Episode #459
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Alice looks at the prevalence of cancer misinformation on social media and the effects that may be having on cancer patients. Meanwhile, Marsh visits Durham cathedral.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday, the 9th of April, 2026, and you're listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:11.5 | K, the podcast for science, reason, and critical thinking. |
| 0:15.0 | Skeptics with the K is produced by Skeptic Media in association with the Merseyside |
| 0:18.8 | Skeptic Society, a non-profit organisation for the promotion |
| 0:21.9 | of scientific skepticism on Merseyside around the UK and internationally. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm your host, my call. |
| 0:27.0 | With me today is Marsh. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello. |
| 0:28.8 | And Alice. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello. |
| 0:31.3 | You might remember that a few years ago, my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer. |
| 0:35.7 | Chip a start. |
| 0:36.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | Just to really piss off our listeners who think that I complain too much. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm not sure if I actually gave much of an update on the show, |
| 0:45.4 | but she ended up having triple negative breast cancer, |
| 0:48.5 | which is a less common form of breast cancer, |
| 0:50.6 | and can be quite quick, growing and aggressive. |
| 0:55.0 | Can we sometimes consider the bad breast cancer. Well be quite quick, growing and aggressive, can we sometimes, like, |
| 0:57.0 | consider the bad, the bad breast cancer. |
| 0:59.4 | Well, a double negative would be a positive again. |
| 1:00.8 | Triple negative. |
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