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Skeptics with a K

Episode #427

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Marsh looks at a supplement pedlar from the UK, attempting to skirt the regulations with thinly disguised claims. Meanwhile, Alice and Marsh go to Blackpool where Marsh goes to get ice cream.

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conditions apply. It is Thursday the 14th of August 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with

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skeptic media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society,

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a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK

1:32.8

and internationally. I'm your host, Michael. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice.

1:38.2

Hello. So we talk a lot about supplements on this show. We talk a lot about... I reckon if you go back and look at our back catalogue and added up like themes and topics for every episode, supplements would be by far the majority. So we have the biggest set of pieces to it. So I think... I'm not sure I agree with that, but what I would say is... Depends how you categorise it, of course. Yeah, but what I would say is what we've taught more over the last couple of years than maybe we did in the first decade of the short entirely. And it feels like that is the way that things have shifted, like the winds of boom. Oh, yeah, it's not about us necessarily. It's about what is fashionable in the pseudoscience world. and so it just keeps coming up because it's cheap to make. And so so many different companies come up with a different version of another supplement. Yeah, exactly that. It's trendy. It's big business. And it's become trendy over the last few years. So I don't think if you went back through the entirety of our catalogue, you'd see that supplements is the most. No, but certainly the last few years, basically. And they're big

2:34.3

business. You know, then in terms of the health or alternative medicine type of claims you're going

2:39.3

to see, it feels like they massively overshadow these days, like homeopathy, chiropractic,

2:43.9

and osteopathic combined. We barely talk about any of those three things anymore.

2:48.2

Because those things are done. We've talked about them enough in the sense.

2:52.0

We've covered them well and they're still used and they're still fashionable and they go

2:56.3

through peaks and troughs of trend.

2:59.4

But they're less trendy than supplements.

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