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TheESP – Ep. #362 – Wild pregnancies

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– but all’s well that ends Pell
This week we start by recommending that you check out Annika’s Skeptical Inquirer’s article about our trip down under, we hear about the Swedish Skeptic’s annual awards, the Hungarian Skeptics appearance on radio and a little bit about the fascinating art of art forensics. In TWISH it’s all about the high flying ancestors of Jean Luc Piccard – August and Jean Felix Piccard and the invention of the bathyscaphe and then Pontus catches up with the state of affairs in the Vatican, including the death of Cardinal Pell. After all that, it’s time for the news:

  • POLAND: Internet hoax suggests country’s territorial claims live on
  • SWEDEN: Dangerous trend of unassisted home births (aka. “freebirthing”)
  • UK: An institution in Oxford (?) starts veterinary chiropractic course
  • SWEDEN: Linda Karlström, antivaxxer and Confounderer of the Year 2019, sues the Swedish Government

A Really Right award goes out this week to the Norwegian Authorities that very sensibly declares that the Jehovah’s Witnesses are not worthy of the label ‘religion’ – not a day too early.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; Pontus Pokes The Pope; News; Really Right; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

0:19:11 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:29:41 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

0:36:11 NEWS

0:54:53 REALLY RIGHT

0:58:30 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    Once data are ruled out as arbiters among theories, those theories become pointless, just another clever intellectual game.
    Massimo Pigliucci, (January 16, 1964 – ), Liberian-Italian-American Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York, former co-host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast. /

1:00:25 OUTRO

1:01:40 OUT-TAKES