Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week in Skepticism; News; Pontus Pokes the Pope; Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes
This week we talked about Susan Gerbic’s new interview with Massimo Polidoro, a court case over calling someone a Holocaust denier, new teams doing science communication, coconut and the undecided public enemy state, homeopathy and whether it’s unethical for pharmacies to sell it, HPV vaccination for boys, ‘Inoculated’, a new movie in Germany that might be twice as dangerous as Vaxxed, SkepKon 2019, fake Twitter accounts, an Austrian photographer’s encyclopaedia of bogus claims and how religion ruins everything.
Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe
Show Notes:
00:00:27 Greetings
Susan Gerbic’s interview with Massimo Polidoro: https://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/fifty_books_and_counting
00:13:09 This Week in Skepticism
On 5 September 1996, Irving filed a libel suit concerning Lipstadt’s book in English court. He named in his suit Lipstadt and Penguin Books, whose division Plume had published a British edition of her book.
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/apr/11/irving.uk
- https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/05/humanities.highereducation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd
00:19:05 Skeptical News
SPAIN: A new organisation for the promotion of science is born in Valencia
INTERNATIONAL: Measles update
- http://www.thejournal.ie/measles-dublin-4-4195285-Aug2018/
- https://www.facebook.com/dhgorski/posts/10156731379814744
- https://www.facebook.com/NowThisNews/videos/995227650680347/
- http://outbreaknewstoday.com/measles-ukraine-reports-significant-decrease-incidence-total-cases-near-30000/amp/
- http://outbreaknewstoday.com/measles-greece-tops-3200-15-months-31658/amp/
- http://outbreaknewstoday.com/london-measles-total-year-nears-300-cases-89155/amp/
- https://edzardernst.com/2018/08/why-do-we-see-measles-outbreaks-left-right-and-centre-ask-your-scam-provider/
- https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/vaccines-still-dont-cause-autism/
GERMANY: Freiburg doctor Karin Michels gives a talk abut coconut oil being a poison
FRANCE: French university drops homeopathy degree amid alternative medicines row
- http://en.rfi.fr/20180902-french-university-drops-homeopathy-degree-alternative-medicine
- http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/2018/03/18/31003-20180318ARTFIG00183-l-appel-de-124-professionnels-de-la-sante-contre-les-medecines-alternatives.php
SPAIN: University of Alicante offering a course into the public understanding of Science
EUROPE: HPV vaccination for boys
- https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3237
- https://mysocalledgaylife.co.uk/2018/08/the-danish-government-wants-to-vaccinate-boys-against-hpv/
- https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/boys-to-be-given-hpv-vaccine-next-year-pledges-leo-varadkar-1.358869
GERMANY: New movie called ‘Inoculated’ is probably worse than ‘Vaxxed’
- https://www.spektrum.de/kolumne/im-zeichen-der-egozentrik/1585976
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eingeimpft
GERMANY: SkepKon 2019 in the making: Call for papers
GERMANY: Is it unethical for Pharmacies to sell homeopathic products
- https://edzardernst.com/2018/08/german-pharmacists-fail-their-customers-when-advising-them-on-homeopathy/
- https://nepszava.hu/1141651_placebo-hatasu-homeopatiaitelet
SWEDEN: Swedish Study Notes Surge in Automated Twitter Accounts
AUSTRIA: “This will change your life forever” – Photographer puts bogus claims and products in display
01:05:27 Pontus Pokes the Pope: Oh, where to begin?
- https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/30/pope-francis-deletes-tweet/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/28/vatican-erases-popes-remarks-about-psychiatric-help-for-gay-children
- https://l.facebook.com/l.phpu=http%3A%2F%2Ffriendlyatheist.patheos.com%2F2018%2F08%2F26%2Fpope-francis-couldnt-even-give-away-free-tickets-to-the-papal-mass-in-ireland%2F&h=AT17_UNNoJ6aqmySq999XPwoyecF22dhvEb0008o8uUOf8qNItgx7PuEzh4wH6bg7iV1GFZndDP8oIYrf_09Uu7QanVKgC0sTNOlYhujv1h8E4YbNzvLm1ywa_NRLFVagyYyRRCXo09Zef6YZeo
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/26/pope-francis-failed-to-act-on-abuse-claims-says-former-vatican-envoy
- http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/22/patricia-heaton-tone-deaf-pope-francis-for-weak-sex-abuse-scandal-response/
01:11:27 Really Wrong: Publicly funded religious free school scandal
- http://www.gp.se/nyheter/västsverige/jag-har-försökt-förtränga-allt-1.7855978
- http://www.gp.se/nyheter/västsverige/vi-skulle-bli-tomma-kärl-som-skulle-fyllas-1.7980809
01:16:27 Quote and Farewell
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
/Adam Smith (1723-90) Scottish moral philosopher/
01:17:34 Outro
01:18:49 Out-takes