Segments:
Intro; Greetings; Pontus Pokes the Pope; This Week in Skepticism; News; Really Right; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes
Claire Klingenberg sits in for András on this episode where the Pope blames the devil for revealing all the bad stuff he is responsible for.
This week in 1895: The birth of Chiropractic.
Also, fake cancer cures take several hits, an overlooked astrophysicist finally gets the recognition she deserves and a brave pharmacist in Germany takes a stand against homeopathy. We learn that cannibalism is bad for you and other good stuff as we celebrate the newly announced Ig Nobel prizes.
Short random announcement: Please note that it must be parasite season, but that reason and logic will always prevail.
We conclude this unusually positive episode by a Really Right award concerning CRISPR research.
Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe
Show Notes:
00:00:26 Greetings
00:04:40 Pontus Pokes the Pope
The Pope blames the devil for revealing abuse – and boy is he!
- http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/09/13/church-commissioned-report-german-catholic-priests-abused-more-than-3600-kids/
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6155521/Vatican-official-Sex-abuse-scandal-churchs-9-11.html
00:07:20 This Week: The birth of chiropractic on 18 September 1895
- https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/chiropractic-a-brief-overview-part-i/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_controversy_and_criticism
00:10:21 Skeptical News
LATVIA: European Cancer Patient Coalition revokes the membership of Virotherapy Foundation a.k.a. Rigvir
- http://rigvirfacts.com/2018/09/13/ecpc-revokes-the-membership-of-virotherapy-foundation-a-k-a-rigvir/
- http://rigvirfacts.com/2018/09/12/rigvir-infiltrates-cancer-patient-organisation/
INTERNATIONAL: Swedes share more fake news than any others in Europe
UK: Good Thinking Society gets cancer quackery investigation published in BMJ
- https://goodthinkingsociety.org/bmj-publishes-good-thinkings-cancer-fundraising-investigation/
- https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3829
INTERNATIONAL: Measles update – Vaccine Confidence Survey
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-romanians-reject-a-key-weapon-as-nation-battles-a-measles-outbreak-1536139801
- https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2016/vaccine_confidence_survey_2016.html
INTERNATIONAL: eBay removes fake cancer ‘zapper’ treatments from sale due to work by Good Thinking Society
UK: British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3m award for pulsar work
GERMANY: A Pharmacist in Bavaria has removed all homeopathy from her displays
INTERNATIONAL: Ig Nobel prizes 2018: the European recipients
00:40:28 Really Right: Researchers are fighting back on the EU decision that Crispr should be banned as GMO
- https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=406&artikel=7023945
- https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=406&artikel=7025031
- https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=406&artikel=7042396
00:42:35 Quote and Farewell
“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge”
Enrico Fermi, Italian and naturalized-American physicist and the creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor
00:43:44 Outro
00:44:59 Out-takes