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Skeptics with a K

Episode #358

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alice looks at media reports around the IARC classification of aspartame as carcinogenic and Mike asks 'why did the chicken cross the road?' Meanwhile, Marsh faces off against crypto scammers and Mike takes a holiday.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It is a

0:18.2

It is Thursday the 6th of July 2023 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 Mercy

0:23.4

Side Skeptic Society, a nonprofit organization for the promotion of

0:26.9

scientific skepticism on Merseys, around the UK and internationally. I'm

0:31.1

your host Mike Hall with me today is Marsh hello and Alice I was just

0:35.2

looking at my calendar we only recorded once last month we did yeah well we did

0:40.1

the extra bonus episode in the park. We did, that was true. We did do that.

0:44.3

Which we did crouched behind a bush. We did. And it also it ended slightly hurriedly because

0:49.4

we were about to do the charity walk and like people started turning up for the charity walk

0:53.1

including people who'd only just met the group yes like who'd been to one event

0:56.8

before the charity walk and they get there and we're huddled around the awful

0:59.6

and I was like becoming incredibly self-conscious.

1:03.0

It was quite awkward.

1:04.0

They were very nice about it, but it was quite awkward.

1:06.0

Well, I found massively frustrating about it is we've got quite an expensive rig that we use for recording the show.

1:11.0

It doesn't turn out perfect sound quality, which is

1:14.3

partly because I'm old now. I'm shit at using it, but this was several hundred pounds worth of

1:18.4

kick when we bought it, this little portable recording rig that we've got. And the sound quality we got from just the

1:24.7

three of us stood around my phone was actually pretty comparable. And it's Alfa

1:29.7

fucks sake. But yeah, so I've been away. I've been to Spain. I've been to Spanish Spain on how was Spain? It was okay. It was it was hot. It was very very hot. It was very hot here. It was very hot here was very very hot here yes I'm given to understand that this was the case because we were looking at the

1:47.2

weather in the UK so we could text you all and be ha ha ha ha ha and there was oh actually it's really nice over there as well.

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