– don’t listen to the fish and chips physician
This week we have several things to get through before the actual show – the Swedish Skeptics at the international book fair in Gothenburg, the Hungarian Skeptics at the upcoming HungaroCon, the new book from the SGU (The Skeptic’s Guide to the Future), a listener question about organic farming and reactions to the Italian elections. In TWISH (This Week in Skeptical History) we hear about the Voronezh UFO incident.
Then it’s time for the news:
- CONFLICT IN EUROPE: Sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines – watch out for the conspiracy theories
- GERMANY: SkepKon 2023 – Call for papers
- UK / GERMANY: UK and German politicans behind American counterparts in tweeting misinformation
- GERMANY: Eurocom press release for the promotion of quackery
- SWEDEN: Pontus Pokes the Politicians: The new second vice speaker of the parliament is a science denier – do we need to name her party?
- UK: As was expected: government lifted ban on fracking
The Award for being Really Wrong goes to German-Swedish head physician Ute Krüger, who ‘feels’ that covid vaccines cause ‘turbo cancer’ and the head of the medicinal region, Johan Rosenqvist, who thinks that’s quite OK.
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:54 GREETINGS
- Swedish Skeptics: Swedish Skeptics at the Gothenburg Book Fair – huge success!
- Hungarian Skeptics: Hungarian Skeptics at HungaroCon 2022
- Hungarocon: https://www.hungarocon.hu
- Skeptics´ Guide to the Future: The SGU has new Book out! The Skeptic’s Guide to the Future
- Listener feedback: Listener feedback: Stefan wonders if organic is the same as ‘ekologisk’ or ecological farming
- Science Direct: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/ecological-farming
- SLU.se: https://www.slu.se/centrumbildningar-och-projekt/epok-centrum-for-ekologisk-produktion-och-konsumtion/vad-sager-forskningen/vaxtskydd-och-bekampningsmedel/ingen-eller-mycket-liten-anvandning-av-kemisk-bekampning-i-ekologiskt-lantbruk/
- Italian elections: Italian election results concerning
- Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/ap/2022/09/26/italy-shifts-to-the-right-as-voters-reward-melonis-party/
- the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/giorgia-meloni-wins-in-italy-proof-that-even-a-seemingly-successful-government-can-fall-victim-to-populism-191278
- the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/giorgia-meloni-and-the-return-of-fascism-how-italy-got-here-190866
0:20:00 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 27 September 1989: The Voronezh UFO incident
0:28:09 NEWS
- CONFLICT IN EUROPE: Sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines – watch out for the conspiracy theories
- GERMANY: SkepKon 2023 – Call for papers
- UK / GERMANY: UK and German politicans behind American counterparts in tweeting misinformation
- GERMANY: Eurocom press release for the promotion of quackery
- SWEDEN: Pontus Pokes the Politicians: The new second vice speaker of the parliament is a science denier – do we need to name her party?
- UK: As was expected: government lifted ban on fracking
0:53:03 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: SWEDEN: Chief physician claims covid vaccines cause cancer. Her online videos get hundreds of thousands of views. The head of the region does nothing since she does it ‘in her spare time’
0:56:33 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
-
“
Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.”
/ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831), German philosopher. He is considered one of the most important figures in German idealism and one of the founding figures of modern Western philosophy. /
0:57:41 OUTRO
0:58:56 OUT-TAKES