.9

Warren bought me a card and some flowers which was nice.

1:44.2

Nicola actively hate it.

1:45.3

Yeah, it's normally along those lines, you know, a card and some flowers.

1:48.2

It's an excuse to do something rather than it's a big thing we celebrate necessarily.

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