Episode #328
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Marsh and Alice present part one of their experiences at the Great Awakening Tour in Birmingham, a nexus of conspiracy theories, anti-vaccine activism, sovereign citizens, and amateur poetry. Meanwhile, Mike is excited for the casting of the new Doctor.
Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke
Note: we made an edit to the show after publication to remove some comments about a statue that was made by a problematic sculptor (which we did not realise until after publication).
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday The 12th of May 2022 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K, the podcast for Science Reason and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:20.0 | Skeptics with the K is a production of the the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.3 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello. And Alice. So last episode we talked about the |
| 0:35.6 | sci-fi thing is this sci-fi was that sci-fi did h-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-trels |
| 0:39.5 | invent sci-fi we did and I had lots of feedback from listeners on that I have had lots of feedback from listeners on that. I've had lots of people |
| 0:44.9 | getting in touch giving me their views but two people produced kind of like almost |
| 0:49.4 | essay length response to me. They wouldn't be the first people to produce essays on this very topic. |
| 0:55.6 | Indeed, yeah. But both absolutely vehemently disagreeing with each other. So I had one person wrote in taking a very, very hard line on no |
| 1:06.8 | Star Trek's not science fiction because it's obviously |
| 1:10.1 | Balak. Yeah because it's because it's obviously bollocks. Doctor who's not science fiction, Star Wars is a science, basically anything that isn't Arthur C Clark is not science fiction. Because science fiction has got to be hard, hard, hard, hard, to the hardest of hard science fiction. |
| 1:24.5 | That's weird that Star Trek wouldn't, |
| 1:26.3 | I mean, not to rehash the entire conversation |
| 1:28.2 | of it, but it's where that Star Trek, |
| 1:29.5 | in their mind wouldn't count as that fairly hard science fiction because everything in that is |
| 1:33.8 | meant to be extremely science-bears. Whereas Dr. Who, it's magic base, it's fantasy |
| 1:39.2 | magic in large part. Yeah, and Dr who kind of you know shifts around the genres as well you know it's some |
| 1:45.8 | Doctor Who stories can be quite hard science fiction some Doctor who stories are there's no |
| 1:50.3 | science fiction elements in it as all other than the doctor turns up. |
| 1:54.0 | Yeah, and the doctor is the only science fiction element in the story. |
| 1:57.0 | He often turns up, or she or he often turns up using some form of time travel. |
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