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Episode #035

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TheESP hostsOn this episode, you’ll find news, events and interesting topics, including QED, cupping and ways to win at the Olympic Games, ART and the need to support Fiona O’Leary against the movie “Vaxxed” as well as the victims of playing Pokémon GO across the world. Also, we received a great photo from Poland showing Exorcism monthly.
 
Segments
Intro; Greetings & Feedback; On this day; What’s on in Europe?; What’s hot in Europe?; Logical Fallacies; Really Wrong; Announcements; Quote
 
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
 
00:00:26
Greetings & feedback
Skepticism Monthly in Poland

00:15:05
On This Day: 12th July
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, “ONE EXTRA LARGE MEDIUM
(Russian: Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская, Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya; 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891)
 
00:22:19
What’s on in Europe?

00:25:57
What’s Hot in Europe?

  1. Brexit vote and its effects on health regulations
  2. Three dead after treatment at alternative cancer clinic
  3. Alternative treatment didn’t work for Ansbach suicide-bomber
  4. The pope thinks schools promote gender changes to children to promote book sales
  5. Homeopathic mattresses 
  6. Facebook to get rid of click baits

00:41:03
Logical Fallacies – Post hoc ergo propter hoc

00:46:06
Really Wrong: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for publishing an article in support of homeopathy on their science pages 

00:53:34
Announcements

  1. Petition against false therapies still on
  2. Research grant and a call for fictional stories for the Spanish skeptical organisation ARP
  3. Circulo Esceptico establishes a journalism Award for critical thinking
  4. QED Créche Extended for prospective attendees

00:58:17
Quote
“Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes; yet they are usually left unchronicled.”
/William Ramsay/
 
00:59:19
Outro
 
01:00:34
Out-takes

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