Episode #434
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Alice investigates new reports that long distance running is somehow associated with increased cancer risk. Meanwhile, the team has the latest news on the final QED.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 2nd of October 2025, and you're listening to Skeptics with a K, |
| 0:11.4 | the podcast for Science, Reason, and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:14.7 | Skeptics with a K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, |
| 0:19.6 | 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. And it's October, folks, which means QEDE is this month. Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. Already dark outside. I'm looking at the window. |
| 0:38.1 | It's dark because it's October. We are recording quite late in the day. Don't tell you that. It is 10 past 8 p.m. So we're recording late, but also we're recording quite early, given that this is October 2nd. So like... It's not that early. No, but like... No, I know. it's quite early, but it's also like |
| 0:54.4 | the show two weeks from now. |
| 0:56.5 | Like, that means it's quite early, but it's also like... |
| 0:54.6 | The show, two weeks from now. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.1 | That means it's two weeks from now that we're in October. That's terrifying. Yeah, that's true. Absolutely fucking petrifying. Well, we can half even, yeah. I got the new iPhone. Did I mention I got the new iPhone? I didn't know there was one. I got the new iPhone. |
| 1:06.9 | Look, look, look, have a bash on that. |
| 1:09.1 | Yeah, but it's... |
| 1:09.9 | It's very thin. |
| 1:10.7 | It is tiny. |
| 1:12.0 | It is so thin. |
| 1:13.4 | So breakable. |
| 1:14.3 | It's made thin. It is tiny. |
| 1:12.0 | It is so thin. |
| 1:13.2 | So breakable. |
| 1:14.3 | It's made of titanium. It's a robust. I don't like it. I drop my phone too much. I wouldn't want a phone that thing. Yeah. No, I liked it. I went to the Apple store to get the phone. and as I was standing in the line, |
| 1:25.0 | somebody from the Apple store came up to me and said, |
| 1:26.7 | oh, are you, Mike? |
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