ESC Liverpool 2026 tickets are now available! Get yours now! Chris French wrote a eulogy for Nick Pope, UFO profile who passed away, and in TWISH we hear about Gustave Le Bon who identified the mass psychology of crowds over 150 years ago. Then we head for the news:
- UK: Humanists UK celebrates 130th anniversary
- INTERNATIONAL: Haunted houses explained?
- INTERNATIONAL: Skeptical Science experiment results and lessons learned
- NETHERLANDS / SWEDEN: To meat or not to meat?
- SWITZERLAND: The endless loop of homeopathy finally broken?
Jehovah’s Witnesses’ ‘clarification’ regarding blood transfusions is still harmful and stupid, and for that they get this week’s award for being Really Wrong.
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:52 GREETINGS
- Chris French’s tribute to Nick Pope
- ESC Liverpool 2026 tickets now available!
- ESC Liverpool: https://escliverpool.org/
0:07:29 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 7 May 1841: French polymath and author of “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” Gustave Le Bon was born
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Le_Bon
0:15:30 NEWS
- UK: Humanists UK celebrates 130th anniversary
- INTERNATIONAL: Haunted houses explained?
- Frontiers in Behaviour Neuroscience: https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2026/04/27/vibrating-pipes-restless-spirits-increased-stress-irritability-infrasound-exposure-paranormal-experiences-frontiers-behavioral-neuroscience
- Frontiers in Behaviour Neuroscience: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2026.1729876/full
- INTERNATIONAL: Skeptical Science experiment results and lessons learned
- Skeptical Science: https://skepticalscience.com/egu26-presentation-about-sks-experiment.html
- NETHERLANDS / SWEDEN: To meat or not to meat?
- SWITZERLAND: The endless loop of homeopathy finally broken?
0:37:54 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: Jehovah’s Witnesses’ ‘clarification’ re blood transfusions is still harmful and stupid
0:44:35 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”
/ Gustave Le Bon (7 May 1841 – 13 December 1931), a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. /
0:45:39 OUTRO
0:47:02 OUT-TAKES