Episode #003, feat. Michael Marshall

Interview with Michael Marshall, project director at the Good Thinking Society, co-founder of the Merseyside Skeptics Society and co-host of its official podcast, ‘Skeptics with a K’.
 
Segments:
Intro; Listener feedback; What’s on in Europe?; On this day; What’s new in Europe?; Interview with Michael Marshall; Logical Fallacies; Interview with Martin Poulter; Really Wrong; Quote
 
Show notes and segment details:
00:00:00
INTRO music
 
00:00:24
Introduction and greetings
 
00:00:54
Listener feedback
 
00:07:27
Overview of the podcast
 
00:10:09
What’s on in Europe:

1. 21^st National Conference of Skeptics (Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 14/11/2015) 
   • Conference website (in Hungarian)
   • Video recordings of the conference (in Hungarian)
2. ComCeptCon 2015 (Porto, Portugal, 21/11/2015)
   • Conference website (in Portugal)
   • Website of Portuguese Skeptics (ComCept)
3. 2^nd Skeptic Society Conference (Moscow, Russia, 28-29/11/2015)
   • Conference website (in Russian)
   • Skeptic Society on Wikipedia (in English)

00:15:21
On This Day – Born on 16th Dec: Arthur C Clarke

• Arthur C. Clarke on Wikipedia

00:18:19
What’s new in Europe?

1. 10 smartest countries in the world
   • Article on Techinsider
   • OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2015
2. Polio in Ukraine
   • Aol.com: UN: Polio outbreak in Ukraine is a state of emergency
   • UNICEF: The Lancet: Ukraine at risk of polio outbreak
   • NPR: WHO Asks Ukraine To Declare A State Of Emergency. The Reason? Polio
   • The Vaccination Chronicles on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTprFOmIjIg
3. 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris
   • COP21 on Wikipedia
   • The Paris Agreement on Wikipedia
   • BBC: COP21 climate change summit reaches deal in Paris
   • UNFCCC: Adoption of the Paris Agreement (pdf)
4. Anthroposophical homeopathic “remedies” gets special treatment in Sweden
   • Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish)

00:40:42
Interview with Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society, co-founder of the Merseyside Skeptics Society and co-host of its official podcast, ‘Skeptics with a K’

• Good Thinking Society website
• Good Thinking Society on Wikipedia
• Merseyside Skeptics Society website
• Merseyside Skeptics Society on Wikipedia
• Michael Marshall on Wikipedia
• Skeptics with a K on Wikipedia

01:11:26
Logical Fallacies: Argument from popularity

• Argumentum ad populum on Wikipedia
• The Bandwagon on YourLogicalFallacyIs.com
• Appeal to popularity on LogicallyFallacious.com

01:17:02
Interview with Martin Poulter, Wikimedian in Residence at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and convenor of Wikipedia Science Conference held in London in September 2015

• Dr Martin Poulter’s profile on University of Bristol’s website
• Martin Poulter’s website
• Wikipedia Science Conference website

01:27:23
Really Wrong: Norwegian Government initiative to plant trees against climate change

• http://www.saltklypa.no/e/109-ytringsfrihet-og-gr%C3%B8nne-skoger/ (in Norwegian)
• http://www.opprop.net/opprop_mot_planting_av_klimaskog (in Norwegian)

01:33:01
Quote
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.”
 
/Marie Skłodowska Curie/
 
01:34:59
Outro
 
01:36:25
Out-takes