Episode #418
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Marsh outlines his advice for being a skeptical investigator and journalist, and what we can learn from visiting pseudoscience events. Meanwhile, Alice tries to book a dogsitter.
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| 1:18.5 | the podcast for Science, reason, and Critical Thinking. |
| 1:21.6 | Skeptics with a K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside |
| 1:25.1 | Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the |
| 1:27.9 | promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. I'm your |
| 1:32.8 | host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. So one of the things we talk |
| 1:38.1 | about fairly often on this show is our love of attending weird events. We went to see David |
| 1:42.9 | I giving a four-hour lecture in Southport. |
| 1:45.4 | We spent a weekend at the Flat Earth Conference and a different weekend at Lynn McTaggart's |
| 1:49.3 | Get Well Conference. |
| 1:50.8 | We've been to Gerson Therapy lectures and Q&On seminars and psychic shows and anti-vact rallies |
| 1:56.1 | and 15-minute city protests and countless mind-body spirit events. |
| 2:00.5 | It's one of my favorite things to do. |
| 2:01.8 | I absolutely love it. It's something up mixed. I think also it's a bit makes our show fairly unique. |
| 2:06.7 | I don't think there's many shows out there in that we actually, these days, there's not many shows |
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