Episode #308
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week, Mike talks about the unintended consequences of decisions taken by web developers, and Alice talks about chlorophyll supplements and unhealthy relationships with food. Meanwhile, Marsh organised a party and went to see Black Widow.
Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
Note: Alice’s segment touches on themes around eating disorders, which some listeners may wish to avoid.
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| 0:18.0 | It is Thursday a Thursday the 5th of August 2021 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:20.0 | Skeptics the K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.4 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK |
| 0:28.1 | and internationally. I am your host Michael all with me today is Marsh hello and Alice and last episode I deceived you both what not |
| 0:37.6 | deliberately oh okay not this this time I can't remember what you said last episode Well if you remember last time I brought my air up |
| 0:44.7 | my oh your bullshit smellyy to tandrine water and I sat there and I tried it |
| 0:50.7 | it doesn't work turned out I was using it wrong when I was using it right |
| 0:54.2 | fucking works your treat it's weird really yeah how were you using it wrong you're |
| 0:58.8 | drinking out of a thing so it's got this little kind of donuts that you put |
| 1:02.2 | over the top of the spout on the on the drinking though and I thought that was just a smelly donut right that you drink and you can smell while you're doing yes. |
| 1:10.0 | But actually there's a lot there's a little gap on the donut that draws the water through the donut so that the smell goes into your mouth as well. |
| 1:18.4 | Where there are also scent receptors as well as your taste buds and so you quote and |
| 1:24.5 | quote-unquote taste it and it's not quite the same as tasting juice but it still |
| 1:29.0 | is a more convincing effect than just smelling tangerines |
| 1:32.0 | when you're drinking it. |
| 1:33.0 | And having unfairly maligned this company on air, |
| 1:37.0 | go, yeah, they're making shit, mate. |
| 1:39.0 | Yeah, you're now going to announce them as a sponsor. |
| 1:41.0 | Our first podcast sponsor, not like those times we had fake sponsors. |
| 1:44.7 | Skeptuous, okay, is brought to you by whoever's going to pay us the most money. |
| 1:49.1 | Yep. |
| 1:50.1 | CBD, everybody else does it? |
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