Skeptics with a K

Episode #161

19 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Listener questions, more about homeopathy, and Marsh on the TV, Plus empathy, cheese twists, losing your shit, and skeptic fatigue. Looking a shambles...

Episode #160

05 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Bacon, sausages, plutonium, and HUMAN DNA. Plus sexy drivers, rude commuters, boring dieters, and insuring your shoes. With issues not related to ketc...

Episode #159

22 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Coca-cola, spice cake, nail polish, and Schedule 1 of the National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) (Prescription of Drugs etc.) Re...

Episode #158

08 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, migrant bees, surgical instruments, and sleep paralysis. Plus Alzheimer’s, pesticides, Doctor Who, and genetic engineerin...

Episode #157

24 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 tal...

Episode #156

10 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode #155

27 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Lifting weights, grinding corn, what happened in Edinburgh, and the Berenstein Bears. Plus polymers, Sliders, Nelson Mandela, and California Propositi...

Episode #154

13 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode #153

30 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode #152

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode #151

02 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Skinny jeans, trampolining, hair DNA, and allergies. Plus Belgium, fleas, drinking, and the family dog. Ridiculously hot (that’s a temperature-based...

Episode #150

18 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

Episode #149

04 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Genetic modification, Black Salve, pregnancy, and paracetamol. Plus cancer roots, bicarbonate of soda, designer babies, and ‘scientists.’ Only pai...

Episode #148

21 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Internet time, Light Night, brain-boosting orange juice, and seminiferous tubules. Plus decapsulated testes, learning to swim, disappointing books, an...

Episode #147

07 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Crystal beds, purple vibrators, yoga positions, and cock chakras. Plus Metro-Gnomes, absent islands, glitter herpes, and Ultron. Laughing and vomiting...

Episode #146

23 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Ethnic emoji, money for homeopathy, character encoding, and sexist behaviour. Plus alien heads, visiting London, andunconscious bias. And QED is almos...

Episode #145

09 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Amber necklaces, brain rotting, Kangen Water, and cereal bars. Plus shoes, wasps, Shakespeare, and the greatest mistakes of history. Feeling contrite,...

Episode #144

26 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Walking, root canals, Sarah Palin and witch doctors. Plus boiling nails, acupuncture meridians and sucking teeth. Without looking directly at the Sun,...

Episode #143

12 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Featuring raw food, evil gerbils, Mark Zuckerberg and the Silk Road. Plus hate speech, Black Salve, sniffing books, and the never-ending and bloody sq...

Episode #142

26 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode #141

12 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Exploding viruses, bad luck, zapping blood and the Emperor’s New Music Player. Plus obese mice, broken phones, stool transplants and the importance ...

Episode #140

29 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Oxidative stress, topical urine, imprinted silica, and free radicals. Plus crashed vans, cloning, growing cress, and spoilers. Lots of spoilers. Reall...

Episode #139

15 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Hebdo, ibuprofen, nematode worms and Gerson Therapy. Plus Sonic 2, turkey leftovers, giblets and really bad sound quality. With apologies, on ...

Episode #138

01 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode #137

18 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode #136

04 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Iridology, naturopathy, acupunctureand Dad’s Army. Plus orgasms, Memento, glaucoma and the 2010 Winter Olympics Men’s Skiing. Still wondering what...

Episode #135

20 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Pain, grapes, nectar and thermal paper. Plus hand sanitisers,thermal paper, french fries, Bisphenol A and rat paws.Avoiding till receipts becauseour h...

Episode #134

06 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode #133

23 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

We are back! Again! With peer review, Back to the Future, replication, all the latest on QED… AND DEFINITELY NOTHING ELSE! Ahem.Feeling rather sheep...

Episode #132

09 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Nicotine,marmalade, Monopoly and Grand Theft Auto. Plus the Bread Man, skeptical books and the Gateway Hypothesis. Feeding cocaine to mice, it’s Ske...

Episode #131

25 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Short legs, the power of prayer, cooking eggs and Coca-Cola Life. Plus amicable relationships, hanging around in graveyards, gullibility and omniscien...

