Episode #378
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Alice discusses the manufacture of argan oil, and the medicinal claims made for it and other similar oils. Meanwhile, Marsh reflects on compassionate skepticism following the death of Daniel Dennett.
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| 0:00.0 | It is a |
| 0:14.0 | Thursday the 25 of April 2024 and you're listening to Skeptics with K |
| 0:18.6 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:21.2 | Skeptics with the K is a production of the Mercy |
| 0:23.4 | Side Skeptic Society a nonprofit organization for the promotion of scientific |
| 0:27.3 | skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. I'm your host |
| 0:31.3 | Mike Hall with me today is Marsh hello and Alice we're still |
| 0:35.0 | the classic lineup the classic lineup the classic swack lineup we haven't even |
| 0:39.1 | plugged another microphone into our shiny soundboard to see whether it can take all of that. |
| 0:43.9 | We never have, we never have yet. |
| 0:45.3 | Still on the three. |
| 0:46.3 | So Alice, you've been away. |
| 0:47.3 | You've been on holiday. |
| 0:48.3 | It was very exciting. |
| 0:50.3 | Basically, in the UK listeners will know this and I think this is true for chunks of Europe as well |
| 0:55.7 | But it has been fucking miserable. Yeah since about June last year. |
| 1:00.9 | Yeah, the wettest it's ever been, basically, since June. It's rained non-stop, it's been gray, it's been dark, and I am solar-powered. I need sun. My mom calls me a lizard, because I need son. I think technically the show's |
| 1:15.2 | solar power today because they're at my house we've had some son earlier so this may be a |
| 1:18.9 | solar power show thing. And I'm getting miserable I've been miserable so we booked a holiday and we thought where can we go in a early April |
| 1:27.0 | That is as sunny as you can get in early April. So we went to the equator, basically. |
| 1:32.8 | That would make sense. |
| 1:33.6 | We went to Morocco. |
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