We start with some follow up from last week – Edward Bach is pronounced [batch], and we have some more thoughts on if plants can really appreciate music. In TWISH we celebrate(?) the birthday of Sally Morgan (‘Psychic Sally’) and find her neither convincing nor a nice person. Then we dig into the news:
- INTERNATIONAL: Ig Nobel prize winners 2024
- FRANCE: Brigitte Macron wins lawsuit against fortune-teller and journalist claimins she’s trans-gender
- FRANCE: Map Shows All French Churches ‘Set on Fire, Vandalized or Attacked in Recent Years’?
- GERMANY: Dubious homeopathy research funded by manufacturer
The Really Wrong Award this week goes to an old ‘friend’, pope Frankie himself.
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
0:00:26 INTRO
0:00:51 GREETINGS
- Follow up from last week:
- – How to pronounce Edward Bach
- – More on whether plants like music
0:07:28 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 20 September 1951: Birth of Sally Morgan, ‘psychic Sally’
- the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/15/psychic-sally-morgan-sacks-husband-son-in-law-abuse-sceptic
- BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-22988215
- the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/psychic-sally-morgan-s-revelations-about-dead-cyclist-upset-girlfriend-9788473.html
- the Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project: https://skepticzone.libsyn.com/the-skeptic-zone-689-19december2021
0:16:43 NEWS
- INTERNATIONAL: Ig Nobel prize winners 2024
- FRANCE: Brigitte Macron wins lawsuit against fortune-teller and journalist claimins she’s trans-gender
- FRANCE: Map Shows All French Churches ‘Set on Fire, Vandalized or Attacked in Recent Years’?
- GERMANY: Dubious homeopathy research funded by manufacturer
0:36:00 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: Pope Francis for being an unscientific anti-abortion twat and also for nonsense statements about the upcoming US election
0:42:53 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic… He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore their study was untainted by inaccuracies of perception. This meant he could discover truths which were independent of opinion of prejudice and which were more absolute then any previous knowledge.”
/ Simon Singh (19 September 1964 – ), British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist. /
0:45:11 OUTRO
0:46:26 OUT-TAKES