Investigatori

– Czech / Slovak Skeptical TV-series ‘Investigátori’ renewed for second season!

The gang is reunited and there’s so much to talk about – memories of QED, the Ockham Award, the Rusty Razor and our upcoming Australian Tour. With sadness we note the passing of Kendrick Frazier and then we talk to Claire Klingenberg and Peter Pokorný regarding the second season(!) of their skeptical TV series ‘Investigátori‘ (‘The Investogators’). In TWISH we remember the Hungarian scientific communicator and TV personality József Öveges and then Frankie gets a poking for the latest Cardinal scandal.
Then it’s time for the news:

• INTERNATIONAL: COP27 now on!
• UK: Earthshot Prize announced
• INTERNATIONAL: Is Google funding climate change disinformation?
• INTERNATIONAL: Public more likely to support climate action if other countries commit as well
• EUROPE: Europe’s unvaccinated children
• GERMANY: INH press Release
• SWEDEN: New book out by Greta Thunberg
• FINLAND: Change to abortion laws in Finland
• POLAND: Tomasz Witkowski’s new book

Queen Consort Camilla goes to India to cleanse her chakras and for that she is Really Wrong.

Enjoy!

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

0:00:53 GREETINGS

• Best memories of QED 2022
• The BBC Disinformation Unit wins Skeptical Activism Ockham award
  • The Skeptic UK: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2022/10/the-bbc-disinformation-unit-wins-skeptical-activism-ockham-award/
• Global Warming Policy Foundation wins 2022 Rusty Razor award
  • The Skeptic UK: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2022/10/climate-change-denial-charity-global-warming-policy-foundation-wins-2022-rusty-razor-award/
• Full schedule of Australian tour (now updated on web site)
  • the ESP: https://theesp.eu/meet-us-live
• Kendrick Frazier, longtime editor of Skeptical Inquirer, has died at the age of 80
  • Center for Inquiry: https://centerforinquiry.org/news/kendrick-frazier-skeptical-inquirer-has-died-at-age-80/

0:14:59 INTERVIEW

• Claire Klingenberg and Peter Pokorný regarding their Skeptical TV-series ‘Investigátori’, (‘The Investigators’)
  • Gregi.net: https://www.gregi.net/clanky/dokumentarny-film-o-alternativnej-medicine-potrebuje-podporu-ludi/

0:20:28 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 10 November 1895: Birth of József Öveges, Hungarian science educator
  • Puskas.hu: http://www.puskas.hu/ttk/elet/95.html

0:23:51 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Cardinal abuse
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2022/11/french-cardinal-says-he-abused-14-year-old-girl-35-years-ago
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/11/despair-over-declining-numbers-shows-lack-of-faith-pope-tells-religious

0:28:03 NEWS

• INTERNATIONAL: COP27 now on!
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63458945
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63502762
• UK: Earthshot Prize announced
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63507781
• INTERNATIONAL: Is Google funding climate change disinformation?
  • Pro Publica: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-alphabet-ads-fund-disinformation-covid-elections
  • Climate Feedback: https://climatefeedback.org/googles-demonetization-misinformation-one-year-on/
• INTERNATIONAL: Public more likely to support climate action if other countries commit as well
  • Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221103104947.htm
• EUROPE: Europe’s unvaccinated children
  • Vaccines Today: https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/under-vaccinated-kids-where-are-europes-lost-children/
• GERMANY: INH press Release
  • INH: https://netzwerk-homoeopathie.info/frass-et-al-2020-update-zur-studienkritik/
• SWEDEN: New book out by Greta Thunberg
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/26/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg-review-global-warning
• FINLAND: Change to abortion laws in Finland
  • Omni.se: https://omni.se/finland-lattar-abortlagen-slopar-krav-pa-lakarutlatande/a/P447XX
• POLAND: Tomasz Witkowski’s new book
  • Science Based Medicine: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/tomasz-witkowski-busts-more-myths/

0:52:26 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Camilla went to India to cleanse her chakras
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2022/11/camilla-went-to-india-to-cleanse-her-chakras/

0:55:56 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“If your surgery doesn’t work better than a placebo, it means that the surgery doesn’t work, not that there is a placebo effect.”
/ Mike Hall, skeptic and podcaster, one of the organisers of QED /

0:59:03 OUT-TAKES