RFKjr

Swedish glaciers are disappearing and in TWISH we hear about the triumph for science when discovering Neptune. After that, it’s the news:

• INTERNATIONAL: This year’s Ig Nobel prizes
• FRANCE: Macrons finally push back on rumors regarding first lady’s gender
• UK / INTERNATIONAL: Does solving puzzles prevent dementia?
• EU: Meta and Google to block political ads under new regulations

RFK jr. (or little Bobby) claims that he has a ‘cure for autism’ and that’s such a face plant that he get’s a new Really Wrong Award, just two weeks after his previous.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

• Short on climate crisis: Swedish glaciers on the wain
  • Sveriges Radio: https://www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/atta-svenska-glaciarer-har-smalt-bort

0:05:56 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 23 September 1846: Neptune’s discovery as a triumph for the scientific method
  • Astronomy.com: https://www.astronomy.com/science/finding-neptune-how-we-discovered-the-eighth-planet/

0:14:42 NEWS

• INTERNATIONAL: This year’s Ig Nobel prizes
  • Improbable.com: https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2025
• FRANCE: Macrons finally push back on rumors regarding first lady’s gender
  • Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/22/brigitte-macron-trans/
• UK / INTERNATIONAL: Does solving puzzles prevent dementia?
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/sep/22/is-it-true-that-puzzles-prevent-dementia
  • PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40852373/
• EU: Meta and Google to block political ads under new regulations
  • DigWatch: https://dig.watch/updates/meta-and-google-to-block-political-ads-in-eu-under-new-regulations
  • EuroNews: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/09/17/media-sector-awaits-eu-commission-clarity-on-political-ads

0:46:07 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: ‘His Wrongness’ Bobby (RFK jr.) keeps pushing misinformation about autism
  • Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/09/22/leucovorin-autism-treatment-rfk/

0:50:15 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“The scholar must organise; science is built with facts as a house is built with stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of stones is a house.”
/ Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912), French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. /

0:51:19 OUTRO

0:52:41 OUT-TAKES