Welcome to the Weekly Sceptic - episode 25! Toby and Nick discuss the ruination of Roald Dahl and Rudyard Kiplings writings much to the fury of Nick, Rishi Sunak and Salman Rushdie! Nicola Sturgeon has gone but Toby and Nick wonder whether she might be replaced by someone even worse? Nick and Toby then reflect that people who subscribe to orthodox beliefs seem to suffer compared to those with other beliefs. Toby then unexpectedly lends his support to the leadership aspirations of the truly awful Humza Yousaf Nick talks about the woke and chilling AI chatbots and then attempts to describe what prompt injection attack is. Toby talks about AI gold rushes, recounts Googles recent embarrassing moment and subsequent loss of market cap and the boys finish off the segment on the nature of sentience. Nick and Toby then discuss South Parks hilarious lampooning of Harry and Meghan (spoiler: Meghan takes offence, obviously). Birdwatch makes a return and the boys discuss the 'Konstantin Kisin vs Matt Walsh' spat on Twitter regarding the long awaited backlash to woke This weeks first sponsor is The Jasmine Sari by Philip Tucker, available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07TVFGV8S Dr Will Jones joins Nick to discuss the weeks most interesting stories as featured in the Daily Sceptic. This week's second sponsor is Thor Holt and you can find him here: https://thorholt.substack.com/ https://www.thorholt.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/thorholt/ or on his Telegram channel at @thor_holt (visit https://belle-epoque.co.uk/ for Thors meet up). Nick and Toby compete once more for the title of Peak Woke. If you are interested in attending a live recording of the Weekly Sceptic podcast in London please email us to let us know at thedailysceptic@gmail.com. Please send in your problems for Dr Peterson to answer next week to: thedailysceptic@gmail.com (and let us know if youd like us to use your name). To advertise on one of the fastest growing podcasts in the world, drop Toby a line at thedailysceptic@gmail.com. Please go to https://dailysceptic.org/ and make a donation so we can continue to bring you all this high quality content. Subscribe to Nicks substack: https://nickdixon.substack.com/ Or Tobys substack: https://tobyyoung.substack.com/ And Nicks New Podcast: https://currentthingpod.podbean.com/ Produced by Jason Clift. Music by Tinderella.