Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber.

I am sitting here with Anich Zinski, James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray.

And once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts

from the last seven days and in no particular order, here we go.

Starting with you, James Harkin.

Okay, my fact this week is that the fear of lifts can be cured by starving the subject

and forcing them to eat all of their meals in lifts.

How long do you have to eat all your meals in a lift for?

I think they only did it for a day or two, but then they checked back on this person a

few years later and it worked.

And this is in an old paper from 1973 that I stumbled across this week and the paper's

called a brief treatment of elevator phobia and it's by S. Brintwick and Leslie Sol-Yom.

So what's the idea?

You would sit inside an elevator and you'd be distracted.

So what happens is what you do is you've got someone who's scared of elevations on

lifts and you say to them, you're not allowed to eat for 24 hours and they go, okay, I'm

not going to eat and you say, you're not allowed to drink water either and they say, okay.

And then you say to them, okay, well, you can have something to eat now, you can have

some conflites or whatever, but you can only have it if you're inside that lift.

And so they have to go in the lift because they're so hungry and then I reckon just because

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