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Episode #073

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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

  1. Our previous interview with Liubomir Baburov
  2. The Ratio 2017 event on Facebook
  3. The webpage of Ratio
  4. 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

  1. INTERNATIONAL: eBay removes Black Salve from their listings after Good Thinking Society’s investigation
  2. INTERNATIONAL: Countries not taking the 2 degree climate target seriously
  3. SPAIN: Two annual prizes awarded at the last general assembly of ARP-SAPC
  4. SPAIN: 600 events since 2010 in Spain for science and reason tracked
  5. UK: UK Foreign Secretary’s false claims
  6. GERMANY: A new skeptical podcast
  7. GERMANY: Podcast award given to “Schlaulicht (Smart Light)” (in German)
  8. SWEDEN: Metro first page on 3 May intentionally full of Fake News
  9. HUNGARY: Hungarian family and naturopath sentenced to prison for causing death of child
  10. IRELAND: Stephen Fry faces blasphemy probe after God comments
  11. 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