Episode #130

11 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Wikipedia,Proton Beam Therapy and Skeptics in the Pub. Plus science outreach,travelling light andtalking to people you disagree with. Flying by the se...

Episode #129

28 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Statins, funding homeopathy, placebo effects, and the Ice Bucket Challenge. Plus badger, bat, colon, albatross, and anaphylactic lung. Scheduled bi-mo...

Episode #128

14 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Spanish flu, visiting psychics, and flying to London. Plus children packing shopping, Miss Piggy, cholera toxin and the ravages of time. Getting out o...

Episode #127

31 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

A special feature-length episode, celebrating five years of podcasting! Featuring food allergies, homeopathy, secret alien bases and juiced kale. Plus...

Episode #126

17 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Bumper episode! (Because our timekeeping is dreadful.) Featuring dowsing, death and disabilities. Plus kids, blindfolds, chewing gum, McDonalds and Je...

Episode #125

03 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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

Episode #124

19 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Godless babies, topical caffeine, aluminium discs and software for your brain. Plus the old bait-and-switch, Radiohead and reset buttons. As they mend...

Episode #123

05 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Featuring biscuits, stem cells, tempting your ex and maps of New York. Plus acid, fraud, computer generated planes and fluorescence. Masturbating the ...

Episode #122

22 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

It’s election day! With immigrants, Europe, fishermen and pensioners. Plus grumpy brown mice, Omega Energies, ticklish rats and an elderly Turkish w...

Episode #121

08 May 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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....

Episode #120

24 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Blood, violence, crime and Chiropractors. Plus heavy metals, open access journals, tablet computers and a quick look back at QED 2014. Causing moral p...

Episode #119

10 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Anaemia, CD47, HeLa cell lines and cancer. Plus Neem, the planet Pleiades, gastric bands and valium,valium,valium,valium,valium,valium,valium,valium. ...

Episode #118

27 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

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 som...

Episode #117

13 Mar 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Mobile phones, mugging, mormons and more homeopathy. Plus God’s patents, Advertising Standards and pamphleteer. With porridge that’s just right, i...

Episode #116

27 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Married exorcists, lying calendars, overstimulated babies and dodgy hips. Plus snakes, swaddling, submarines and spaceport. From the year AD 1717, it’...

Episode #115

13 Feb 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Vegetarians, ghostly spiders, chemtrails and cannibals. Plus Eddie Murphy, killing angels, smashing wine bottles and NASA. It’s just science, from S...

Episode #114

30 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Stress, social policy, smoking and stage hypnosis. Plus teddy bears, Star Trek, critical thinking and sheeple. Chewing the cud, it’s Skeptics with a...

Episode #113

16 Jan 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to 2014! With airline pilots, psychics, rugby balls and websites. Plus mushrooms, Billy Graham, flying cars and walking faster. With some kind...

Episode #112

19 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Ozone, God, pigs and Neil Young. Plus chimpanzees, asthma, cancer and the Bible. It’s the final show of 2013 from Skeptics with a K. Now in 24/192.

Episode #111

05 Dec 2013

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a surprise new episode! Featuring Icelandic elves, alien origins, faith-based decisions and the tensile strength of Bounty bars. Plus lizards &...

Episode #110

14 Nov 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Blood cells, plant cells and picture cells. Plus Catholic bacteria, dodgy dossiers, Superman II and David Kelly. Though Colin is on holiday in Anglese...

Episode #109

31 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

OooooooOOOOOooOooooOOoooo it’s the spooky Halloween episode of Skeptics with a K! Featuring poisonous venom infections, petrified giants, trick or t...

Episode #108

17 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

The accidental conspiracy special! With the SAS, Princess Diana, mountaineers and Jesus of Nazareth. Plus Tales from Texas, Renny Harlin, Withnail and...

Episode #107

03 Oct 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Flowers, travel sickness, food banks and the European Union. Plus Julius Caesar, the abolition of Income Tax and the return of Question of the Week! T...

Episode #106

19 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Wedding cake, Barcelona, attics and UFOs. Plus airports, reflections, designer jeans and an English Professor. Rethinking out philosophy, it’s Skept...

