You just realized your business needed to hire someone yesterday. So how do you find amazing candidates fast?

Simple. Just use Indeed. Stop wasting time with other job sites that aren't getting your post seen.

With Indeed's sponsored jobs, your post jumps to the top getting in front of the right candidates fast.

And it works. According to Indeed

data, sponsor jobs get 45% more applications than non-sponsored ones. Join the 3.5 million employers

worldwide who are hiring great talent with Indeed. Best part? No monthly subscriptions, no long-term contracts, and you only pay for results.

There's no need to wait any longer. Speed up your hiring right now with Indeed. And listeners of the show

will get a 100-pound sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at Indeed.com slash show. Just go to Indeed.com slash show right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. Indeed.com slash show. Terms and conditions apply.

It is Thursday the 4th of September 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with a K,

the podcast for science, reason, and critical thinking.

Skeptics for the K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. A lot of my inspirations for where I'm finding stories of late come from ads that I've seen on Facebook. And as sources go, that's not ideal. Partly because it means I'm finding stories of late, come from ads that I've seen on Facebook.

And as sources go, that's not ideal. Part of because it means I'm fucking using Facebook. And I try not to use Facebook. The only time I ever really use Facebook is to share this show when this show gets published. And also to share the daily articles that we put up from the Skeptic magazine. So people, I'm sure, should be aware that every single day of the week, pretty much we put up a new story in the morning from the Skeptic magazine. And on the Friday, we even have a podcast. But I don't think we've ever mentioned the podcast. Maybe we have once or twice, but it's like a digest of, maybe I mentioned the last couple of shows, but yeah, Friday digest of various shows from The Skeptic magazine. And so I go into Facebook to see it. But it's also not ideal because it means I only see the woo ads that Facebook has decided that I want to see, the ones that I think. Because much like me, they've seen your profile and think you're a woo. That's exactly what happens. But a specific type of woo, that's the problem. Okay. Because the more time that I spend clicking on, for example, a lion's main mushroom ad from British supplements. You're feeding that algorithm. Exactly. Or like supplements from Lignosis that claim they can cure C-O-P-D, the more Facebook will think, ah, those are the ads that you like to see. I'll keep giving you that. So now I see Lignosis ads all the bloody time in there.

And yeah, I do want to. the more Facebook will think, ah, those are the ads that you like to see. Yeah. I'll keep giving you that.

So now I see Lignorces ads all the bloody time in there.

And yeah, I do want to see them, but I also want to see a broader range of the dodgy products and services that are being advertised on Facebook. Thank you very much. I don't want to just start going down a supplement pathway, not least because Alice will accuse me of musling in on her turn.

And of course, you know, there's a limit to how much I can train Facebook to even show me

the bullshit that I want to see because it's got information on who I am and it's got assumptions

on who it thinks I am. And as a result, the sort of bullshit that is going to send my way is going to be massively skewed by whatever picture it already has, regardless of what clicking that I'm going to do. I'm not going to see the products that are promising to make my periods pain free. They're not going to show. They're very likely to show me that. Well, no, exactly. As we talked about a couple of shows ago, when I was talking about the new device that I'm testing out, I see nothing but ads for that. But everybody I speak to has never even heard of it.

Never seen them. Similarly, I'm not going to get the products that are promising to ease my menopause symptoms or to potty train my kids with ease. Facebook kind of has me in a box and it's only going to show me ads that

are at least adjacent to that box. And not actually necessarily in the bog, but certainly adjacent

to the box. And that's fine because, you know, I'm clearly not struggling to find things on

Facebook to talk about. But I also don't want the content of this show to be too heavily

...