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Marsh revisits the so-called 'grievance studies' and looks at what the papers actually said. Meanwhile, Mike gets his annual phone upgrade. -
Episode 54 of our satirical, skeptical comedy podcast recorded live at QED 2023. Your host is Andy Wilson (@InKredulosi) of the Merseyside Skeptics Society and co-organiser of QED conference. Appearing are: -
Joining Marsh today is functional medicine doctor Nyjon Eccles, to talk about the controversial thermographic cancer screening scans, why Nyjon feels the medical profession is wrong to discount them, and why he feels cancer patients would benefit from a functional medicine approach of nutritional support.
From the archives in 1993, Robert McGrath looks at the difficulty of validating psychic messages - and ponders lessons from cryptography.
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