Episode #105

05 Sep 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Hey baby, I love the way your heart beats at night in my dreams,It’s like a grenade in my jeep at the back door of my motel,So let’s make a mix ta...

Episode #104

22 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Atheists, psychics, mental illness and mice. Plus homicide, teen pregnancy, mass shootings and street preachers. With the return of Colin, it’s Skep...

Episode #103

08 Aug 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Homosexuals, cat reiki, the Loan Ranger and eyeball licking. Plus rainbows, jawbones, racoons and Christians. Sadly without Colin, it’s Skeptics wit...

Episode #102

25 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Psychic spies, flying fish, floppy disks and flying kicks. Plus the Asylum, the Touch of Death, aspirin and the CIA. They keep asking us back to do mo...

Episode #101

11 Jul 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Wily dogs, honorable homeopaths and statuesque statuettes. Plus mooning, leashes, stuffed toys and Brian Cox. On a really hot day, it’s Skeptics wit...

Episode #100

27 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

The Age of Transparency,the Playstation Generation, prior plausibility and the British X-Files. Plus education policy, the Queen, laser eyes and blogg...

Episode#099

13 Jun 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Online dating, blood, cruelty and the Watchtower. Plus castles, YHWH, christenings and Coca-Cola. Appearing on the back of a chapati, it’s Skeptics ...

Episode #098

30 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Hayfever, submarines, radio hams and goddesses. Plus Inspector Gadget, My Little Pony, Game of Thrones and Dogtanian. Slightly below-par on the editin...

Episode #097

16 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Atheist atrocities, harbour porpoises, three running horses and a second pregnancy. Plus asexual rabbits, gobstoppers, Jesus and more Mersey monsters....

Episode #096

02 May 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Passive aggressive cats, chia seeds, seaside towns and sex. Plus camouflage netting, Ricicles and Jeremy Clarkson. Not deliberately feeding you bullsh...

Episode #095.5 - the Confession

18 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

No show this week, but Mike has a confession for you all. We’ll be back in two weeks with the regular show - see you then!

Episode #095

04 Apr 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Kurt Cobain, $5000, the Mersey Book of Monsters and the A41. Plus wardrobes, whisky, parapsychologists and Zener Cards. Not quite what it seems to be,...

Episode #094

21 Mar 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Heretics, redox signalling, anti-retroviral therapy and General Health. Plus native water, Aubrey de Gray, quacking videos and Richard Dawkins. Challe...

Episode #093

07 Mar 2013

Contributed by Lukas

T-shirts, asteroids, Russians and worrying. Plus phone boxes, Amazon, the lizard overlords and your rubbish sex life. Recovering from a fever, it’s ...

Episode #092

21 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Bigfoot DNA, twitter and auriculotherapy. Plus Penelope Cruz, weight loss, journals and Findus. With regular interruption by sneezes and sniffles, it’...

Episode #091

07 Feb 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Cancer, cabbage, chem-trails and creationism. Plus serial killers, bacon, more cancer and mormons. Using social engineering in a multiple choice exam,...

Episode #090

24 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Rheumatoid arthritis, mutant fish, firm tomatoes and magic mistletoe. Plus Blue Monday, Rudolf Steiner, copper insoles and Jeffrey Dahmer’s cardigan...

Episode #089

10 Jan 2013

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to 2013! Featuring diets, dogs, measles and elves. Plus chance, cancer, sunshine and scientology. Building space cathedrals in the New Mexico ...

Episode #088

27 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The final episode of 2012! Featuring journalists, Coronation Street, Snoop Dogg and HIV. Plus shamanism, engaging with the press, winging it and druid...

Episode #087

13 Dec 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Dating, genetics, pea plants and Korean unicorns. Plus sugar daddies, monozygotic twins, golf and plenty of Knightmare. It’s another unedited specia...

Episode #086

29 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

A special live, raw, unedited show recorded on Wednesday 28th November 2012. Featuring the perfect pint, beanstalks, capillaries and rock genies. Plus...

