Russia takes post-truth to new levels
Mostly bad news this week, but on the bright side we have The Skeptic’s Guide soon to come out with their new book The Skeptic’s Guide to the Future (pre-order it now!) and the upcoming European Skeptics Congress in Vienna. See you there! This week we celebrate Sir David Attenborough‘s 96th birthday and we take a look at Pope Francis and his dealings with the other “Pope”, Patriarch Kirill, also known as Putin’s altar boy. Then we go through some news:
- RUSSIA: Russian long-term recruitment programme disguised as education
- INTERNATIONAL: Measles is the new-old threat
- UKRAINE: The fake news factory on this side of the fence…
- SPAIN: Families in despair over IM Academy: ‘The crypto-sect has kidnapped our children’
- INTERNATIONAL: Hepatitis cases cause for concern – and the disinformation factory keeps rolling
- SWEDEN: Macchiarini trial started this week – Procecution says surgery was experimental, cruel, and against all science and evidence
- UK: GCSE in Natural History announced and brings hope for environmentalism
Pontus gets really angry with Putin’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov this week and hands him a hard Really Wrong Award. There’s also a “Bonus Bad Award” to the Russian propaganda machine that implies that Swedes are Nazis.
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; Pontus Pokes The Pope; News; Really Wrong; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:53 GREETINGS
- TheSGU: Coming book: The Skeptics’ Guide to the Future
- ESC 2022: The European Skeptics Congress – spread the word among your friends
0:10:14 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 8 May 1926: Sir David Attenborough was born
- Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Attenborough
- UN: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1116682
- The Migration of the Skeptics: https://youtu.be/xgOMiyjitjA
0:17:16 PONTUS POKES THE POPE
- Pontus Pokes Putin’s Pope
0:25:37 NEWS
- RUSSIA: Russian long-term recruitment programme disguised as education
- INTERNATIONAL: Measles is the new-old threat
- WHO Europe: https://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-releases/2022/ukraine-immediate-steps-needed-to-prevent-a-measles-outbreak-due-to-the-ongoing-war-and-low-vaccination-rates,-warns-who
- the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/28/measles-cases-surge-nearly-80-in-wake-of-covid-chaos-with-fears-other-diseases-could-follow
- UKRAINE: The fake news factory on this side of the fence…
- SPAIN: Families in despair over IM Academy: ‘The crypto-sect has kidnapped our children’
- INTERNATIONAL: Hepatitis cases cause for concern – and the disinformation factory keeps rolling
- SWEDEN: Macchiarini trial started this week – Procecution says surgery was experimental, cruel, and against all science and evidence
- UK: GCSE in Natural History announced and brings hope for environmentalism
0:50:44 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: Lavrov says Hitler was part Jewish and that Jews usually are the most ardent anti-Semites
- Bonus Bad: Russian campaign to paint Swedes as Nazis
0:57:01 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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In my position you can’t go out and just say, “I think,” because it’s a very serious thing. So if you get up and say climate is changing because of CO2 emissions, you better bloody well be right.”
/ Sir David Attenborough, (8 May 1926 -) English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author /
0:58:21 OUTRO
0:59:36 OUT-TAKES
CHARITIES FOR UKRAINE
- Ukraine Humanitarian Fund
- Ukraine Humanitarian Fund: https://crisisrelief.un.org/t/ukraine
- Razom For Ukraine
- Razom For Ukraine: https://razomforukraine.humanitru.com/donate
- The Kyiv Independent
- The Kyiv Independent : https://kyivindependent.com/
- UNICEF
- Migration Aid
- Migration Aid: https://migrationaid.org/