Episode #417
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Mike examines a new paper which claims that open label placebos are an effective treatment for PMS, and Alice and Marsh visit Barcelona with the Skeptics in the Pub Online team.
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| 1:32.3 | I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. |
| 1:34.3 | Hello. |
| 1:35.3 | And Alice. |
| 1:36.3 | It's fucking June. When did that happen? |
| 1:38.3 | It's June. |
| 1:39.3 | Just fucking halfway through the year. |
| 1:40.3 | But you know what? It doesn't even feel like June. |
| 1:42.3 | It doesn't. It doesn't feel like it's been that long. |
| 1:45.6 | If someone said to me it's been six months since New Year, I say bullshit. |
| 1:49.0 | I'd say it feels like it's mid-April, mid-May at worst, rather. |
| 1:55.3 | Anyway, we'll start off today with an email from Susan, not from Sudan, which is what my phone decided to auto-correct this to. |
| 2:03.1 | Do you know Susan isn't in Sudan? |
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