On this week’s episode we celebrate the new era of commercial space flight brought about by SpaceX, then a bit of skeptical history, talking about Gérard Sède and the Priory of Sion hoax.
After poking the Pope we bring you an update on the latest issues with COVID-19, including vaccine hesitancy on the rise, the fear from the second wave versus those who deny the existence of the pandemic, survaillence making people suspicious, how the development of a vaccine is doing and France banning the use of Hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.
In the news this week:
– A new craze lacking any evidence and called “Lightning Process”
– The truth revealed about the 5GBioShield USB key
– “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” off the shelves in the UK
– New study to show how confidence drives confirmation bias
– Austrian homeopaths trying to build distrust in GWUP
– A low quality study into the role of alternative medicine in the advance of vaccine hesitancy
Italian doctor Alberto Zangrillo gets this week’s Really Wrong price for claiming that the SARS-CoV-2 virus no longer exists
Enjoy!
Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week in Skepticism; Pontus Pokes the Pope; COVID-19 Update; News; Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes
Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:51 GREETINGS
Commercial space flight is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52867494
0:07:59 This Week in Skepticism
Gérard de Sède (born 5 June 1921) helped create Priory of Sion hoa
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_de_S%C3%A8de
- http://www.midi-france.info/060600_sede.htm
- http://www.languedocmysteries.info/prioryofsion.htm
- https://www.coursehero.com/file/p18c820/The-Priory-of-Sion-was-started-in-France-in-1956-by-a-skillful-liar-named/
0:13:52 PONTUS POKES THE POPE
Francis the caveman: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/05/pope-closes-marathon-weekend-saying-holy-spirit-doesnt-see-left-and-right/
0:17:27 COVID-19 Update
- What’s next?
- https://blog.gwup.net/2020/05/28/repraesentative-umfrage-20-prozent-der-bundesbuerger-glauben-an-corona-verschwoerungsmythen/
- http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/statements/2020/statement-recovery-must-lead-to-a-different-economy,-an-economy-of-well-being
- https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-what-a-second-wave-might-look-like-138980
- https://theconversation.com/mobile-data-shows-which-european-countries-took-lockdown-seriously-138758
- http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/communicable-diseases/influenza/news/news/2020/5/20192020-influenza-season-repurposing-surveillance-systems-for-covid-19
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-cases/russia-plans-coronavirus-vaccine-clinical-trials-in-two-weeks-report-idUSKBN2360BJ?il=0
- France bans hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment
0:29:29 NEWS
- UK: The ‘Lightning Process’ – not very convincing
- UK: 5GBioShield USB key reloaded – and debunked
- UK: A magazine spreading misleading health claims withdrawn from shelves
- UK: New study shows how confidence drives confirmation bias
- AUSTRIA: Homeopaths attempt to built distrust in GWUP
- SPAIN: Vaccine hesitancy and the role of alternative medicine
0:55:21 REALLY WRONG
Alberto Zangrillo, Director of the Terapia intensiva del San Raffaele in Milan, for saying that SARS-CoV-2 no longer exists
1:01:12 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance with his instincts, he will accept it even on the slenderest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.”
/Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate/
1:02:39 OUTRO
1:03:54 Out-takes