Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week in Skepticism; News; Pontus Pokes the Pope: Really Wrong / Really Right; Quote; Outro; Out-takes
Show Notes:
00:00:29 Greetings
Catching up on our slightly erratic release schedule (only two days after the previous episode!):
Jelena takes over the role of host as András is stuck in a hotel somewhere, with WiFi only slightly better than smoke signals. We talk about TEDx in London, while Dobby the skeptical cat argues that you should become a patron of the show.
00:07:13 This Week in Skepticism
Immanuel Velikovsky (10 Jun. 1895 – 17 Nov. 1979), Russian independent scholar best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950.
- https://www.thenation.com/article/visionary-fringe/
- http://www.badarchaeology.com/other-chronologies/immanuel-velikovsky/
00:14:10 Skeptical News
- GERMANY: Measles outbreak in Cologne and the area of Bonn
http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/region/koeln-und-rheinland/F%C3%A4lle-von-Masern-in-K%C3%B6ln-nehmen-drastisch-zu-article3860623.html - GERMANY : Homeopath fined for treating cancer:
http://edzardernst.com/2018/05/this-is-what-happens-if-you-treat-cancer-with-homeopathy/
https://www.halternerzeitung.de/Staedte/Haltern/Aerztin-zahlt-10000-Euro-aus-gutem-Willen-1289724.html - Sweden: New yearly Hans Rosling Day at the Nobel Centre:
https://bestofsweden.savvity.net/discussions/5b02ba0b1d41c8561a01d238-hans-rosling-commemorated-with-annual-day
http://time.com/5224618/bill-gates-hans-rosling-factfulness/
00:25:10 Pontus Pokes the Pope
- God loves you ‘even if you are gay'(!):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/20/pope-juan-carlos-cruz
00:28:24 Really Wrong / Really Right
- Really Wrong: Stupid study claims health problems are directly due to too much ‘screen time’, discounting other factors
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-44226888 https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-018-1063-1 - Really Right: Bibsam Consortium for not renewing Elsevier agreement
http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-for-open-access-cancels-agreement-with-elsevier/
00:33:23 Radio Spot
00:34:18 Quote
“In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”
/ David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist /
00:35:35 Outro
00:36:50 Out-takes