Episode #435
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Marsh drops down a rabbit hole when he starts to look into the makers of 'Ozempatch', which claims to shift stubborn belly fat. Meanwhile, Mike tries to book a massage.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 9th of October 2025, and you are listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:11.5 | K, the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking. |
| 0:15.7 | Skeptics with A K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside |
| 0:19.4 | Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK |
| 0:25.2 | and internationally. I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello. Sorry, I just put my coffee down there, the coffee that I poured two weeks from now. |
| 0:38.5 | So I don't have a lot of spare time these days. |
| 0:41.7 | No. |
| 0:42.3 | So, like, in my week, I work for good thinking full-time. |
| 0:45.1 | We plan QED, which is only a couple of weeks away from being there, our last ever QED. |
| 0:49.8 | We do this show on a fortnightly... |
| 0:52.0 | We record every couple of weeks, and then the show goes out on a weekly basis. |
| 0:55.5 | I do the Norrugan experience every week. We run the Mersaidside Skeptic Society. So we do a talk every month and a board meeting every week. And on top of that, I've got a wife and a challenging situation with a mother-in-law and various other stuff in my life. So all in all, my time in my life is a bit squeezed of late, a bit tricky. |
| 1:12.9 | I think we're all feeling that. |
| 1:14.1 | Yeah. And it means I don't have as much time for as many of the relaxing pursuits that I'd like to fill my life with. I don't have as much time for that. And by relaxing pursuits, you mean going to woo conferences. Going to woo conferences? It's not because I could do that for my day job. I want to do more of that. And by relaxing pursuits, you mean going to Woo conferences. Going to Woo conferences? |
| 1:28.4 | Not because I could do that for my day job. |
| 1:30.2 | I want to do more of that. Oh, God, we missed out in some really important ones recently. We did miss out. We did miss out. Some really good ones. Have you considered a dopamine fast? I thought about it, but I don't know very much about it yet. Okay. that's maybe something we could look into on a |
| 1:42.5 | on a future show. |
| 1:43.8 | Alice, maybe you could do some research on that. |
| 1:46.2 | For example, I've not touched my PSVR in, yet. Okay, that's maybe something we could look into on a future show. Alice, maybe you could do some research on that. |
| 1:46.0 | For example, I've not touched my PSVR in months. |
| 1:49.1 | I've not turned the PlayStation on in months. |
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