Episode #392
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
For the first episode back after QED, Alice talks about the effects of self-talk and Mike investigates claims made by the author of a new book on the 'Nocebo Effect'. Meanwhile, Mike visits HMP Dorchester with Emma.
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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 7th of November 24 and you're listening to Skeptics with the K, |
| 0:18.2 | the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with the K is a production of the Merseyside Skeptics Society a K, the podcast for Science, Reason and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:21.4 | Skeptics with A K is a production of the Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization |
| 0:25.7 | for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm your host, Mike Hall. |
| 0:31.7 | With me today is Marsh. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. |
| 0:33.5 | And Alice. |
| 0:34.3 | Hello. |
| 0:35.1 | And it feels like a thousand years since we've done a show. |
| 0:37.9 | It is so long |
| 0:39.4 | because we did the QD Live show. |
| 0:41.1 | We were just talking about this before. |
| 0:42.4 | Yeah, that was two weeks ago. |
| 0:44.4 | It feels like a long time ago. |
| 0:45.4 | The last year we got together. |
| 0:47.0 | It was more than two weeks ago. |
| 0:48.4 | It was two and a bit weeks ago. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, two weeks, three days or something like that. It's nearly two and a half weeks ago. Just shy of two and a half weeks. |
| 0:57.0 | And then the recording before that was like a month ago, |
| 1:00.0 | and that was the one where listeners will remember I was there saying, |
| 1:03.0 | I've had my vaccine, I don't feel well, don't worry, it's not COVID. |
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