Noah’s_Ark

This week summer is here (but András is not) and we get a tip from Bob on about good vaccine tracker. Blaise Pascal was born almost 400 years ago this week (how times fly) and Pope Francis gives Cardinal Marx some good PR while proving he still knows how to play the dictator card. Then we dive into the news:

• ‘Unseaworthy’ Noah’s Ark replica detained at Ipswich Waterfront
• Waldorf / Steiner school scandal in Sweden
• New law against ‘promotion of homosexuality’
• Follow-up: Doctor behind fake covid-19 tests and travelers’ certificates to stand trial

To round off, a gross pseudotreatment for babies gets the prize for being Really Wrong.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; This Week In Skepticism; Pontus Pokes the Pope; News; Really Wrong; Quote & Farewell; Outro; Out-takes

The Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe

0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

• Summer is here! András isn’t
• Interactive covid vaccination tracker
  • New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html

0:06:15 THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICISM

• Blaise Pascal was born on 19 June 1623
  • Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

0:09:23 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Francis refuses Marx’ resignation. He also gets 33 M€ from the Vatican bank do dispose of as he pleases
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2021/06/pope-francis-refuses-resignation-of-german-cardinal-commends-his-courage/
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/news-analysis/2021/06/as-new-report-released-vatican-bank-chief-says-bad-old-days-are-done/

0:17:00 NEWS

• UK: ‘Unseaworthy’ Noah’s Ark replica detained at Ipswich Waterfront
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-57363750
• SWEDEN: Waldorf / Steiner school scandal in Sweden
  • DN: https://www.dn.se/sverige/tvarvandningen-darfor-fick-waldorfskolan-solvik-vara-kvar/
• HUNGARY: New law against ‘promotion of homosexuality’
  • AFP: https://afp.omni.se/hungary-seeks-to-ban-promotion-of-homosexuality-in-schools/a/39rM8d
• SWEDEN: Follow-up: Doctor behind fake covid-19 tests and travelers’ certificates to stand trial
  • GP: https://www.gp.se/nyheter/g%C3%B6teborg/l%C3%A4karen-bakom-husdr-se-%C3%A5talas-f%C3%B6r-bedr%C3%A4geri-1.4924844

0:33:11 REALLY WRONG

• REALLY WRONG: Unnecessary surgery in new-borns the new alt-med
  • DN: https://www.dn.se/sverige/dn-granskar-i-slutna-facebookgrupper-uppmuntras-foraldrar-fa-bebisars-tungband-klippta-djupt/
  • DN: https://www.dn.se/sverige/sa-uppmanas-foraldrar-att-stretcha-bebisarnas-sar-efter-tungbandsklipp/

0:43:04 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
/ Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662), French mathematician, philosopher and physicist. /

0:43:37 OUTRO

0:44:52 OUT-TAKES