Episode #354

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alice talks about the Alexander Technique and the claims it can help with breathing problems including asthma. And Mike looks at how end-to-end encryption is impacted by the Online Safety Bill. Meanwhile, Marsh and Alice return from a trip to Bratislava.

Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke

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0:00.0	It is a
0:20.7	It is Thursday the 11th of May 2023 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking Skeptics for the K is a production of the Merseys
0:23.0	Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific
0:26.5	skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I'm your host
0:30.4	Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello and Alice. I've spent a lot of time
0:35.1	recently in cinemas. Okay. Having been recently to see the Mario movie you
0:41.4	mentioned I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy I want to see that yesterday we saw
0:45.9	that we did see that so Guardians of the Galaxy did you see it in a place where the
0:50.0	persons sat next to you had brought two six-year-olds in and then proceeded to take
0:54.7	photos of the six-year-olds in the cinema and then proceeded to text her friend photos
0:59.8	of those six-year-olds whilst in the cinema as a kid's like walking up and down talking to her and her other friend who's with her and like needing the toilet which is fine kids need to do that but like I need the toilet okay well maybe in a little bit and then she's on her phone she's not saying okay in a little bit because she wants to watch the then she's on her phone. She's not saying okay in a little bit because she wants to watch the film.
1:14.0	She's on her phone at the time and so she got, hang on, I've got to finish my message before I take you to the toilet.
1:19.4	Did you have that experience? I did not have that experience. That was my experience of that film. I was
1:23.2	completely oblivious to all of this because we went to the every man right
1:26.5	who were in those big sofas that they've got.
1:28.3	So Nicola Marsh had a little couple sofa. Little sofere.
1:30.9	A little third wheeler in a little chair next on the other side of them.
1:35.0	And then the family of children and noise and distraction were on the other side of them, but because
1:41.8	the sofas are quite large completely blocked.
1:44.1	I had no awareness, the volume of the film was loud enough that I couldn't really hear them talking.
1:49.2	I did see the kids go to the Lou but zero disrupt.
1:52.6	Yeah, you didn't see her in a form.
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