Episode #452
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Mike looks at why there are =so many spurious equals signs littering = the Epstein Files. Note: This episode contains references to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, including passing references to child sex abuse.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday the 19th of February, 2026, and you're listening to Skeptics with a K, |
| 0:12.8 | the podcast for Science, Reason, and Critical Thinking. |
| 0:15.9 | Skeptics for the K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside |
| 0:20.0 | Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skept with the Merseyside Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation |
| 0:22.0 | for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm your host, Mike Hall. |
| 0:28.0 | With me today is Marsh and Alice. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello. |
| 0:31.9 | So last episode, we talked a lot about the Epstein files |
| 0:36.1 | and some of the conspiracy theories that are inside |
| 0:38.3 | the Epstein files, like that one of the earliest conspiracies around Epstein was that |
| 0:43.9 | apparently his death was faked. |
| 0:45.6 | Yes. |
| 0:45.9 | And it wasn't, it wasn't really, didn't really do a suicide. |
| 0:48.8 | Instead, he was murdered. |
| 0:50.5 | That one's been around since pretty much the day he was killed. |
| 0:54.2 | You know, the day he died was killed. |
| 0:56.4 | Shows that that makes it sound like I think it's true, which I don't... |
| 1:00.2 | Was killed by his own hand. |
| 1:01.6 | By his own hand, absolutely, yeah. |
| 1:03.7 | And when building the case against Epstein, the FBI and the Department of Justice |
| 1:08.0 | gathered these millions and millions of pages of documents, |
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