For over a decade we have mispronounced a certain publisher’s name (duh!) but it’s never too late to learn… The Swedish election results are more or less in, and hopefully it’s a sign of reason that the party spreading the most disinformation lost almost 15% of their seats in parliament. In TWISH we hear the mesmerizing story about Jean Sylvain Bailly who was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.
Then we turn to the news:
- SWEDEN: Measles outbreak
- AUSTRIA: Michael Frass gets his retracted article re-published
- INTERNATIONAL: New site has started to measure imbalance in media
We then have a Who’s Quacking? from AfD in Germany and hand out a Really Wrong Award to the UK parliament.
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Who’s Quacking?; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:51 GREETINGS
- It’s ‘Else-uh-fier’, stupid!
- Swedish election results
0:08:18 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 15 September 1736: Jean Sylvain Bailly was born
0:17:35 NEWS
- SWEDEN: Measles outbreak
- AUSTRIA: Michael Frass gets his retracted article re-published
- INTERNATIONAL: New site has started to measure imbalance in media
0:36:33 WHO’S QUACKING?
- Ulrich Siegmund (AfD) is a spreader of health disinformation
0:41:14 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: Assisted dying bill in UK fails again
0:46:00 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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The people who have sufficient passion for the truth to give the truth a chance to prevail, if it runs counter to their bias, are in a minority. How important is this ‘minority?’ It is difficult to say at this point, for, at the present time their influence on governmental decisions is not perceptible.”
/ Leó Szilárd (11 February 1917 – 30 May 1964), Hungarian-born American physicist, biologist and inventor who made numerous important discoveries in nuclear physics and the biological sciences. /
0:47:46 OUTRO
0:49:09 OUT-TAKES