The ECDC has declared January cervical cancer awareness month which we support 100%. We also want encourage local skeptical actions such as speaking up when companies promote nonsense and Pontus gives us an example of how easy it can be, if you just take a few minutes and speak up. We also mention that the planets are lined up in a cool way at the moment, so turn your eyes to the skies! In TWISH we hear about Vladimir Bekhterev who was at least as significant in psychology as Pavlov was, but made the mistake to talk badly about Stalin and as a result was almost entirely written out of history. Then, we look at the news:
- INTERNATIONAL: It’s confirmed: 2024 was the first year with an average temperature 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
- INTERNATIONAL: Pro-Russia disinformation pops up on BlueSky
- BALTIC SEA: Damaged cables in Baltic Sea not Russian sabotage?
- EU: X asked to disclose internal documents about algorithms over fears that far right gets boost
- UK: Meta and the scrapping of fact-checking
The Croatian deputy prime minister Josip Dabro confirms all our preconceived ideas regarding stupid populist politicians and gets the week’s award for being Really Wrong.
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:50 GREETINGS
- January is Cervical Cancer Awareness month!
- Scientology commercial ads at Swedish shopping-mall
- January’s spectacular ‘planet parade’
0:15:50 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 20 January 1857: Vladimir Bekhterev was born (father of objective neurology)
0:25:46 NEWS
- INTERNATIONAL: It’s confirmed: 2024 was the first year with an average temperature 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
- INTERNATIONAL: Pro-Russia disinformation pops up on BlueSky
- BALTIC SEA: Damaged cables in Baltic Sea not Russian sabotage?
- EU: X asked to disclose internal documents about algorithms over fears that far right gets boost
- UK: Meta and the scrapping of fact-checking
0:45:49 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: Croatian deputy PM Josip Dabro resigns over video of him firing gun through car window
0:49:16 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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The fact that Trump could be re-elected shows that we are living in a completely new era – a time when democracies are no longer able to protect themselves against the lie as a political tool.”
/ Åsa Wikforss (25 July 1961 – ), Swedish professor of theoretical philosophy at Stockholm University, and a member of the Swedish Academy and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2020 she received the Enlightener of the Year Award from the Swedish Skeptics (VoF). The quote is from an article in the newspaper DN, published on 20 January 2025 on the occasion of Donald Trumps second inauguration as president of the USA. /
0:53:17 OUTRO
0:54:32 OUT-TAKES