Episode #389
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Alice, Mike, and Marsh are joined by special guest Emma, who talks about human egg donation and the people who think it should be stopped. Marsh talks about the prolific volume of news articles from Mercola.com, and Alice looks at the new wellness trend of transdermal patches for 'energy', 'dreams', and 'stress'.
If you want to donate to Emma's double marathon in support of the Prison Reform Trust, you can donate at justgiving.com/page/emma-mcclure-the-long-stretch
Tickets for QED 2024 are still available at qedcon.org, where you can see a live episode of Skeptics with a K, alongside InKredulous, Loremen, and the Body of Evidence.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It is |
| 0:13.7 | Thursday the 26 of September 2024 and you're listening to Skeptics with the |
| 0:18.8 | Kay the podcast for science reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the Kay is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, |
| 0:25.0 | a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseys |
| 0:29.0 | around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host, Mike Hall Hall with me today is Marsh. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello Alice. Hello and special guest Emma. |
| 0:36.8 | Hello. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello Emma. Hi. How are you doing? |
| 0:39.5 | I got my flu job today. |
| 0:40.9 | Oh, okay. I'd like to get my flu jab just because I have to go to |
| 0:44.4 | prisons and hospitals and things that seemed a sensible thing to do. |
| 0:47.3 | To protect your vulnerable. But I so I run to my I run to my flu jab |
| 0:52.1 | appointment. |
| 0:53.0 | Running there is better than running back. |
| 0:55.0 | I ran back as well but I've got a lot I'm doing a lot of training at the moment for something that I will come on to. |
| 1:00.0 | But I went to my flu job appointment obviously having exercised and the lady that was doing my job said |
| 1:05.9 | oh if you're doing some exercise and I was like yeah I ran here I'm going to run back and she was like oh that's |
| 1:11.1 | interesting and then she paused for a little, but then she went, |
| 1:14.7 | do you do like 10Ks or half marathons? |
| 1:17.7 | And see, this is where I wish I could have asked |
| 1:20.0 | more neurotypical people, I guess, |
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