TheESP – Ep. #326 – The truth needs you!

 

Nessie is back – unless the camera is on

Ukraine wins the Eurovision Song Contest and Putin is not happy about it. On the other hand the other ESC – the European Skeptics Congress – should make everybody happy! Register now! Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia, GSOW, is a great thing and Annika celebrates five years on the team. In TWISH we learn about Heinz Oberhummer who was born this week in 1941 and the Pope has a bunch of cardinals in trouble so he has replaced the communion wine with tequila. We instead stay sober and check out the news:

• UK: Wanna expose liars? Get them distracted
• SCOTLAND: Daily Mail report on the latest ‘sighting’ of Nessie?
• GERMANY: Hygiene Museum in Dresden dedicates exhibition to Fake News

SL, the Stockholm local train service, is in cahoots with Scientology and for that they are Really Wrong.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; Pontus Pokes The Pope; News; Really Wrong; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

• Ukraine wins Eurovision
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/may/16/eurovision-winners-sing-at-polish-border-on-way-back-to-ukraine
• Get your tickets to ESC!
  • ECSO: https://www.ecso.org/esc2022/
• Five years GSOW anniversary for me, Annika!
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Gerbic

0:10:09 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 19 May 1941: Heinz Oberhummer
  • Taylor & Francis Online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10619127.2016.1141023
  • Oberhummer award: https://oberhummeraward.at

0:15:11 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Clash of the Titans – Becciu vs Pell
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/05/cardinals-and-ex-rivals-spar-over-testimony-in-vatican-trial-of-the-century
• Cardinal arrested in Hong Kong
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-asia/2022/05/top-asian-prelate-calls-hong-kong-a-police-state-after-cardinal-zens-arrest
• Cardinal Parolin launches praying app for military personnel
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/05/cardinal-parolin-launches-catholic-app-for-military-personnel
• Frankie prefers Tequila over physiotherapy
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/05/popes-recipe-to-heal-his-painful-knee-a-shot-of-tequila

0:22:57 NEWS

• UK: Wanna expose liars? Get them distracted
  • Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220510151446.htm
  • Science Daily: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-to-expose-a-liar-according-to-science-get-them-distracted
• SCOTLAND: Daily Mail report on the latest ‘sighting’ of Nessie?
  • Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10768561/Couple-claim-video-Loch-Ness-shows-legendary-monster-swimming-beneath-waters.html
  • the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/the-loch-ness-monster-a-modern-history-182546
• GERMANY: Hygiene Museum in Dresden dedicates exhibition to Fake News
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2022/05/15/fake-die-ganze-wahrheit-im-hygiene-museum-dresden/

0:31:57 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Stockholm local trains (SL) advertise for Scientology
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/johanwicklen/status/1522219826722131969/photo/1

0:36:11 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“So the next time someone comes to you: ‘We humans have lost touch with the old knowledge, we have to go back to nature’, then ask him where you have to go, and whether you should bring rain protection and be in a good mood. Not that it would be a good idea to use up the resources of our planet as if there were no tomorrow, but where man lives strictly in harmony with nature, it is usually not comfortable.”
/ Heinz Oberhummer, (19 May 1941 – 24 November 2015), Austrian physicist and skeptic. /

0:39:01 OUTRO

0:40:16 OUT-TAKES

CHARITIES FOR UKRAINE

• Ukraine Humanitarian Fund
  • Ukraine Humanitarian Fund: https://crisisrelief.un.org/t/ukraine
• Razom For Ukraine
  • Razom For Ukraine: https://razomforukraine.humanitru.com/donate
• The Kyiv Independent
  • The Kyiv Independent : https://kyivindependent.com/
• UNICEF
  • UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/conflict-ukraine-pose-immediate-threat-children
• Migration Aid
  • Migration Aid: https://migrationaid.org/