Episode #386
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Marsh discusses the recent riots in cities around the UK, and Mike looks at a recent paper which claims to explain how the placebo effect influences pain. Meanwhile, Alice steps on a (metaphorical) hornet's nest.
Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 15th of August 2024 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K |
| 0:17.6 | the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with a K is a production of the |
| 0:22.3 | Merseys Skeptics with the Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 0:24.8 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello. |
| 0:32.6 | And Alice. |
| 0:33.6 | So I went to a christening and to a baptism, in fact. |
| 0:38.4 | An actual baptism. |
| 0:39.3 | An actual like a proper one, not one the Anglican types. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, proper Catholic one. This was something some I went to this at the weekend with Emma and it was the parents involved were not in any way interested in the baptism. They were doing it in order to get into a good school. |
| 0:53.4 | I mean the baby wasn't that interested. |
| 0:54.9 | I can't imagine. |
| 0:55.6 | No, didn't care. |
| 0:57.0 | And as best I can tell, literally no one in the room |
| 1:00.0 | other than the priest believed in God. |
| 1:02.4 | Everyone was just sitting there, |
| 1:04.1 | cosplaying as a Christian, |
| 1:05.6 | for the sake of getting into a good school. |
| 1:07.4 | And in the northwest it is kind of necessary |
| 1:10.1 | because we have so many religious schools. |
| 1:12.1 | There's an awful lot of religious schools. They're all religious basically. |
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