Episode #005, feat. Diana Barbosa

Interview with Diana Barbosa, co-founder of ComCept, the Portuguese Skeptic Community and co-organiser of ComCeptCon as well as Skeptics in the Pub in Porto.
 
Segments:
Intro; Greetings; Listener feedback; On this day; What’s on in Europe?; What’s hot in Europe?; Interview with Diana Barbosa; Logical Fallacies; Interview with Dario Taraborelli; Really Wrong; True or false; Quote
 
Show notes and segment details:
00:00:00
INTRO music

00:00:25
Introduction and greetings

00:00:54
Listener feedback, etc. 

00:04:05
Overview of the podcast

00:06:33
On This Day – On 13^th January 1404: Act Against Multipliers signed

• Motherboard: When Chemistry was outlawed
• Multiplication (Alchemy) on Wikipedia
• Mines Royal Act 1689 on Wikipedia

00:09:24
What’s on in Europe:

• Skeptics in the Pub chapters around the UK on The Skeptic’s website

COMING SOON

1. Skeptics in the Pub Madrid, Spain (16th January 2016, 19:00, Moe Club, Madrid) ‘Pseudoscience in the Media’
   • More information on the Escepticos website (in Spanish)
   • The event on Facebook
2. Skeptics in the Pub Porto, Portugal (16th January 2016, 16:00, Trinkas, Porto) ‘The use of animals in scientific experiments’
   • More information on the ComCept website (in Portuguese)
   • The event on Facebook
3. Skeptics in the Museum, Portugal (17th January 2016, 14:45, Porto) Visit to the National Printing Press Museum
   • More information on the ComCept website (in Portuguese)
   • The event on Facebook
4. Skeptics in the Pub Malmö, Sweden (23rd January 2016, 19:00, Sir Toby’s, Malmö) ‘An evening with Jay Novella’
   • The event on Facebook
5. Secularism 101 course opening in Madrid (26th January 2016, 19:00, HQ of CAUM, Madrid) ‘Introduction to Secularism – The Freedom of Conscience’ (in Spanish)
   • More information on this free series of events on the Escepticos website (in Spanish)
   • More information on Laicismo.org (in Spanish)
   • Website of the Club of Friends of UNESCO in Madrid (in Spanish)

LATER THIS YEAR

1. Rationalist International Conference (23rd April 2016, Tallin, Estonia) ‘A Gathering of Critical Thinkers from Across the Globe’
   • Booking site on Eventbrite
   • The event on Facebook
2. SkepKon in Hamburg (5-7th May 2016, Hamburg, Germany)
   • Skeptics gatherings and events on the GWUP website
   • SkepKon Conference website

00:17:04
What’s hot in Europe?

1. “Don’t Throw Away Your Christmas Tree Just Yet!”
   • Ködpiszkáló: Ki ne dobd a karácsonyfád (in Hungarian)
   • Medicinal Food News: Pine Needle Tea
   • Nutrition Facts about certain fruits
   • NIH ODS recommendations for daily intake of Vitamin C
   • USDA FSR publication: Seasonal Changes in Carbohydrates and Ascorbic Acid in White Pine and Possible Relation to Tipburn Sensitivity (pdf)
   • About Christmas Trees on Wikipedia
   • Veterinary Pathology: The toxic and abortifacient effects of ponderosa pine (on PubMed)
   • Cornell Veterinarian: Embryotoxic effects of pine needles and pine needle extracts (on PubMed)
2. The Swedish Skeptics Society has published their two yearly prizes, “Enlightener of the year” and “Deceiver of the year”
   • The Announcement of the VoF website (in Swedish)
3. New Executive Director of the EMA (European Medicines Agency) Professor Guido Rasi expresses commitment to transparency and advocates the best use of available evidence in the coming years
   • Press Release on the EMA website
   • AllTrials welcomes the announcement
   • About Prof Rasi on the EMA website
   • The European Medicines Agency on Wikipedia
4. Ask For Evidence campaign
   • “Best and Worst” of 2015 on the Ask For Evidence website

00:33:56
Interview with Diana Barbosa, co-founder of ComCept, the Portuguese Skeptic Community and co-organiser of ComCeptCon as well as Skeptics in the Pub in Porto.

• ComCept official website
• ComCept’s Twitter handle: @ComceptPt
• Diana Barbosa’s Twitter handle: @diraquel

01:04:49
Logical Fallacies: Definist Fallacy

• Persuasive Definition on Wikipedia
• Definist Fallacy on LogicallyFallacious.com 

01:08:08
Interview with Dario Taraborelli, Head of Research at the Wikimedia Foundation and Organiser of The Altmetrics Collection

• Dario Taraborelli’s website
• Dario Taraborelli’s site on the site of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Website of The Altmetrics Collection
• Dario Taraborelli’s Twitter handle: @ReaderMeter 

01:18:34
Really Wrong: ShieldHeadWear & BabyPod

• ShieldHeadWear website
• ShieldHeadWear Kickstarter campaign
• About BabyPod on The Guardian’s website 

01:23:23
True or False

1. Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have failed in a court case to ban the use of the word lesbian being used to describe sexual attraction between women
   • The Telegraph: Lesbos islanders lose lesbian ban court case
2. Running very long distances can make your brain shrink
   • Quartz: Running very long distances can make your brain shrink
3. Scientists say that a person’s natural hair colour reveals information about their personality
   • LittleThings.com: Scientists Say Your Eye Color Reveals Information About Your Personality. Mine Was SO TRUE

01:34:04
Quote
“Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead.”
 
/Bertrand Russell: Skeptical Essays, 1928/

01:34:56
Outro

01:36:12
Out-takes