Segments:
Intro; Greetings; Interview with Norbert Aust; This Week in Skepticism; News; Pontus Pokes the Pope: Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Out-takes
Show Notes:
00:00:27 Greetings
We comment on Stephen Hawking’s funeral and give a new update on the European statistics for measles (it’s bad).
00:07:10 Short interview with Norbert Aust
We talk to Norbert Aust from the German skeptics (GWUP) and Homeopathy Information Network about their 50K€ Homeopathy Challenge
00:18:43 This Week in Skepticism
James Braid (19 June 1795 – 25 March 1860) was a Scottish surgeon and “gentleman scientist”. He was a significant innovator in the treatment of club-foot and an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy. He is regarded by many as the first genuine “hypnotherapist” and the “Father of Modern Hypnotism”.
- https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/b/jamesbraid.html
- http://www.historyofhypnosis.org/james-braid/
- https://www.ukhypnosis.com/2010/07/31/the-origin-of-hypnotism-james-braids-life-work/
00:22:16 Skeptical News
- UK: High Court ruling: legal challenge by BHA rejected
https://www.england.nhs.uk/2018/06/nhs-england-welcomes-homeopathy-court-ruling/
http://edzardernst.com/2018/06/there-is-no-robust-evidence-to-support-homeopathy-which-is-at-best-a-placebo-and-a-misuse-of-scarce-nhs-funds/
https://goodthinkingsociety.org/homeopaths-legal-challenge-to-nhs-england-fails/ - Ireland: Ireland to vote on removing blasphemy as an offence:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/ireland-blasphemy-referendum - Sweden: Critical thinking requires factual knowledge:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20004508.2018.1475200 - UK: Homeopaths against vaccination in the UK:
http://edzardernst.com/2018/06/homeopaths-against-vaccination-the-decision-to-vaccinate-and-how-you-implement-that-decision-is-yours-and-yours-alone/ - Germany: Website against Osteopathy:
https://susannchen.info/?p=3295
https://blog.gwup.net/2018/06/12/das-phantom-osteopathie/ - Serbia: Mum shares devastating pictures of daughter’s slow death from measles:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/06/14/mum-shares-devastating-pictures-daughters-slow-death-measles-7632488/ - Hungary: Hungarian government’s latest and most serious attack on science: https://hungarytoday.hu/orban-govt-plans-greater-control-over-academy-of-sciences-budget-which-critics-call-assault-on-academic-freedom/
https://index.hu/tudomany/2018/06/15/az_mta_kiall_a_fuggetlensegeert_a_kormany_tervezetevel_szemben/ https://444.hu/2018/06/15/lovasz-laszlo-nem-lat-garanciat-arra-hogy-megorizhetik-az-mta-es-a-tudomanyos-elet-fuggetlenseget
https://index.hu/tudomany/2018/06/14/az_uj_koltsegvetes_a_tudomany_fuggetlenseget_veszelyezteti/ - Spain: ARP-SAPC petitioning the Prime Minister of Spain for better policy decisions:
http://www.escepticos.es/node/5810 - Sweden: Karolinska Institutet’s clash with a journal over the question of retracting an article by Macchiarini:
https://retractionwatch.com/2018/06/07/karolinska-told-a-journal-to-retract-a-paper-by-macchiarini-it-refused-the-story-didnt-end-there/ - Hungary: Package for families of newborns features pseudoscience
https://index.hu/tudomany/2018/05/29/homeopatia_babacsomag_promobox_homeomami_emmi/
00:40:48 Pontus Pokes the Pope
- Abortion is equivalent to Nazi crimes:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/06/16/pope-francis-abortion-equivalent-nazi-eugenics-crimes/707661002/
00:43:05 Really Wrong
- Really Wrong: Swedish authorities spends lots of money on “Climate Therapy”
https://www.aktuellhallbarhet.se/klimatangestterapi-far-hundratusentals-kronor-fran-klimatklivet/
00:45:50 Quote
“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.”
/ Galileo Galilei, Italian polymath /
00:47:35 Outro
00:48:50 Out-takes