Episode #247
It’s April, you fools! Charging VAT on justice, HAARPing on about climate, and getting hot under the waist-band. Plus space mirrors, albedos, and blue balls. Fertilising the sea, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episodes
Skeptics with a K
Skeptics with a K is the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking from the Merseyside Skeptics Society. Each episode features Mike Hall, Michael Marshall, and Dr Alice Howarth chatting about the things which interest them, often from a skeptical angle.
Episodes
Episode #246
Exfoliating dildos, energetic burps, and stirring food anti-clockwise. Plus medieval pubs, wasps nests, and bad backs. With top hats and badges, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #245
Border control, neck pain, sick days, and Barmy Brussels Bureaucrats. Plus Happy Days, more escape rooms, secret backs, and birthday parties. Trading as a single economic bloc, it’s Skeptics with a K. Get your tickets for MSSX, our tenth anniversary event, at mssx.co.uk With thanks to the ever-mysterious Dr*T
Episode #244
Micro-needling, collagen, gaming YouTube, and the Flat Earth. Plus Eddie Brock, boiling steaks, machine learning, and canine ASMR. Shortening our telomeres, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #243
Small hotels, electromagnetism, copper capsules, and wet hair. Plus love languages, tasty bananas, stairs, and sexy fishy fishy sexy fish sex. It’s a very late night, with Skeptics with a K.
Episode #242
Stronger cells, prostaglandins, the combined pill, and Pope Pius XI. Plus evening primrose oil, Stan & Ollie, vanilla pudding, and handsome John Rock. Taking a seven day break, it’s Skeptics with a K. Get the latest information on our tenth anniversary event, MSSX, at mssx.co.uk . Tickets are available from February 1st.
Episode #241
Quitting cheese, Qikipedia, hormonal stew, and contract research. Plus COMT, broken cafetières, air beds, and oscilloscopes. Happy New Year from Skeptics with a K. Find out more information about MSSX at mssx.co.uk , tickets are available from February 1st.
Episode #240
Richard Attenborough, charitable status, stagnant energy, and Christmas presents. Plus personal anecdotes, burying the lede, bottle caps, and foie gras. Driving in a flat earth taxi, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #239
Secret Santa, Yorkshire Pudding, the Elf on a Shelf, and hibernating in a cave. Plus ruining Christmas, Aldi’s carrot, musical road trips, and vibrating alarm clocks. It’s a Bad PR Christmas run-down from Skeptics with a K!
Episode #238
Tearing apples, parole hearings, social media, and judicial reviews. Plus brightening lamps, magic soap, laddered tights, and conspiracy theories. With a big announcement, it’s Skeptics with a K. If you need to skip through Emma’s discussion about sex offenders, it runs from 0:45:00 to 1:08:10.
Episode #237
Doctor Who, socialised empathy, an overstuffed walrus, and extreme male brains. Plus indulgent milkshakes, Body Worlds, six hundred thousand babies, and the Living Dead at Manchester Morgue. Excited by cars, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #236
Fur envy oil, the Goop medical bag, Vitamin A, and what happened in Australia. Plus Kangaroos, Finnish coasters, and perfume flavoured sweets. Avoiding polar bear liver, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #235
Back pain, blue pills, brain structures, and Blackpool. Plus diving helmets, p-hacking, oversold results, and Doctor Who’s aspect ratio. Speaking via satellite, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #234
Depressed vaginas, space cars, vestibules, and forest ghosts. Plus pickled beetroot, sex therapists, Investment Banking, and vulvodynia. Photographed from the waist down, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #233
In this special episode of Skeptics with a K, Marsh and Alice talk about Good Thinking Society’s in-depth new research into crowd-funded cancer treatments, recently published in the British Medical Journal. And Mike talks about going to the cat cafe.
Episode #232
Zapping cancer, 3000 gallstones, CAR T-cell therapy, and Get Carter. Plus parasites, immunotherapy, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and the resonant frequency of dead flukes. Showing some promise, it’s Skeptics with a K. If you want to volunteer to help at QED, visit qedcon.org/volunteers .To give your nomination for the Skeptic Magazine ‘Ockham’ awards, visit skeptic.org.uk/the-ockham-awards...
Episode #231
Plastic-free July, red aspirin, homeopathy funding, and varicose veins. Plus Joe Pesci, hypnotic medicine, killing turtles, and tea bag stitching. Burying the lede, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #230
Celebrity Big Brother, psychic venues, and the benefits of Green Tea. Plus potato superpowers, police boxes, injured feet, and orthogonal air. Making classic tea from a shrub, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #229
New York City, hunting unicorns, tangible goals, and what happened at NECSS. Plus attentive moths, relationship ladders, the Impossible Burger, and consensual non-monogamy. With love springing forth endlessly from our hearts, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #228
Walking on the beach, grounding rods, hot ankles, and the Monkey. Plus electric blankets, cheap shirts, screen recordings, and plane wi-fi. Covertly listening through your phone, it’s Skeptics with a K. There are fewer than fifty tickets for the final QED of this decade remaining! Get yours now at qedcon.org .
Episode #227
High blood pressure, cannabinoids, days of the week, and high blood pressure. Plus complicated questions, sea lions, high blood pressure, and high blood pressure. More research needed, from Skeptics with a K. To get your tickets for the last QED of this decade, head over to qedcon.org .
Episode #226
Aircraft with attitude, homeopathy prescriptions, twenty minutes walk, and flat planes. Plus Alice’s new job, arguable grounds, Mike’s Sega Mega Drive, and the Mighty Cheese. Listen to Marsh singing video game music in Skeptics with a K. Get your tickets for QED now, as they’re running out fast: qedcon.org !
Episode #225
Debating Flat Earthers, placebo sleep, mountain walks, and long commutes. Plus serial addition, friendly physicists, controlling your data, and attracting crime. Wandering the streets of Birmingham whilst high, it’s Skeptics with a K. There is still time to donate to our sponsored walk, at justgiving.com/crowdfunding/merseysideskeptics-mss . And remember QED tickets are still available, get yours at qedcon.org ....
Episode #224
In the last of our three epic specials, Marsh and Alice talk about the Cosmic Egg, a model of the universe presented at the Flat Earth Convention in Birmingham. If you want to donate to the Merseyside Skeptics Charity Walk, you can do through our Just Giving page .
Episode #223
In this, the second of three epic special episodes of Skeptics with a K, Alice and Marsh talk about what happened when they attended the Flat Earth Convention in Birmingham, and why scientists should play more Pac-Man.
Episode #222
In this special extended episode of Skeptics with a K, Mike, Marsh, and Alice are joined by special guests Emma and Laurie to discuss their trip to see professional conspiracy theorist and former sports broadcaster David Icke, at a live show in Liverpool*
Episode #221
Classical conditioning, Irish referenda, lavender oil, and pro-life rhetoric. Plus Ophelia Cabs, blastocysts, and a visit to the farm. With the latest on QED 2018, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #220
Revitalising water, respiratory tract infections, homeopathy, and unnecessary antibiotics. Plus the Revenge of Frankenstein, hydrogen bonds, and mouth feel. Is this just nonsense? It’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #219
Acromial bone spurs, cancer awareness, pink beer, and adipocytes. Plus terracotta, physiotherapy, body shaming, and just air. Making you feel better without altering the underlying illness, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Episode #218
Haitian pirates, ultra-processed foods, constipated cats, and Loose Women. Plus inappropriate cheering, disappointing celebrities, and the Lovely Eggs.Unknown in the domestic kitchen, it’s Skeptics with a K.