Episode #361

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In this extended episode, Mike looks at the recent 82 minute video from the YouTuber Medlife Crisis about the amazing power of the placebo effect. Meanwhile, Alice and Marsh stumble upon an injured man and step in to help.

Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.

Transcript

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0:00.0	It is a
0:16.2	It is Thursday the 17th of August 2023 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking
0:21.1	Skeptics with the K case of production of the Merseys
0:23.5	Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on
0:27.8	Merseys around the UK and internationally. I'm your host Michael Hall with me today is Marsh.
0:32.8	Hello.
0:33.8	And Alice.
0:34.8	So we just had the Merseysi Skeptic Summer Picnic.
0:37.6	We did.
0:38.6	That's right. That was a love it.
0:39.6	It was very successful.
0:40.6	It was very successful.
0:41.6	We had a really good turnout despite the fact that the ground was very squelty.
0:45.0	It was sodden. Very squelty.
0:47.0	It has been raining constantly in Liverpool and the rest of the UK, but we know
0:52.3	Liverpool for like three months
0:55.5	two and a half months yeah yeah yeah like every day basically for that amount of time
0:59.5	as of as of recording because this is going out a week after we record it so the
1:05.0	last week might be beautiful. Might have been beautiful we don't know. It's sunny right
1:07.6	now as we're recording and it was sunny on the day of the picnic. It was very
1:12.2	windy eventually on the day of the picnic. It was very windy.
1:13.0	But it was sunny on the day of the picnic,
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