Episode #011, feat. Raffaella Vitali

Featuring a short interview with Raffaella Vitali, the only Italian editor of the international Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) project, lots of skeptic events across Europe and much more.
 
Segments:
Intro; Greetings; Listener feedback; On this day; What’s on in Europe?; What’s hot in Europe?; Logical Fallacies; Interview with Leon Raffaella Vitali; Really Wrong; Quote
 
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
  
00:00:25
Introduction and greetings
 
00:02:47
Listener feedback

• TEDx in Romania
• Skeptics in Switzerland
• Contact us!

00:06:42
On This Day: 24^th February – Johann Weyer, Dutch physician, occultist and demonologist (16th Century)

• About Johann Weyer on Wikipedia

00:11:42
What’s on in Europe?

• Skeptics in the Pub and other similar gatherings praised in The Guardian: Where to get your science fix?
• Please, check out the Skeptic Calendar of Events in Europe! 

00:20:43
What’s Hot in Europe?

1. Russian scientists developed an ebola vaccine?
   • The Guardian: Vladimir Putin claims Ebola virus vaccine has been developed by Russia
   • Time: Vladimir Putin Claims That Russia Has Developed an Ebola Vaccine
   • SputnikNews: Russia Patents Ebola Vaccines, Has Exclusive Use Rights
   • About Ebola vaccines on Wikipedia
2. Homeopathy under attack in several countries – Time to declare it doesn’t work
   • Edzard Ernst: A new and important declaration about homeopathy
   • GWUP blog: Even politicians are interested in the Homeopathy Information Network (in German)
   • Süddeutsche Zeitung: It is pseudomedicine (in German)
   • Independent: Homeopathy effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses, study finds
3. St John’s wort recalled after contaminated batches discovered
   • The Guardian: St John’s wort recalled after contaminated batches discovered
4. Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition to file official complaint about colloidal silver products at the Hungarian Competition Authority and Hungarian Authority for Consumer Protection
   • Origo: Colloidal silver consumption is risky (in Hungarian)
   • About colloidal silver on Wikipedia
5. Crash Course Astronomy in Several Languages
   • Bad Astronomy Blog (Phil Plait): Crash Course Astronomy: Now in a Language Near You!
6. Xenophobia on maps – refugee hoaxes across Germany
   • Hoaxmap.org
   • Big Think: Mapping xenophobia

00:37:21
Logical Fallacies – Argument by repetition

• Argument by repetition on LogicallyFallacious
• About the ‘Ad nauseam’ fallacy on Wikipedia

00:40:58
Interview with Raffaella Vitali

• Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia blog 

00:54:46
Really Wrong: Karolinska Institutet – for failing to protect the public from the actions of a quack

• Official website
• About Karolinska Institutet on Wikipedia
• About Paolo Macchiarini on Wikipedia

01:00:04
Quote
“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.”
 
/Lise Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist/
 
01:01:14
Outro
 
01:02:30
Out-takes