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TheESP – Ep. #447 – Flying high!

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András is back in good form and we start with a report from the Swedish Skeptics at the Gothenburg Book Fair – real life astronauts where involved! A little listener feed back and then we go to TWISH to hear about German R&B Singer and conspiracy theorist Xavier Naidoo. Then it’s time for the news:

  • SWEDEN: Secret Service confirms State of Iran behind disinformation text messages re Quran burnings
  • INTERNATIONAL: Social media moguls are a concern to most experts regarding misinformation
  • BELGIUM: And the Pope is still a misogynist
  • PORTUGAL: Public trust drives vaccine uptake regardless of age

To round up we hand a Really Wrong Award to well-known homeopath Michael Frass, who keeps implying that homeopathy can treat cancer – but his arguments are based on falsified research…

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:50 GREETINGS

  • VoF flying high at Gothenburg International Book Fair
  • Listener feedback: update on Fleur Agema

0:09:45 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:16:00 NEWS

0:45:10 REALLY WRONG

0:50:34 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact.
    Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784), French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. /

0:51:52 OUTRO

0:53:07 OUT-TAKES


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