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TheESP – Ep.#251 – 1st of the Next 250

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This week we reflect a on the new vaccines that are coming. Annika sings(!) to celebrate the quiz performance of Pontus, Brian and Claire last week and then she tells us about a memorial for fallen aliens, announced ten years ago this week. Pontus Pokes the Pope for a whole lot of serious things and for liking a sexy butt on his Instagram account. Then we get into the news:

  • Patriarch Irinej and his Darwin-Award worthy story
  • New book out about teaching biology in schools with health education and skepticism
  • The Debunking Handbook 2020 – German translation now available
  • French debate about making covid-vaccination mandatory
  • Darwin’s notebooks reported stolen from Cambridge University Library
  • German Green Party no longer backs homeopathy
  • World Wild Web – A new critical thinking game
  • Spanish Government to decide what is harmful fake news
  • Portuguese court rules based on misunderstanding science of covid tests
  • Surprisingly, acupuncture is useless for people recovering from breast surgery
  • No, Danish study doesn’t show masks are useless

Also, the stupid (and very expensive) “Qi-tech” devices get this week’s Really Wrong award.

Enjoy!

Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week; Pontus Pokes the Pope; News; Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes

Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe

0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

0:13:22 THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICISM

  • On 2 December 2010 the Ukrainian newspaper “Бердичiв дiловий” (“Business Berdichev”) announced that group of UFOlogists decided to build a memorial to fallen aliens

0:17:15 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

0:28:39 NEWS

1:02:23 REALLY WRONG

1:07:53 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often long endure; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, as every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.”
/ Charles Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882), English naturalist, geologist and biologist /

1:09:50 OUTRO

1:11:04 OUT-TAKES