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Make sure to check out András’ Skeptics in the Pub Online talk next week on 25 September! In TWISH we meet Ötzi the Ice Man, and a mystery death from 5300 years ago and a invaluable source of archeological science. Then we look to the news:

• ALBANIA: Albania appoints AI-created ‘minister’
• ITALY: Arson attack in Sardinia linked to climate misinformation
• SWEDEN: Princess Madeleine launches her brand of Weleda based cosmetics
• AUSTRIA: Nominations now open for the Golden Board 2025
• SWITZERLAND: Switzerland didn’t ban mammograms

Viktor Orbán has done it again, and gets his sixth(!) Really Wrong Award, this time for doubling down on crime information.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

• András’ SITP Online talk
  • Sitp.online: https://sitp.online/show/the-myth-factory-legends-invented-heroes-and-fake-histories-as-selling-points-in-tourism-andras-pinter/

0:07:29 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 19 September 1991: Discovery of Ötzi
  • Pub Med: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3418206/
  • Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/5000-year-old-iceman-may-have-benefited-sophisticated-health-care-system
  • Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/63682-otzi-ice-man-took-medical-treatment.html

0:21:06 NEWS

• ALBANIA: Albania appoints AI-created ‘minister’
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/albania-diella-ai-minister-public-procurement
• ITALY: Arson attack in Sardinia linked to climate misinformation
  • PVTime: https://www.pvtime.org/arson-destroys-5000-solar-panels-at-sardinian-energy-park/
  • EuroNews: https://www.euronews.com/2024/09/27/reap-the-whirlwind-renewable-energy-speculation-brewing-a-storm-in-sardinia
• SWEDEN: Princess Madeleine launches her brand of Weleda based cosmetics
  • Omni: https://tt.omni.se/svalt-intresse-for-prinsessan-madeleines-lansering/a/o3XmOm
  • Folkvett: https://folkvett.vof.se/shared/article/det-svenska-kungahuset-och-weleda-affaren/aUjyuS3w
• AUSTRIA: Nominations now open for the Golden Board 2025
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2025/09/09/wer-verdient-das-goldene-brett-nominierungsphase-fuer-die-13-verleihung-ab-sofort-offen/
• SWITZERLAND: Switzerland didn’t ban mammograms
  • Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/switzerland-mammograms-ban/

0:51:22 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Viktor Orbán gets facts on violent crimes totally wrong, then doubles down
  • TV4: https://www.tv4.se/artikel/5JBHxybXGR1LQsCeceeqjC/orban-raeknade-misshandel-som-mord-tog-fel-pa-7-000-procent
  • Omni: https://omni.se/orbans-nya-attack-vi-ar-oroliga-for-er/a/25Qxaq
  • BRÅ: https://bra.se/statistik/statistik-om-rattsvasendet/konstaterade-fall-av-dodligt-vald#h-Aktuellstatistik

0:56:33 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought.”
/ Albert Szent-Györgyi (September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986), Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. /

0:57:55 OUTRO

0:59:18 OUT-TAKES