Segments:
Intro; Greetings; News; Pontus Pokes the Pope; Really Right; Farewell and Quote; Outro; Out-takes
Show Notes:
00:00:27 Greetings
While unfortunately Jelena is not present, this week we talk about an ET healer in the Netherlands before we share the latest updates on measles. The comes the outrageous fact that Germany has no official plan for a first contact situation and how religious taboos can cause trouble. El escéptico’s 50th issue is out now, while wet cupping is gaining ground in Amsterdam. Also, the pope gets poked again while pastafarianism doesn’t get recognised as a religion.
Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe
00:11:50 Skeptical News
NETHERLANDS: “ET Healer” not prosecuted for possible contribution to suicide
UK: Royal homeopath dies in a bicyle accident
INTERNATIONAL: MEASLES UPDATE: Finally it makes the news (but the reported numbers are too low)
GERMANY: No preparations for alien landing situations
- https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/08/20/germany-no-preparations-made-case-alien-landing/
- https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1005857/Alien-news-latest-UFO-contact-Earth-Germany-first-contact-plan
SWITZERLAND: Muslim couple denied Swiss citizenship over handshake refusal
SPAIN: Issue #50 of El Esceptico to be released
NETHERLANDS: Wet Cupping on the rise in Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS: Pastafarianism “not a religion” – rules Dutch court
00:30:50 Pontus Pokes the Pope: Frankie boy cannot handle the scandal
- https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/08/16/us/pennsylvania-catholic-church-vatican-response/index.html
- http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/20/pope-francis-urges-catholics-to-pray-and-fast-in-response-to-child-sex-abuse/
- https://www.snopes.com/ap/2018/08/20/pope-sex-abuse-showed-no-care-little-ones/
00:35:16 Really Right: Greta Thunberg, 15, takes a stand for climate
00:40:59 Farewell and Quote
“Of a number of variant hypotheses about the same facts, that one is true which shows why facts, which in the other hypotheses remain unrelated, are as they are, i.e., which demonstrates their orderly and rational mathematical connexion.”
/Johannes Kepler German astronomer and astrologer/
00:42:20 Outro
00:43:35 Out-takes