Episode #416
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Alice investigates the sudden hostility to 'seed oils' amongst social media influencers, and how it can be a gateway to more sinister things. Plus, Mike's neighbour can't remember the name of her dog.
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| 1:21.8 | It is Thursday the 29th of May 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with AK, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. |
| 1:26.7 | Skeptics with the K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, |
| 1:28.1 | a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. |
| 1:32.9 | I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. |
| 1:38.3 | So we've been doing this podcast for a long time. We have been doing it for a long time. |
| 1:42.3 | It's a little while now. Since we started in 2009 |
| 1:45.2 | and I joined in 2013, we have recorded almost 420 episodes. And half of them mentioned Doctor Who. |
| 1:52.4 | Half a mention Doctor Who. We only say cunt on 22 of them, I think it is. |
| 1:58.2 | 23. That is because there was a time that we made a concerted decision to stop using that word on |
| 2:05.0 | the show. |
| 2:05.5 | Oh, really? |
| 2:05.8 | Even though that we, do you not remember this conversation? |
| 2:07.8 | So we'd had, because we have a broad international listenership, we'd said, look, this |
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