In this week’s TWISH we take a look at the most skeptical saint, Doubting Thomas – not that we feel that he got everything right. In the news today we take a look at the following:
- INTERNATIONAL / SWEDEN: Rising nicotine addiction in teens
- HUNGARY: GP about to leave practice due to harassment from antivaxxers
- SWEDEN: Breast cancer patients turn away from conventional treatment despite 93% survival rates
- INTERNATIONAL: Liam Neeson narrates anti-vaccination pseudo-documentary
A bunch of contrarians that call themselves BMTIG insists that there must be a conspiracy behind the sinking of the MS Estonia – no matter how much the facts say otherwise and for that they ar Really Wrong.
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:51 GREETINGS
0:05:33 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 21 December: Feast day of Thomas the Apostle (aka ‘Doubting Thomas’)
0:17:29 NEWS
- INTERNATIONAL / SWEDEN: Rising nicotine addiction in teens
- HUNGARY: GP about to leave practice due to harassment from antivaxxers
- SWEDEN: Breast cancer patients turn away from conventional treatment despite 93% survival rates
- INTERNATIONAL: Liam Neeson narrates anti-vaccination pseudo-documentary
0:52:12 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: The Baltic Marine Technical Investigation Group (BMTIG) keeps promoting conspiracy theories regarding M/S Estonia
- DN: https://www.dn.se/sverige/haveriutredare-estonia-var-inte-sjovardig/
- Youtube (press conf.): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y487WvWCv0I
1:07:40 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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I do not believe in a god who has or had a human form and to whom I owe my existence. I believe it is the man who created God in his image and not the other way round.”
/ Richard Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022), Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician.
The quote is from his autobiograph ‘One Life: An Autobiography’ (1983) /
1:09:17 OUTRO
1:10:40 OUT-TAKES