Episode #085

15 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Spirit guides, Korean elephants, theme parks and Challenge 25. Plus Withnail and I, Schrödinger’s cat, Busty Belinda and Kate Middleton. Collapsing...

Episode #084

01 Nov 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Whales, psychics, genes and plum pudding. Plus Star Trek V, Channel 4 Racing, Mr Punch and the results of our psychic Halloween Challenge. Almost cert...

Episode #083

18 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Wrinkles, psychics and declassified documents. Plus hula hoops, television, short intestines and the Halloween Challenge. Proud to be preaching to the...

Episode #082

04 Oct 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Musicals, cancer, Star Wars and Percy Shelley. Plus Magna Carta, doppelgängers, the Great Reform Act and Elizabeth I. Putting some maize into a rat, ...

Episode #081

20 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Deaf gerbils, global consciousness and human chess. Plus more sports bracelets, hidden mormons and how not to argue. Oh, and all the latest news on QE...

Episode #080

06 Sep 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Nano-vibrations, short-wave radio, level-crossings and clumped blood. Plus shoes, smokers, sinus arrhythmia and the Godfather. Running over unicorns, ...

Episode #079

23 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Broken glass, internal combustion, hexes, cats and magnets. Plus curses, steam, nukes and (would you believe it) more bloody homeopathy! Rescuing the ...

Episode #078

09 Aug 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The Olympics, Nescafé, horses and heart energy. Plus acultomancy, dictiomancy, hippomancy and pedomancy. Some people think we’re bonkers, but we ju...

Episode #077

26 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Celebrating three years of podcasting! This is the podcast version of the show we streamed live over YouTube on Monday 23rd July 2012. Featuring stick...

Episode #076

12 Jul 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Ball play, dinner parties, dirty Brits and carefree adolescents. Plus strippers, barracudas, public schools and bosons.

Episode #075

28 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Homeopaths, Italian judges, vaccination and pharmacists. Plus hearts, hitchhikers, poets and puns.For more information on homeopathy regulation, see t...

Episode #074

14 Jun 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Games, gardens, Greece and goals. Plus cats, corrections, children and confirmation bias. With British passports, it’s Skeptics with a K.

Episode #073

31 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Crosses, barbecues, Greece and go-carts. Plus passwords, apple trees, unbelievers and Microsoft-certified advice. Getting away scot free, it’s Skept...

Episode #072

17 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Blood types, abseiling, Switzerland and more Marvel Avengers. Plus spiritualists, mammoths, trains and cinnamon crêpes. Suffering from a fever, it’...

Episode #071

03 May 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The Hobbit, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man and Thor. Plus ghosts, power bracelets, frame rates and hot pink bollocks. In a special nor...

Episode #070

19 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Featuring the Maginot Line, glowing soliders and cheap Audis. Plus waterfalls, worms, thunderbirds and gambling. Increasing the price by a penny every...

Episode #069

05 Apr 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Oversized wolves, persecuted Christians, cheating artists and damned dirty scientists. Plus charismatic televangelists, cancer, TED and France. With s...

Episode #068

22 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

What happened at QED, the Poe Toaster, holistic healing and congestion of the brain. Plus speeding tickets, blind monks, Daleks and Peter Cushing. Car...

Episode #067

08 Mar 2012

Contributed by Lukas

In this special “as live” episode, Mike, Marsh and Colin talk about Miley Cyrus, the Lambton Worm and Chinese Lanterns. Plus Lawrence Krauss, fish...

Episode #066

23 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Dawkins, the historicity of Jesus, slave ownership and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Plus the snooze button, Monet and Snow White in the “Bad PR” Megami...

Episode #065

09 Feb 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The power of prayer, robbing the rich and alternative realities. Plus the Lady of the Lake, dunking our buckets and getting the HOTs. Probably not as ...

Episode #064

26 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

It’s Australia Day! Featuring Chicken McNuggets, fingerprints, decoy sausages and DNA. Plus, sniffer babies, Jamie Oliver and Half Man Half Biscuit....

Episode #063

12 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to 2012. The end of the world starts here–with liars, Bob Holness, Zeta Reticuli, and Walt Disney. Plus Gary Coleman, the Star Trek theme, C...