Episode #425
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Mike looks at the ramifications and limitations of the Online Safety Bill, which is responsible for the increase in age verification checks appearing online. Meanwhile, Marsh watches the Euros and Mike goes to see Superman.
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Mixed and edited by Morgan Clarke.
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| 1:05.5 | conditions apply. It is Thursday the 31st of July 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with a K, |
| 1:19.0 | the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. |
| 1:22.3 | Skeptics with a K is produced by skeptic media in association with the Merseyside |
| 1:25.9 | Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism the Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit |
| 1:27.7 | organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. |
| 1:33.3 | I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. Well, it's actually |
| 1:39.4 | the time of the year where we ask people for their nominations for our Occam Awards. |
| 1:44.3 | The Occam Awards. The Occam Awards, these have been going for a long long long time. |
| 1:48.9 | Since before we even took over, the Skeptic Magazine as editors and published in the magazine, |
| 1:54.0 | they're there to celebrate the very best in skeptical work over the last year. |
| 1:58.6 | So we asked for nominations, so to who you think has done some |
| 2:00.9 | excellent work, where have they had a wide reach, where have they had an impact? Maybe they've |
| 2:06.3 | even changed something for the better, actually have a tangible impact in the world. Who's doing |
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