Segments:
Intro; Greetings; Clash of the Candies; This Week in Skepticism; News; Pontus Pokes the Pope; Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes
This episode is the first of its kind as it is the live recording from QED 2018 that happened in Manchester in the middle of October. In the unfortunate abscence of Jelena, Pontus and András are joined by Claire Klingenberg, Brian Eggo and Jay Novella to discuss local confectionery, booze and topics like the Shroud of Turin, Leukemia and how a new finding can lead to sensational but untrue headlines, a Danish cancer quack that sites his long deceased patients as his success stories, a couple of good news from Portugal and a student essay competition initiated by the University of Szeged to encourage critical thinking.
Of course, the pope gets poked again and Smirnoff gets the price for being Really Wrong in playing the non-GMO & gluten-free cards…
Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe
Show Notes:
Greetings
This Week in Skepticism: 14 October 1988 – media conference – Shroud of Turin radiocarbon date revealed and it turned out to be a medieval hoax.
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/1988/oct/14/archaeology.archive
- https://www.livescience.com/63093-shroud-of-turin-is-fake-bloodstains.html
- https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/989579/shroud-of-turin-jesus-christ-fake-proof-religion-news-bible
Skeptical News
INTERNATIONAL: A new discovery with the potential to boost sensationalistic headlines
DENMARK: A cancer quack that still cites his patients as his success stories after they had died while he’d been treating them
PORTUGAL: Good and bad news
HUNGARY: Prestigious university calls for short essays written by students 15-18 years of age on a popular quackery and why it doesn’t hold water
Pontus Pokes the Pope
Sir Francis comparing abortion to hiring a trained killer while blaming the devil for church scandals
- https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/south-park-episode-catholic-priest-sex-abuse/
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pope-devil/pope-blames-devil-for-church-divisions-scandals-seeks-angels-help-idUSKCN1MI10M
- http://www.pewforum.org/2018/10/02/confidence-in-pope-francis-down-sharply-in-u-s/
- https://www.iol.co.za/news/world/pope-blames-devil-for-church-scandals-seeks-angels-help-17398315
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/world/asia/kim-jong-un-pope-francis-north-korea.html
- https://www.euronews.com/2018/10/10/pope-francis-compares-abortion-to-hiring-a-killer
Really Wrong: Smirnoff advertising gluten-free, non-GMO vodka
Quote and Farewell
“The basics are knowing which small steps to take – you can’t start out planning world salvation from the get go. You have to be ready to do gruelling work. You have to find role models, who will teach you how to think better. You can’t always trust what you believe yourself. Every truth starts off as a delusion. It can only become truth after it is critiqued.”
/Ladislav Hromadka, Czech Philosopher/
Outro