Episode #412

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Alice looks at fenbendazole, the animal anti-parasitic being touted as a possible treatment for cancer, and Mike goes to watch War of the Worlds live on stage.

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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.

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0:00.0	It is Thursday, the 1st of May 2025 in your listening to Skeptics with a K, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking.
0:14.9	Skeptics with a K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society,
0:19.7	a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside
0:23.5	around the UK and internationally.
0:25.8	I'm your host, Mike Hall.
0:27.0	With me today is Marsh.
0:28.1	Hello.
0:28.6	And Alice.
0:29.6	Hello.
0:30.7	So I went to see the War of the Worlds, Jeff Wayne's musical...
0:35.2	Oh, really? Okay.
0:36.0	War of the Worlds, which was on at the Echo Arena,
0:40.0	the Eminus Bank Arena, it's the fucking Echo.
0:42.0	Everyone calls it the Echo, we will call it the Echo forever.
0:45.1	I don't care who sponsors it now.
0:46.3	Long after the Echo is a viable newspaper.
0:49.7	And I've always enjoyed War of the Worlds.
0:51.7	I listened to the album, like the Jeff Wayne musical album.
0:54.6	I enjoyed the book as well, but I listened to the Jeff Wayne album when I was quite little.
0:58.5	My mom had it on tape on my Phillips compact cassette.
1:02.8	My mom had it on that.
1:04.1	So I listened to that when I was quite little.
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