Episode #385
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Alice looks at the background of Hongchi Xiao, the TCM practitioner recently convicted of manslaughter for his promotion of paida lajin, or 'slapping therapy'. Meanwhile, Mike looks at the adverts which promote fake mobile games. Meanwhile, the whole team took part in Liverpool Pride.
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| 0:13.2 | It is Thursday the first of August 2024 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K |
| 0:18.1 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking the 15th anniversary |
| 0:22.3 | episode is it of Skeptics with a |
| 0:24.4 | K because the first episode went out on the 1st of August 2009 I mean I said |
| 0:29.9 | is it like I was surprised but I mentioned it here you did mention it here but also we aren't the kind of |
| 0:34.9 | show that would like other shows we've got like oh it's 15 years should we do something |
| 0:38.9 | we'll do a special it was literally like we saw you two days ago and you're like, oh, by the way, |
| 0:44.0 | which is quite advanced notice for us |
| 0:46.0 | because usually it's, oh, it was our 15th year episode last week. |
| 0:50.0 | Did you know the one we just put out was actually that? |
| 0:52.0 | No, it didn't rule that at the time. No, so I looked... Did you know the one we just put out was actually that? |
| 0:52.6 | No, it didn't roll that at the time. |
| 0:54.4 | No, so I looked this up. |
| 0:55.3 | So our first episode went out on the 1st of August 2009. |
| 0:58.8 | Geez. |
| 1:00.0 | Which was a Saturday? |
| 1:01.6 | Oddly. What? Was it a Saturday? The first episode went out on a Saturday? What? |
| 1:03.0 | Was it a Saturday? |
| 1:04.0 | The first episode went out on a Saturday. |
| 1:05.0 | Did the second one go out on a Thursday? |
| 1:07.0 | No, the second one went out on a Wednesday. |
| 1:10.0 | What were we doing? |
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