CEASE therapy, nutritional imbalances, Royal succession and salty livers. Plus musical theatre, leptospirosis, and the Women’s World Cup. Delivering drinks in a paper bag, it’s Skeptics with a K. You can help stop CEASE therapists who claim vaccines are dangerous and that homeopathy can “cure” autism by contributing to Good Thinking’s legal fees here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/gts-cease-psa/
Jul 11, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast Planning permission, fish healing, Pikachu hats, and water fasting. Plus sleepy dachshunds, composting humans, and touring Birkenhead. Literally in a different country, it’s Skeptics with a K. It’s your last chance to get tickets for MSSX, just £29 for a full day of science, reason, and critical thinking , celebrating ten years of Skeptics with a K!
Jun 27, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast Hyperventilating, DIY, chimpanzee beds, and football parades. Plus breaking blinding, hypocapnea, role models, and feasting on fish. Doing zips up with our teeth, it’s Skeptics with a K. Get your tickets for MSSX while you still can! Just £29 for a full day of science, reason and critical thinking, celebrating 10 years of the Merseyside Skeptics Society.
Jun 13, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast Lie detectors, HPV, pregnancy, and llamas. Plus Earth Domes, Frank Spencer, and seven-day creation. Cracking the Crystal Maze, it’s Skeptics with a K. Get your tickets for MSSX today. Featuring Simon Singh, Britt Hermes, Emma McClure, Chris French, Meirion Jones, Dave Alnwick, and our own Dr Alice Howarth! July 6th. Liner Hotel, Liverpool. Be there!
May 30, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast Pokémon brains, caffeine power, vaccine denial, and solar cells. Plus nana-wire, birthdays, weasel words, and red wine. Trying not to make a fuss, it’s Skeptics with a K.
May 16, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast Horse chiropractic, tectonic plates, scouting with tanks, and acupuncture anaesthesia. Plus the Palace of Versailles, Dalekmania, regeneration, and creepy crawling babies. Just as good on Street View, it’s Skeptics with a K.
May 02, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast B12, Jack the Ripper, Master Masons, and eye bees. Plus American accents, Satanic hands, and the Wilderness Years. Time travelling in a flat, it’s Skeptics with a K.
Apr 18, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Apr 04, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Mar 21, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast 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
Mar 07, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Feb 21, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Feb 07, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Jan 24, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Jan 10, 2019•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Dec 27, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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!
Dec 13, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Nov 29, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Nov 15, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Nov 01, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Oct 18, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Oct 04, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Sep 20, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Sep 06, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Aug 23, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Aug 09, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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.
Jul 26, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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 .
Jul 12, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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 .
Jun 28, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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 !
Jun 14, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ....
May 31, 2018•Transcript available on Metacast