Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, James Harkin, and Andrew Hunter Murray,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with you, James Harkin.
Okay,
my fact this week is
that the fear of lifts can be cured by starving the subject and forcing them to eat all of their meals in lifts.
How long do you have to eat all your meals in a lift for?
I think they only did it for a day or two, but then they checked back on this person a few years later and it worked,
and this is in an old paper from 1973 that I stumbled across this week,
and the paper is called A Brief Treatment of Elevator Phobia, and it's by S.
Brintwick and Leslie Soljom.
So what's the idea?
You would sit inside an elevator and you'd be distracted so that you Well what happens is,
what you do is you've got someone who's scared of elevators or lifts,
and you say to them you're not allowed to eat for 24 hours, and they go okay I'm not going to eat,
and you say you're not allowed to drink water either, and they say okay,
and then you say to them okay well you can have something to eat now,