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Episode #166

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Old MacDonald, field archery, vets, and homeopathy. Plus Zika virus, hectares, the Spice Girls, and listener questions. Dismissed by a peer of the realm, it’s Skeptics with a K.Sign the petition to blacklist homeopathy for animal care at change.org.

Feb 11, 2016

Episode #165

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Quantum Bioinformation, cannabinoids, Ruth Rendell, and crystal meth. Plus happy cells, online shopping, Dumfries, and LL Cool J. On all-new equipment, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jan 28, 2016

Episode #164

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Fire in Dubai, scalar energy, herpes simplex, and laminine supplements. Plus blacksmiths, St Bernadette, and Killer Daltons. Well heeled and well bred, it’s Skeptics with a K. And apologies for the poor sound quality. Again.Support the MSS, our work, and all of our podcasts by makinga monthly contribution via Patreon.

Jan 14, 2016

Episode #163

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In this ridiculous and overlong episode of Skeptics with a K, Mike, Marsh, and Alice are joined by special guest host Laurie from the Merseyside Skeptics Society to talk about what happened at the public homeopathy consultation by Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group.Add your voice to the consultation process at http://www.liverpooltalkshealth.info/homeopathy.

Dec 17, 2015

Episode #162

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Allergies, magnets, negative ions, and bad bacteria. Plus infra-red photons, ketosis, and dreamy bollocks. Drinking anything handed to us, it’s Skeptics with a K.Have your say on the Liverpool Homeopathy consultation at www.liverpooltalkshealth.info/homeopathy. All contributions welcomed (even those outside of Liverpool: simply skip the questions that are Liverpool-specific, they are non-essential).Support the show and Merseyside Skeptics by donating via Patreon: http://patreon.com/merseyskeptics

Dec 3, 2015

Episode #161

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Listener questions, more about homeopathy, and Marsh on the TV, Plus empathy, cheese twists, losing your shit, and skeptic fatigue. Looking a shambles, it’s Skeptics with a K.Support the show and Merseyside Skeptics by donating via Patreon: http://patreon.com/merseyskeptics

Nov 19, 2015

Episode #160

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Bacon, sausages, plutonium, and HUMAN DNA. Plus sexy drivers, rude commuters, boring dieters, and insuring your shoes. With issues not related to ketchup, mustard or relish… it’s Skeptics with a K!Support the MSS, our work and all of our podcasts by making a monthly contribution via Patreon.

Nov 5, 2015

Episode #159

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Coca-cola, spice cake, nail polish, and Schedule 1 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc.) Regulations 2004. Plus tales from Florida, tales from Italy, Alice getting drunk, and Back to the Future Day. It’s a ridiculous, overlong, and unedited episode of Skeptics with a K. We’re sorry.

Oct 22, 2015

Episode #158

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, migrant bees, surgical instruments, and sleep paralysis. Plus Alzheimer’s, pesticides, Doctor Who, and genetic engineering. Who would fabricate news stories just to get clicks? Certainly not Skeptics with a K.

Oct 8, 2015

Episode #157

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Hello Listeners. I hope you can hear me, because if you can’t we’re in trouble! In this accidental special episode of Skeptics with a K, Marsh talks about what happened when he went to see Peter Popoff in London earlier this year.

Sep 24, 2015

Episode #156

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Slippers, collagen, football, and boiled eggs. Plus mincing proteins, bleeding deer, and what happened in Amsterdam. Standing on the Devil, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Sep 10, 2015

Episode #155

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Lifting weights, grinding corn, what happened in Edinburgh, and the Berenstein Bears. Plus polymers, Sliders, Nelson Mandela, and California Proposition 65. Fully tested for contamination by GMOs, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Aug 27, 2015

Episode #154

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Patreon, pride, hydration, and brown fat. Plus jugs, the Fonz, inside out moisturiser and slap-downs. With Warren in the corner, it’s Skeptics with a K.Sign up for the Merseyside Skeptics Patreon Page! We will make the show shit if you don’t.

Aug 13, 2015

Episode #153

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Featuring glasses, fortune tellers, dogs, more dogs, and lasers. Plus canal boats, gambling, giant plugs, and the Jimmy Hill Jesus.

Jul 30, 2015

Episode #152

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Flat Earthers, soy beans, arsenic soup, and kettles. Plus Anne of Cleves, vaccines, ten pin bowling, and Mike’s t-shirt.Last chance to donate to the Merseyside Skeptics charity walk.

