Episode #339
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Alice is back from holiday, to talk about how to read a scientific paper, and Mike talks about how the prison system disproportionately impacts autistic people. Meanwhile, the whole team goes to see Brian Cox and Robin Ince live in Liverpool - with unexpected results!
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 13th of October 2022 when you're listening to Skeptics with a K |
| 0:18.4 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:20.9 | Skeptics with a K is a production of the |
| 0:23.0 | Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the |
| 0:26.2 | promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and |
| 0:29.1 | internationally. I am your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello and Alice |
| 0:33.6 | welcome back Alice how are your how are your travels good I didn't get like didn't |
| 0:39.6 | die in northern sight of the summer we were quite worried about going to Northern Cyprus on our own because my parents, Villa, is in the middle of nowhere, and neither of us drive, and it's not so easy to get around. |
| 0:50.0 | But we did okay, we managed to get the bus into town and we did all right when you say you didn't die |
| 0:56.0 | What what were you worried about in terms of potential death not in terms of well I mean feeding ourselves was a bit of an issue |
| 1:01.4 | It was a starving kind of thing. |
| 1:03.0 | Are you only there for 10 deans? |
| 1:05.0 | You can live without food for 10 deers, |
| 1:06.0 | as long as drinking water, I hear. |
| 1:08.0 | There was a supermarket about a 25 minute walk from the villa, |
| 1:11.0 | but in the day it was getting up to like 38 degrees so there's a heat stroke. |
| 1:14.4 | So there's a heat stroke. |
| 1:15.4 | Yeah that's true. |
| 1:17.4 | Yeah, this is problematic. |
| 1:19.4 | But we survived and we did some sunbathing and we went on a boat and we went in a boat. |
| 1:25.3 | So every time we go to Northern Cyprus Warren really likes boats. |
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