SIO118: Intercontinental Culture Wars, with Michael Marshall

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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***For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, visit HelloFresh.com and enter seriouspod30! Michael Marshall is the host of Be Reasonable and co-host of Skeptics with a K. He is heavily involved in the UK Skeptic movement, and has been somewhat alarmed by the state of movement atheism in the US. We talk about some of the differences and possible reasons for them. Later in the show, he takes us through a very difficult article he co-wrote about Jonathan Bryan - a child with severe brain damage who seems to be able to read and write at a precocious level... but only using facilitated communication. It's a sensitive story but one where skepticism is sorely needed. Here's the awful, racist Sargon clip I referenced. Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support the show at seriouspod.com/support! Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email thomas@seriouspod.com

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Hello Fresh for $30 off your first week of Hello Fresh,
0:05.5	visit Hello Fresh.com and enter promo code Serious Pod 30. You're listening to Serious Inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode. I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:44.1	All right joining me for this episode is past guest of the show Michael Marshall.
0:49.3	He is of course the host of Be Reasonable, co-host of Skeptics with a K, co-founder and Vice President of the
0:56.0	Mercy Side Skeptics Society. Needless to say he has a lot of experience with skepticism as a movement, but not in the US.
1:04.9	And that's what we talk about.
1:07.3	We go into some of the differences as we see it
1:10.4	between movements in the US and the UK. And there's a lot there to talk about and then also we touch on a really interesting
1:17.2	article that he co-wrote we'll get into it in the interview so with that being said it's all there let's get over to it Marsh, welcome back to the show. I'm so glad to have you here today.
1:41.0	Thanks for having me back. It's been a little while since you chatted, so yeah, always a pleasure to chat it.
1:46.0	Yeah, I mean time flies.
1:47.0	How long has it been?
1:48.0	Time flies.
1:49.0	I thought it hadn't been that long, but it's probably just having a baby and just thinking about
1:52.8	not the music.
1:54.3	I have no idea.
1:55.3	Also the world is going so much faster these days that I have absolutely no idea
1:58.7	when anything happened anyway.
2:00.7	Yeah, everything is just accelerating as we start to spiral.
2:04.0	It could have been anywhere from like a month to two years ago and I wouldn't really know the difference.
2:10.0	But at any rate, it's great to have you back. I think we've got a lot we could talk about.
2:15.8	I want to touch on it. I just saw hot off the presses here as of the time we're recording.
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