On this episode, you’ll find news, events and interesting topics, including QED, Rosetta, ComCept officially instituted, ECSO website launched, The Good Thinking Society winning another battle, Spanish pharmacists taking action against selling homeopathy, Swedish people leaving church, BBC report revealing shocking training for autistic people, ‘My Scientology Movie’ not screening in Ireland and the Swedish Democrat Party pushing for equality of Medicine and CAM.
Segments
Intro; Greetings & Feedback; On this day; What’s on in Europe?; What’s hot in Europe?; Really Wrong; Announcements; Quote
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
00:00:26
Greetings & feedback
- QED – Question. Explore. Discover. is happening this weekend (14-16 Oct)
- ESA’s Rosetta mission is now complete
- Reuters: Orban says to amend constitution so EU can’t impose migrants on Hungary
- The website of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (ECSO) up and running
- ComCept (Portuguese Skeptic Community) now an officially existing organisation
- We are shortlisted for the 2016 Ockham Awards in the Podcast category
00:10:14
On This Day: 10th Oct
Sir John Simon (born 10 Oct 1816)
00:12:46
What’s on in Europe?
- Check out our “Events in Europe” calendar!
00:24:00
What’s Hot in Europe?
- Another NHS CCG to stop funding homeopathy
- Good Thinking Society: NHS Wirral CCG ends funding for homeopathy
- Homeopaths in the UK to follow strict advertising guidelines
- Advertising Standards Authority: Advertising standards for homeopathy
- Pharmacists in Spain protesting against the selling of homeopathic products in pharmacies
- El País editorial: Homeopathy out of pharmacies (in Spanish)
- Farmaciencia on Twitter: @Farma_Ciencia
- Petition against homeopathy to be sold in pharmacies
- Swedish church losing followers
- Humanisterna: Comment on the Swedish Church’s retention (in Swedish)
- Hungarian guy claimst to be able to “train people” out of autism
- My Scientology Movie not to be released in Ireland
- Entertainment.ie: My Scientology Movie will not be released in Ireland
00:48:26
Really Wrong: Swedish Democrat party moves to equate Alternative medicine with Conventional medicine
- Sveriges Riksdag: Provide Alternative medicine the same terms as conventional medicine? (in Swedish)
- Dagens Medicin: SD politicians want to equate “alternative” with science-based medicine (in Swedish)
00:53:49
Quote
“A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized”
/Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher/
00:55:07
Outro
00:56:22
Out-takes