Episode #319

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! This episode, Mike annoys cryptocurrency fans talking about web3 and non-fungible tokens, and Marsh examines SEO-baiting ‘news’ articles and sponsored scientific studies. Meanwhile, Alice talks about her December commitment ceremony.

Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.

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0:00.0	It is a
0:18.0	Thursday the 6th of January 2022 when you're listening to Skeptics with the K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.
0:20.0	Skeptics for the K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society,
0:23.7	a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys, Iran,
0:27.5	the UK and internationally.
0:29.1	I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh.
0:31.5	Hello and Alice. Hello. And it's and Alice and it's new year.
0:34.1	It's new year.
0:35.1	You got 22 straight like the number of times we have to go through the
0:38.8	because I stop the date up.
0:40.1	Yeah.
0:41.1	Mess the day up or you stumble over a word or something.
0:43.2	You got it perfect.
0:44.7	Got in their first time.
0:46.2	Now he takes it till about June to get it right first time.
0:49.0	But it's 20.
0:51.0	If you'd said when we'd started the show, you still be doing this
0:53.2	2022 was a billion trillion years. Yeah, it was that is when we started doing this.
0:57.7	And 2009 is a billion billion years ago, yeah, it was, you know, but yeah, we've been
1:03.2	podcasting forever now, literally forever. Literally forever, every minute that's ever been.
1:07.8	Yeah. So have you had a nice new year? Did you have a good Christmas? I had a
1:11.6	Midling Christmas because my niece got COVID.
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