Episode #405
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Marsh looks at the influencer campaign which is 'redefining energy' (and won't leave us alone), while Mike talks about renewed media interest in the Shroud of Turin.
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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 13th of March 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:10.8 | AK, the podcast for Science, reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:14.4 | Skeptics with AK is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside |
| 0:18.2 | Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism |
| 0:22.4 | on Merseyside, around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm your host, Mike Hall. |
| 0:27.0 | With me today is Marsh and Alice. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello. |
| 0:30.1 | So Alice, you haven't brought your fidget toys. |
| 0:32.3 | I haven't brought any fidget toys. |
| 0:33.7 | So you're just going to tune out of this recording entirely. |
| 0:37.1 | No, I don't bring, I'm not a very fidget toy person. |
| 0:42.0 | I don't necessarily find that they scratch the itch as well as they could do. |
| 0:46.9 | But I do know that I'm particularly itchy today. |
| 0:50.2 | So I am looking for things to fidget with and I am worried I'm going to zone out. |
| 0:54.2 | So I'm opening Solitaire on my phone to give me something to just mindlessly tune my brain |
| 0:58.8 | onto so that I can listen. |
| 1:00.8 | There's a pack of cards if you want to shuffle a pack of cards. |
| 1:03.2 | I do. |
| 1:03.6 | When I'm on holiday, I will sit in the pub playing Solitaire version of Patience. |
| 1:08.9 | Not Solitaire, actually, it's patience. It's one of the many, many versions |
| 1:12.7 | of patients that is quite contained and quick and mindless. |
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