Episode #336

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Alice takes a look into the facts behind the painkiller fentanyl and the reported dangers of accidental exposure, while Mike talks about autistic-coded characters in fiction and how their treatment impacts autistic people. Plus Emma takes Mike to see Hamilton live in London.

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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.

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0:00.0	It is a
0:18.0	Thursday the first of September 2022 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking.
0:21.0	Skeptics with a K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society,
0:24.4	a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys
0:28.3	around the UK and internationally. I am your host Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh.
0:32.4	Hello Alice and Emma. It's me. I'm your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh.
0:32.6	Hello Alice and Emma.
0:34.6	It's me again.
0:35.4	Hello, Emma.
0:36.2	Hello.
0:37.2	So Emma and I went down to London to see Hamilton.
0:41.1	You did.
0:42.1	We went to see Hamilton live, live in in the flesh human beings on stage
0:46.4	which was good it was fun so we we went down Emma you had tickets anyway
0:49.6	but your mom was gonna go with you and then she couldn't because of the rail strikes. So you asked me to go as well.
0:55.8	Only other person I know who's obsessed with. And that's my fault as well.
1:00.3	It was you were the one who persuaded me to watch it but that
1:03.2	presented probably because there was still rail strikes. So we ended up
1:05.7	getting the bus. We got the National Express coach down. Which actually it
1:10.9	wasn't as bad as as we thought once it set off.
1:14.4	Are they quite comfortable these days?
1:15.7	I've heard they're actually quite, there's quite a lot of kind of mod cons to make the bus a bit.
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