Episode #039

On this episode, you’ll find news, events and interesting topics, including Mother Theresa, Susan Gerbic and GSoW, John Needham and the theory of spontaneous generation, the European Congress for Homeopathy, a new 10:23 international campaign, why experts get it wrong through false memories, Hamer’s New Germanic Medicine has yet another victim, news around ARP-SAPC, Scientology in Swedish schools, Norway’s national church loses 25k members, legal name fraud in the UK and Hungarian fitness guru criticised for sharing bogus claims with a million followers. Also, Russia gets the Really Wrong price this time for arresting a youtuber for playing Pokemon Go in a church. Plus we have two short interviews that Andras recorded at Sziget Festival in Budapest. 
 
Segments
Intro; Greetings & Feedback; On this day; What’s on in Europe?; What’s hot in Europe?; Logical Fallacies; Report from Sziget Festival 2016; Really Wrong; Announcements; Quote
 
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
 
00:00:26
Greetings & feedback

• The Independent: Mother Teresa becomes saint after Pope Francis declaration at Vatican
• Church Militant: Hungary Forms Gov’t Office to Help Persecuted Christians
• Susan Gerbic on Facebook explaining how a highly debated page on Wikipedia develops

00:09:17
On This Day: 10th Sept
English naturalist John Needham (born 10 Sept 1713)
http://www.famousscientists.org/john-needham/
 
00:16:52
What’s on in Europe?

• Check out our “Events in Europe” calendar!
• European Congress for Homeopathy

00:27:58
What’s Hot in Europe?

1. Why experts get it wrong: being knowledgeable about a subject implants false memories
   • The Telegraph: Why experts get it wrong: being knowledgeable about a subject implants false memories
2. Current activities of Spanish skeptics
   • El Escéptico vol. 44. available online
   • Grant open for the publication of original research into pseudoscientific issues
   • What’s the harm? – Spanish equivalent of whatstheharm.net
3. Scientology material used in Swedish national schools
   • Svenska Dagbladet: Large factual errors in drug education (in Swedish)
4. Yet another death by Hamer’s quackery – this time in Switzerland
   • Der Standard: 18-year-old cancer patient dies after denying chemotherapy (in German)
   • Repubblica: Padua, the family refuses chemo, she dies of leukemia (in Italian)
5. Norway’s national church loses 25,000+ members after new online system makes it easier to leave
   • Independent: Norway’s biggest church loses more than 25,000 members after new online system makes it easier to leave
6. The mystery of the ‘legal name fraud’ billboards
   • BBC: The mystery of the ‘legal name fraud’ billboards
7. Hungarian fitness guru with a million followers spreads false claims about eating lemons and sodium bicarbonate
   • Index: Update Norbi promoting pseudoscientific nonsense (in Hungarian)

01:05:54
Logical Fallacies – Moving the goalposts fallacy

• Moving the goalposts on Logicall Fallacious

01:08:49
Report from Sziget Festival 2016 from Budapest (Hungarian Skeptic Society)

01:18:34
Really Wrong: Russia – Youtuber in Russia arrested for playing Pokemon Go in a Church

• The Guardian: Russian YouTuber facing five years in jail after playing Pokémon Go in church

01:24:58
Announcement: Nominations for the Goldene Brett presented by the Vienna Skeptics’ are open.

• http://goldenesbrett.guru

01:26:05
Quote
“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
/Baruch Spinoza, Dutch Portuguese philosopher/
 
01:27:23
Outro
 
01:28:38
Out-takes