This week we’re back with the regular segments discussing lots of different topics ranging from Chickenpox, SpaceX, Newton and Fake News to what happened #LastNightInSweden after all, how Bild is fighting falsehoods, March for Science across the world, Global Warming denial, Paleo diet, Metro in Sweden, What Doctor’s Don’t Tell You and more.
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Segments
Intro; Greetings & Feedback; This Week in Skepticism; Skeptical News; Logical Fallacy; Really Wrong; Quote
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
00:00:26
Greetings & feedback
00:16:01
This Week in Skepticism
Sir Isaac Newton English mathematician, astronomer and physicist
00:24:15
Skeptical News
- Bild opens up a new front in the war against fake news and bad journalism
- Bild.de: Ernst Elitz is the new ombudsman for readers (in German)
- NRK, Norwegian Public Service, tries new system to get quality on-line comments
- NRK: An experiment for a better comment field (in Norwegian)
- Climate denier amends Dutch Liberals election programme
- ECSO.org: Climate denier amends Dutch Liberals election programme
- nos.nl: VVD denies “climate skepticism” in his party (in Dutch)
- “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” now available in Hungarian
- ECSO.org: Hungarian version of “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” magazine is launched
- mno.hu: Here’s the magazine with the diet that can cure cancer (in Hungarian)
- Metro Sweden publishes “the Little Viral Monitor” for schools
- Metro.se: Introducing Metro Little Viral inspector for schoolchildren (in Swedish)
00:45:32
Logical Fallacy
Subjectivist Fallacy
00:47:30
Really Wrong
Archbishop Michael Neary of Tuam, Ireland
- Catholic News Agency: Critic slams ‘crazed claims’ about Ireland child burials
00:56:14
Radio Spots
- The Skeptic Zone (Australia)
- Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (International) – Facebook page
00:57:43
Quote
“It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.”
/Harriet Martineau-English scholar, writer and translator who was a friend of Charles Darwin./
00:58:37
Outro
00:59:52
Out-takes