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TheESP – Ep. #385 – It’s getting hot out there

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…plus Nicola Throp tells all about QED!
This week we’re saved once again by Brian Eggo, as we suddenly find ourselves very short on staff. What a guy!

Some initial info is followed by an interview with Nicola Throp, one of the brilliant members of the QED organizing team. In TWISH we hear about Carl Vogt, the German scientist, philosopher and, not least, politician who was born this week in 1817. In Pontus absence, Brian Bashes the Bishop (luckily, not exactly what it sounds like), after which we turn to the news:

  • SWITZERLAND: Alternative medicine on the decline?
  • INTERNATIONAL / UK: June is hottest month on record, in the UK and globally
  • INTERNATIONAL: Aspartame to be feared and avoided?

Yet another Heilpraktiker, this one known only as Torben K., receives a well deserved Really Wrong Award as well as penal consequences due to his penile and lethal mistreatment of a customer. We end by a quote by Jane Marcet, a feminist and a science advocate who were at least a century before her time.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; Interview; TWISH; Brian Bashes The Bishop; News; Really Wrong; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

0:07:19 INTERVIEW

0:21:28 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:26:29 BRIAN BASHES THE BISHOP

0:32:28 NEWS

0:50:58 REALLY WRONG

0:55:19 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    I can assure you that the greatest pleasure I derive from success is the hope of doing good by the propagation of useful truths amongst a class of people, who, excepting in a popular familiar form, would never have become acquainted with them.
    Jane Marcet (1 January 1769 – 28 June 1858), innovative, successful writer of popular introductory science books. She also broke new ground with Conversations on Political Economy. In her prefaces, Marcet addressed whether such knowledge was suitable for women, arguing against objections and stating that public opinion supported her view. /

0:57:38 OUTRO

0:58:33 OUT-TAKES