Episode #035

On this episode, you’ll find news, events and interesting topics, including QED, cupping and ways to win at the Olympic Games, ART and the need to support Fiona O’Leary against the movie “Vaxxed” as well as the victims of playing Pokémon GO across the world. Also, we received a great photo from Poland showing Exorcism monthly.
 
Segments
Intro; Greetings & Feedback; On this day; What’s on in Europe?; What’s hot in Europe?; Logical Fallacies; Really Wrong; Announcements; Quote
 
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
 
00:00:26
Greetings & feedback

• QED – Question. Explore. Discover. (tickets are still available for the 2016 event in Oct)
• Kyle Sturgess recommending us for nomination for the Ockham Awards 2016 on Twitter
• Nominations are now open for the Ockham Awards 2016
• Cupping – Olympic Pseudoscience
• Fiona O’Leary (founder of ART – Autistic Right Together) on The Skeptic Zone (Ep. #406)  and The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe (Ep. #577) – Call for support against Andrew Wakefield and “Vaxxed”.
• Independent: Pokemon Go: Man ‘impaled on metal fence’ while playing game in Stockholm
• Listener (Adam) sent us a photo of Exorcism Monthly in Poland with Al Pacino on the front page

00:15:05
On This Day: 12th July
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, “ONE EXTRA LARGE MEDIUM”
(Russian: Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская, Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya; 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891)
 
00:22:19
What’s on in Europe?

• Check out our “Events in Europe” calendar!
• Skeptics on the Fringe in Edinburgh

00:25:57
What’s Hot in Europe?

1. Brexit vote and its effects on health regulations
   • AllTrials: Brexit vote spurs UK review of clinical trial guidelines
   • The Guardian: Ireland calls for EU drug agency to be moved from London to Dublin
2. Three dead after treatment at alternative cancer clinic
   • Edzard Ernst: Fatalities in a German alternative medicine clinic caused by 3BP?
   • The Local: Three dead after treatment at alternative cancer clinic
3. Alternative treatment didn’t work for Ansbach suicide-bomber
   • Edzard Ernst: Ansbach suicide-bomber had alternative treatments for severe psychological trauma
4. The pope thinks schools promote gender changes to children to promote book sales
   • Slate.com: Pope Francis Claims Schools Are Conspiring to Teach Kids to Be Transgender
5. Homeopathic mattresses 
   • The cover is coated with an allegedly anti-allergenic substance that is homeopathic in nature (in Hungarian)
6. Facebook to get rid of click baits
   • Facebook: News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed

00:41:03
Logical Fallacies – Post hoc ergo propter hoc

• About Scapegoating on The Skeptic’s Dictionary
• EU Observer: Hungary steps up campaign on migration referendum

00:46:06
Really Wrong: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung for publishing an article in support of homeopathy on their science pages 

• Edzard Ernst: Homeopathy: ‘the days of fighting are over’
• FAZ: The days of fighting are over (in German)

00:53:34
Announcements

1. Petition against false therapies still on
2. Research grant and a call for fictional stories for the Spanish skeptical organisation ARP
3. Circulo Esceptico establishes a journalism Award for critical thinking
4. QED Créche Extended for prospective attendees

00:58:17
Quote
“Progress is made by trial and failure; the failures are generally a hundred times more numerous than the successes; yet they are usually left unchronicled.”
/William Ramsay/
 
00:59:19
Outro
 
01:00:34
Out-takes