Episode #347
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Alice looks at the 'menstrual masking', the latest beauty trend from TikTok, while Mike looks closer at the Hawthorne Effect and whether the original Hawthorne experiments actually demonstrate the effect. Meanwhile, Marsh leads the rock 'n' roll life when he buys a new radiator.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the second of February, |
| 0:15.0 | 2023 and you're listening to Skeptics with the Kay, |
| 0:18.0 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:20.0 | Skeptics with Kay is of production of the Merseys |
| 0:22.8 | Skeptic Society, a nonprofit organization for the promotion of scientific |
| 0:26.5 | skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I'm your host Mike Hall |
| 0:30.9 | with me today is Marsh. and Alice hello I've just noticed |
| 0:34.8 | I've got mud on my shoe and it's making me quite unhappy. Well you're still on my rug as well in my |
| 0:39.1 | office room in my office room. It's my newly reoriented office room. Let's on the top of my shoe. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm just going to just give it a little buff off there. |
| 0:46.0 | Just, there we go. |
| 0:48.0 | By buff off, you mean rub it onto my carpet? |
| 0:50.0 | Off the shoe onto my carpet. |
| 0:53.2 | There we go. |
| 0:54.2 | I got, I rode one of those e-scooters back from work. |
| 0:57.4 | Okay. |
| 0:58.4 | And I was trying to put the stand back on I think I must have scuffed it underneath the |
| 1:02.6 | e scooter I didn't break my ankle no I did hurt my wrist they're quite they're not |
| 1:06.2 | got good suspension they're very terribly comfortable but got me here quicker |
| 1:10.9 | so that's true. That is true. |
| 1:12.8 | You're in my newly warm office because of my fancy new radiator |
| 1:16.0 | that I've had installed in here. Yeah, I was about to say so we're sitting in here slowly |
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