Episode #310
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
In this bumper episode, Alice talks about the documentary ‘Sickness and Lies’, which claims social media influencers are faking chronic illness for attention and notoriety, and Marsh discusses the question mark over the authorship of the book ‘The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism’. Meanwhile, Mike takes up axe throwing and goes to see Free Guy.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a |
| 0:15.0 | Thursday the second of September 2021 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K |
| 0:19.0 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:22.0 | Skeptics with a K is a production of the Mercy Side Skeptics with the Kaye is a production of the Mercy Science Skeptic Society, |
| 0:24.9 | a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys |
| 0:28.7 | around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm your host, my call with me today is Marsh hello and Alice hello and Alice's dogs there are |
| 0:35.8 | there are two dogs in the room while we are recording this could be a terrible idea |
| 0:40.6 | but I do think it's the best way to record in a house with two dogs and not have |
| 0:46.1 | them barking at the window. |
| 0:47.5 | So there may be cameos throughout the episode. |
| 0:50.4 | Listeners can look forward to that. |
| 0:51.4 | Lupin is currently chewing on a blanket in between Mike and Marsha's feet because he likes them |
| 0:57.2 | and he wants to be there. |
| 0:59.2 | Mike is under a blanket with just her nose sticking out. |
| 1:01.8 | We just see the nose. Yeah, yeah, it's good. |
| 1:05.0 | So as the world continues to get back to normal, we're going out and doing new things. |
| 1:08.6 | So recently we went out for my wife's birthday and we went axe throwing. |
| 1:13.4 | We did go axe throwing. |
| 1:15.2 | Which was a peculiar, I wasn't keen on the idea of going axe throwing because as far as I'm concerned, |
| 1:19.5 | it's kill practice. |
| 1:21.9 | Potentially, I suppose, yeah. |
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