Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week in Skepticism; News; Quote; Outro; Out-takes
Show Notes:
00:00:26 Greetings
- New book out by Sharon Hill Ernst: ‘Scientifical Americans‘
- First two episodes of Radio CICAP out
00:12:53 This Week in Skepticism
- Brian Deer’s landmark investigation into the Wakefield fraud
http://briandeer.com/mmr/st-mmr-reports.htm
00:18:04 Skeptical News
- INTERNATIONAL: Why do fake news work?
- INTERNATIONAL: A new info video on what it would be like to live on a flat Earth
- ITALY: Fake video circulating allegedly showing migrants as they destroy a police car in Italy
- EUROPE: Measeles Epidemic sweeping Europe, reaches UK
- INTERNATIONAL: Anti-vaccine sentiment associated with belief in conspiracy theories
- EUROPE: Susan Gerbic’s Adventures in Europe series on CSI
- ITALY: Massimo Polidoro to launch a new YouTube series
- ITALY: Myths and Secrets of the Colosseum on CSI’s website
01:00:53 Quote
“The essence of the scientific method is that it deals with problems as such and thus it seeks solutions, without prejudice or chauvinism. The question we ask is not who’s right, but what the truth is.”
/Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian biochemist and Nobel laureate/
01:03:01 Outro
01:04:16 Out-takes