Believe it or not, there are more skeptical podcasts out there than ours – check out the Skeptic podcast for example, the newest one out there from the Skeptic UK. Pierre -Simon Laplace is this week’s topic for TWISH, and then we get into the news:
- SWEDEN: New study confirms: Tens of thousands of lives in Sweden saved by covid vaccines
- HUNGARY: State TV keeps citing Russian Defense Ministry’s unreliable data
- ITALY / UK: Tuscany approves assisted dying
- GERMANY: SkepKon 2025 now open for ticket purchases
- UK: Conference on Research Integrity
The Really Wrong Award this week goes to Viktor Orbán as the Budapest Pride festival is coming and he cannot resist exploiting it for his populistic propaganda. On the opposite side, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony is man enough to stand up to Orbán and for that he is Really Right!
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong / Really Right; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:51 GREETINGS
- The Skeptic Podcast – the new podcast of the Skeptic Magazine UK
- Skeptic UK: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/category/podcast/
- Skeptics with a K: https://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/skeptics-with-a-k
- The Know Rogan Experience: https://www.knowrogan.com/
0:09:45 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 5 March 1749: Pierre-Simon Laplace was born
- Chaos & Fractals: https://www.stsci.edu/~lbradley/seminar/laplace.html
- MacTutor: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/
0:18:49 NEWS
- SWEDEN: New study confirms: Tens of thousands of lives in Sweden saved by covid vaccines
- HUNGARY: State TV keeps citing Russian Defense Ministry’s unreliable data
- ITALY / UK: Tuscany approves assisted dying
- Euro News: https://www.euronews.com/health/2025/02/14/tuscany-becomes-italys-first-region-to-approve-assisted-suicide-for-people-with-incurable-
- Vatican News: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2025-02/italian-bishops-assisted-suicide-law-human-life.html
- Euro News: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/01/no-uk-government-isnt-offering-cash-bonuses-to-families-who-euthanise-elderly-relatives
- GERMANY: SkepKon 2025 now open for ticket purchases
- UK: Conference on Research Integrity
0:40:07 REALLY WRONG / REALLY RIGHT
- Really Wrong: Viktor Orbán attacks Budapest Pride
- Really Right: Budapest mayor Gergely Karácsony fights back
0:46:02 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.”
/ Edward Teller (15 January 1908 – 9 September 2003), Hungarian and American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as “the father of the hydrogen bomb”. /
0:49:01 OUTRO
0:50:23 OUT-TAKES