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TheESP – Ep. #324 – The sky is green with purple elephants

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Russia takes post-truth to new levels

Mostly bad news this week, but on the bright side we have The Skeptic’s Guide soon to come out with their new book The Skeptic’s Guide to the Future (pre-order it now!) and the upcoming European Skeptics Congress in Vienna. See you there! This week we celebrate Sir David Attenborough‘s 96th birthday and we take a look at Pope Francis and his dealings with the other “Pope”, Patriarch Kirill, also known as Putin’s altar boy. Then we go through some news:

  • RUSSIA: Russian long-term recruitment programme disguised as education
  • INTERNATIONAL: Measles is the new-old threat
  • UKRAINE: The fake news factory on this side of the fence…
  • SPAIN: Families in despair over IM Academy: ‘The crypto-sect has kidnapped our children’
  • INTERNATIONAL: Hepatitis cases cause for concern – and the disinformation factory keeps rolling
  • SWEDEN: Macchiarini trial started this week – Procecution says surgery was experimental, cruel, and against all science and evidence
  • UK: GCSE in Natural History announced and brings hope for environmentalism

Pontus gets really angry with Putin’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov this week and hands him a hard Really Wrong Award. There’s also a “Bonus Bad Award” to the Russian propaganda machine that implies that Swedes are Nazis.

Enjoy!

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

0:00:53 GREETINGS

0:10:14 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:17:16 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

0:25:37 NEWS

0:50:44 REALLY WRONG

0:57:01 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    In my position you can’t go out and just say, “I think,” because it’s a very serious thing. So if you get up and say climate is changing because of CO2 emissions, you better bloody well be right.
    Sir David Attenborough, (8 May 1926 -) English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian and author /

0:58:21 OUTRO

0:59:36 OUT-TAKES

CHARITIES FOR UKRAINE