This week brings you a segment on Florence Nightingale, events across Europe and skeptical news including the latest success story of the Good Thinking Society with getting eBay to remove a dangerous product (Black Salve) from their listings, climate targets not being taken seriously, annual prizes awarded by ARP-SAPC in Spain, Spanish skeptical events mounting to 600 since 2010, the UK foreign secretary making false claims, German podcast award for Schlaulicht and a new skeptical podcast on the market in Germany called Nachgefragt. Also, Metro in Sweden comes out with a demonstrative issue intentionally full of fake news, Hungarian family and their naturopath sentenced to prison for killing an infant out of carelessness, Stephen Fry and his blasphemy case in Ireland and Fiona O’Leary fighting against antivaccination nonsense in the form of a demonstration at the screening of Vaxxed.
If you’re interested in the events happening across Europe, please visit our calendar page.
Segments
Intro; Greetings & Feedback; This Week in Skepticism; Skeptical News; Really Wrong; Quote
Show notes:
00:00:00
INTRO music
00:00:27
Greetings & feedback
- Our previous interview with Liubomir Baburov
- The Ratio 2017 event on Facebook
- The webpage of Ratio
- CICAPFest website
00:15:52
This Week in Skepticism
Florence Nightingale (born 12 May 1820): Florence Nightingale – Nurse – Biography.com
00:19:57
Skeptical News
- INTERNATIONAL: eBay removes Black Salve from their listings after Good Thinking Society’s investigation
- Good Thinking Society: eBay removes listings for dangerous cancer ‘cure’ after investigation by Good Thinking
- INTERNATIONAL: Countries not taking the 2 degree climate target seriously
- SPAIN: Two annual prizes awarded at the last general assembly of ARP-SAPC
- Escepticos: The ‘Mario Bohoslavsky Award’ goes to Natalia Ruiz Zelmanovitch (in Spanish)
- Escepticos: The ‘Lupa Esceptica’ is given to José Miguel Mulet (in Spanish)
- SPAIN: 600 events since 2010 in Spain for science and reason tracked
- Escepticos: Map showing events since 2010 (in Spanish)
- UK: UK Foreign Secretary’s false claims
- GERMANY: A new skeptical podcast
- GWUP: New skeptical podcast: “Nachgefragt (Interview)” (in German)
- GERMANY: Podcast award given to “Schlaulicht (Smart Light)” (in German)
- GWUP: Podcast award goes to “Schlaulicht” (in German)
- SWEDEN: Metro first page on 3 May intentionally full of Fake News
- Metro: Metro’s front page filled with false news (in Swedish)
- HUNGARY: Hungarian family and naturopath sentenced to prison for causing death of child
- Index: Infant death in Agard: the naturopath also sent to prison (in Hungarian)
- IRELAND: Stephen Fry faces blasphemy probe after God comments
- IRELAND: Fiona O’Leary and their protest against the screening of Vaxxed
00:49:49
Really Wrong
The EU about GMO tomatoes
00:57:14
Skeptical Ads
00:59:14
Quote
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
/Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher/
01:01:24
Outro
01:02:39
Out-takes