Episode #400
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It's episode 400! Mike looks at a recent investigation which says that looking at an original work of art is more emotionally impactful than looking at a copy of the same work. Meanwhile, Alice tries to go to the doctor.
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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 6th of February 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with the K, |
| 0:12.0 | the podcast for Science, Reason, and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:15.1 | Skeptics with a K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, |
| 0:19.9 | a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the |
| 0:21.4 | promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm your host, Mike Hall. |
| 0:26.8 | With me today is Marsh. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello. |
| 0:28.5 | And Alice. |
| 0:29.3 | Hello. |
| 0:30.3 | I can walk again. |
| 0:32.6 | Okay. |
| 0:32.9 | This is like, this is, this is, this is, what's funny is. |
| 0:36.3 | So I did my back in, but I did my back in about three days |
| 0:40.2 | after we recorded, like, the show, what will now be four weeks ago. And I've been completely |
| 0:47.0 | fucked since. And so this is now remarkable that I am like, sitting up bright, standing, |
| 0:52.7 | walking fine. I genuinely, this is a worst flower-up I've had in such a long time. |
| 0:57.5 | Actually, I woke up on the Thursday morning feeling a bit twinge in my low back, |
| 1:01.3 | like I quite often get these days, and was like, oh, it's fine. |
| 1:04.4 | And then I sat in meetings for four hours, and then I couldn't stand up straight after |
| 1:08.5 | that. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah. |
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