Jul 16, 2015

Episode #151

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Skinny jeans, trampolining, hair DNA, and allergies. Plus Belgium, fleas, drinking, and the family dog. Ridiculously hot (that’s a temperature-based comment, not conceit) it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jul 2, 2015

Episode #150

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It’s episode 150! That’s a nice round figure. Featuring freemen, steak, batteries, and dis-ease. Plus alzheimer’s, dry docks, lonely mice, and crimes against manatees. Definitely only meaning one thing, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jun 18, 2015

Episode #149

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Genetic modification, Black Salve, pregnancy, and paracetamol. Plus cancer roots, bicarbonate of soda, designer babies, and ‘scientists.’ Only painful after the procedure, it’s Skeptics with a K.Donate to the Merseyside Skeptics Charity Walk for Alzheimers Research at: Just Giving.

Jun 4, 2015

Episode #148

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Internet time, Light Night, brain-boosting orange juice, and seminiferous tubules. Plus decapsulated testes, learning to swim, disappointing books, and two hours of pornography. Still buffering, it’s Skeptics with a K.

May 21, 2015

Episode #147

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Crystal beds, purple vibrators, yoga positions, and cock chakras. Plus Metro-Gnomes, absent islands, glitter herpes, and Ultron. Laughing and vomiting while a piano plays, it’s the multi-award-losing Skeptics with a K.

May 7, 2015

Episode #146

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Ethnic emoji, money for homeopathy, character encoding, and sexist behaviour. Plus alien heads, visiting London, andunconscious bias. And QED is almost here… eek!Donate to the Good Thinking Society Homeopathy appeal at justgiving.com/Good-Thinking-Society-Appeal.

Apr 23, 2015

Episode #145

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Amber necklaces, brain rotting, Kangen Water, and cereal bars. Plus shoes, wasps, Shakespeare, and the greatest mistakes of history. Feeling contrite, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Apr 9, 2015

Episode #144

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Walking, root canals, Sarah Palin and witch doctors. Plus boiling nails, acupuncture meridians and sucking teeth. Without looking directly at the Sun, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Mar 26, 2015

Episode #143

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Featuring raw food, evil gerbils, Mark Zuckerberg and the Silk Road. Plus hate speech, Black Salve, sniffing books, and the never-ending and bloody squirrel civil war.Nominate your favourite podcast for an Ockham Award at the Skeptic website, http://www.skeptic.org.uk/

Mar 12, 2015

Episode #142

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Big stars, big ships, big egos, and not-so-big operations. Plus mind control, propellers, hips, and body builders. Buzzing away, it’s Skeptics with a K.Donate to the Good Thinking Society at goodthinkingsociety.org

Feb 26, 2015

Episode #141

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Exploding viruses, bad luck, zapping blood and the Emperor’s New Music Player. Plus obese mice, broken phones, stool transplants and the importance of back-ups. Pouring over hard work, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Feb 12, 2015

Episode #140

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Oxidative stress, topical urine, imprinted silica, and free radicals. Plus crashed vans, cloning, growing cress, and spoilers. Lots of spoilers. Really, spoiler alert. There are spoilers. Probably not using more than 10% of our brains, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jan 29, 2015

Episode #139

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Charlie Hebdo, ibuprofen, nematode worms and Gerson Therapy. Plus Sonic 2, turkey leftovers, giblets and really bad sound quality. With apologies, on many levels, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jan 15, 2015

Episode #138

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Happy New Year! Featuring milk, muesli, teddy bears and brown sauce. Plus ebola, MMS, apples and jaundice. Supplementing milk with cow poo, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jan 1, 2015

Episode #137

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Tasting wine, cancer quacks, chiropractorsand tannins. Plusresonance, faux apologies, Big Baz the Kangaroo and brainwashing patients. Merry Christmas from Skeptics with a K.

