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“SWaK is a show that lends itself to homeopathic listening; incredibly little is more than enough.
Bearing in mind that, "Skeptics with a K", is light Merseyside entertainment, a chance to evesdrop on three mates chatting once a fortnight as if in a pub, no great store should be set against a word they say.
The fact that the podcast makes the claim that it is, 'The podcast for science, reason and critical thinking', does not make it so. Enhancing the claim with the statement that it is, "for the promotion of, "scientific sceptism"', would carry some weight if this were in a dictionary; as if it were (like Tom from Cognitive Dissonance would say), 'a "thing"'.
In #241 Doctor Alice Howarth chooses to pontificate on what Dr. Michael Greger MD talks about, with regard to milk and potential health issues - the USA recommends three glassfuls a day.
Right from the outset, she fails to note (or is totally ignorant) that American milk is banned in Europe. Dr Greger is an American and his advice has a strongly American bias, likely because he is an American living in America and has American sponsors. He is discussing American milk - particularly in view of the American practice of milking cows during their pregnancy.
Had Howarth done the common or garden, "due dilligence", of an unscientific sceptic (with a "C"), she would have percieved that American milk is banned in Europe as it is a, "hormonal stew", to borrow a phrase.
Being a fussy eater does not qualify Alice Howarth as an authority on nutrition, any more than Steven Novella's "MD" qualification (or his specialism in neurology) makes him an authority on the genetic modification of food crops. He's absolutely entitled to express an opinion on SGU (Skeptic's Guide to the Universe) about Europe's "precautionary principle", but he has a duty to make it clear that it is just his unqualified opinion. Howarth too is entitled to an opinion, and to express it on SWaK, but not to dress it up as science. That's what the Woo-Brigade do.
Yes, I unsubscribed from SGU, too.
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