Episode #407
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Alice looks again at the hand held relaxation device "Calm Carry", and the people behind the product. Meanwhile, Marsh goes on Malaysian radio, and Mike is feeling old for his age.
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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 27th of March 2025 in your listening to Skeptics with a K, the podcast for |
| 0:12.5 | science, reason and critical thinking. Skeptics with a K is produced by skeptic media in association |
| 0:17.8 | with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the |
| 0:21.4 | promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside, around the UK and internationally. I'm your |
| 0:26.4 | host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. I had a very weird |
| 0:32.1 | experience today. Right. Okay. So I, I don't know if you saw, maybe you got the email or maybe I |
| 0:36.3 | just got the email. No, it went to all of us. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, we got invited by a Malaysian, I got invited by a Malaysian radio station to come and talk about conspiracy theory. |
| 0:44.8 | Yes. |
| 0:45.0 | So they'd had somebody who was involved in a radio station who experienced someone talking about the flat earth, |
| 0:50.0 | like the local school or something like that, just like a parent at the gates kind of thing. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah. And got in touch with their colleagues at radio station to say, how do you deal with this? |
| 0:57.5 | How do you deal with people who believe the world is flat? |
| 0:59.4 | How do you deal with people who don't believe in vaccines and things? |
| 1:02.5 | And they had a chat about that. |
| 1:03.9 | And then they went looking to find out how, like, find someone who could talk about that. And so this morning, or like 6pm Malaysian time |
| 1:12.0 | in the evening of Monday, as we were recording, |
| 1:14.8 | I was live on air on BFM Malaysia to talk about that. |
| 1:18.7 | And it was really interesting. |
| 1:19.5 | I mean, he played the little clip, |
| 1:20.4 | and then he asked me some really good questions. |
| 1:21.9 | We had a really lovely chat. |
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