Episode #451
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Marsh reads through the Epstein Files, and the lessons and pitfalls skeptics might encounter within... including how he came to appear in the latest documents. Meanwhile, Alice returns from a visit to The Hague.
Note: This episode contains references to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, including references to child sex abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 12th of February, 2026, and you are listening to Skeptics with a K, the podcast for |
| 0:13.1 | science, reason, and critical thinking. Skeptics with a K is produced by skeptic media in |
| 0:17.8 | association with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK |
| 0:24.6 | and internationally. I am your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh and Alice. |
| 0:31.5 | So we started doing what we've been up to at the end of the show. I'm going to do it in the middle |
| 0:36.2 | of this story. The middle of the show, good. |
| 0:38.2 | That's a little throw forward. |
| 0:39.2 | Why not? Mix it up. So two weeks ago, the US Department of Justice published more than three million documents from the Epstein Library, colloquially known as the Epstein files. I'm sure you both guys both saw it. Yeah. Yeah. You did see this. Is there still material left to come? |
| 0:55.1 | Yes. |
| 0:55.8 | I'll come down in a second, actually. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.3 | So as a result, internet Yeah. Yeah. Is there still material left to come? |
| 0:55.1 | Yes. I'll come down in a second, actually. Yeah. |
| 0:57.2 | So as a result, international headlines have focused on the crimes in the files, |
| 1:01.8 | but also the litany of wealthy, powerful, and well-connected, almost exclusively men who |
| 1:08.3 | circled in Epstein's orbit and then indulge themselves with, at the very least, his financial support and luxury lifestyle. That is the least of which they were indulged themselves with. It's enough to make you a conspiracy theorist, isn't it? It very much is. It very much is. And that's one of the reasons I want to cover this, actually, is because someone got in touch to say, how do I make head or tails about what's true and what's not? |
| 1:28.5 | Among those headlines have been lurid claims about public figures. |
| 1:32.3 | Some of those claims true, some of them false, as rumor mills and conspiracies channels light |
| 1:36.7 | up with screen grabs of the files revelations. |
| 1:40.4 | And I'm sure you've seen plenty of those on your journeys around the internet in the last |
| 1:43.4 | couple of weeks. |
| 1:44.4 | So I forget to understand the impact of the Epstein files, it's first important to know their genesis. |
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