Dec 18, 2014

Episode #136

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Iridology, naturopathy, acupunctureand Dad’s Army. Plus orgasms, Memento, glaucoma and the 2010 Winter Olympics Men’s Skiing. Still wondering what “rolfing” is, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Dec 4, 2014

Episode #135

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Pain, grapes, nectar and thermal paper. Plus hand sanitisers,thermal paper, french fries, Bisphenol A and rat paws.Avoiding till receipts becauseour hands are still wet, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Nov 20, 2014

Episode #134

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Serial killers, HIV, cancer cures and more from psychic shows. Plus blood stains, lanterns, and Michael Crichton. Pawning our shoes, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Nov 6, 2014

Episode #133

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We are back! Again! With peer review, Back to the Future, replication, all the latest on QED… AND DEFINITELY NOTHING ELSE! Ahem.Feeling rather sheepish, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Oct 23, 2014

Episode #132

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Nicotine,marmalade, Monopoly and Grand Theft Auto. Plus the Bread Man, skeptical books and the Gateway Hypothesis. Feeding cocaine to mice, it’s Skeptics with a K.Donate to the SGU legal defence fund at theskepticsguide.org/legaldefense.

Oct 9, 2014

Episode #131

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Short legs, the power of prayer, cooking eggs and Coca-Cola Life. Plus amicable relationships, hanging around in graveyards, gullibility and omniscience. Subjectively true for you, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Sep 25, 2014

Episode #130

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Wikipedia,Proton Beam Therapy and Skeptics in the Pub. Plus science outreach,travelling light andtalking to people you disagree with. Flying by the seat of our pants, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Sep 11, 2014

Episode #129

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Statins, funding homeopathy, placebo effects, and the Ice Bucket Challenge. Plus badger, bat, colon, albatross, and anaphylactic lung. Scheduled bi-monthly (ish) it’s Skeptics with a K.

Aug 28, 2014

Episode #128

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Spanish flu, visiting psychics, and flying to London. Plus children packing shopping, Miss Piggy, cholera toxin and the ravages of time. Getting out of chair 11% faster, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Aug 14, 2014

Episode #127

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A special feature-length episode, celebrating five years of podcasting! Featuring food allergies, homeopathy, secret alien bases and juiced kale. Plus drug cocktails, confused wasps and a special mystery guest presenter.With almost no self-indulgent and self-congratulatory back-slapping, it’s still Skeptics with a K.

Jul 31, 2014

Episode #126

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Bumper episode! (Because our timekeeping is dreadful.) Featuring dowsing, death and disabilities. Plus kids, blindfolds, chewing gum, McDonalds and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Searching for explanationswe may never find, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jul 17, 2014

Episode #125

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Gummy bears, stem cells, superfood and parkour. Plus smokers, commemorative mugs, lip balm and milkshake. Permeating the lipid bilayer, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jul 3, 2014

Episode #124

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Godless babies, topical caffeine, aluminium discs and software for your brain. Plus the old bait-and-switch, Radiohead and reset buttons. As they mend the road behind us, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jun 19, 2014

Episode #123

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Featuring biscuits, stem cells, tempting your ex and maps of New York. Plus acid, fraud, computer generated planes and fluorescence. Masturbating the hypothalamus, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Jun 5, 2014

Episode #122

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It’s election day! With immigrants, Europe, fishermen and pensioners. Plus grumpy brown mice, Omega Energies, ticklish rats and an elderly Turkish woman. Licensed to cull, it’s a bumper episode of Skeptics with a K.If you want to donate to our fund for North West Cancer Research, visit our Just Giving page.

May 22, 2014

Episode #121

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Psychics, Kenyan fisherman,gynosomes and nutritious seminal fluid. Plus, a lot of talk about penises. Really, an awful lot. At least half of the show.Playing it with a straight bat, it’s Skeptics with a K.Donate to our coastal walk for North West Cancer Research at our Just Giving page.Update: An extended excerpt from Marsh’s piece can now be found on the Guardian website.

May 8, 2014

Episode #120

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Blood, violence, crime and Chiropractors. Plus heavy metals, open access journals, tablet computers and a quick look back at QED 2014. Causing moral panic, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Apr 24, 2014

Episode #119

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Anaemia, CD47, HeLa cell lines and cancer. Plus Neem, the planet Pleiades, gastric bands and valium,valium,valium,valium,valium,valium,valium,valium. It’s what you’ll need to get through this episode of Skeptics with a K.

Apr 10, 2014

Episode #118

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Vitamin C, breast milk, Noah’s Ark and cancer. Plus HIV, the Tower of Babel, the Big Questions and half a football pitch full of elephants. With some big news from Colin, it’s the end of an era for Skeptics with a K.

Mar 27, 2014

Episode #117

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Mobile phones, mugging, mormons and more homeopathy. Plus God’s patents, Advertising Standards and pamphleteer. With porridge that’s just right, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Mar 13, 2014