Episode #041

 
On this episode, you’ll find news, events and interesting topics, including Nessie, Bayer buying Monsanto, the European Skeptics Congress Facebook page launched, as well as Paul VI’s legacy, the Good Thinking Society pushing the Charity Commission, a surgeon attempting to perform a head transplant, the UN calling for transparency of clinical trials, an atheistic campaign that hit Denmarks national church, the false hope of the Hufeland Klinik, a Swedish ghost hunting TV show in violation of regulations and ear candling promoted by a UK quack.
 
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 on sale until 2nd Oct
• New photo of “Nessie” discussed on Doubtful News (They’re back!)
• Biotech giant Bayer buys Monsanto
• Susan Gerbic (Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia) and George Hrab (Geologic Podcast) talking about us on the latest episode of Skepticality
• Sergio López Borgonoz, treasurer of ARP-SAPC dies in a tragic car accident

00:08:05
On This Day: 26th Sept
Pope Paul VI (Born 26th Sept 1897)

 
00:15:55
What’s on in Europe?

• Check out our “Events in Europe” calendar!
• Facebook page of the 17th European Skeptics Congress

00:25:02
What’s Hot in Europe?

1. Charity Commission of the UK to review alternative health charities as a result of the Good Thinking Society filing complaints
   • Good Thinking Society: Charity Commission to review policy on alternative health charities after challenge by Good Thinking
2. Italian doctor to perform first head transplant?
   • BBC: The surgeon who wants to perform a head transplant by 2017
3. AllTrials: UN calls for global action on clinical trial transparency
4. Atheistic Campaign hits Danish national church
   • Dagen: Atheist campaign is hard on the Danish church (in Swedish)
5. Doubtful News: The false hope of the Hufeland Klinik
6. Swedish ghost hunting TV show repeatedly in violation of broadcasting regulations
   • Nöjes Bladet: The father hanged like scary spirit in TV
   • The Ideomotor Effect

00:52:09
Logical Fallacies – Nirvana Fallacy

• Nirvana Fallacy on Logically Fallacious 

00:55:20
Really Wrong: Famous UK TV doctor recommends ear candling

• The Daily Mail: Burns, injuries and irritations: Why experts say sticking a lit candle in your ear is the most foolish health fad EVER

01:01:17
Announcements:
Two Books for skeptics in German:

• The Fake Hunter
• Scientifically Proven

Sense About Science:

• “Evidence matters” – call for questions and relevant stories

01:05:13
Quote
“Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue”
/Charles Darwin/
 
01:07:38
Outro
 
01:08:53
Out-takes