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TheESP – Ep. #415 – Artifact or Arti-fiction?

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This week we’ve had some feedback regarding AI – always glad to hear from our listeners! In TWISH we hear about Charles Clermont-Ganneau, famous French archeologist with a flare for spotting fake artifacts. Then we turn to the news:

  • INTERNATIONAL: Fossil forgery – famous specimen shown to be fake, and it is not alone
  • FRANCE: Experts identify Moscow-based disinformation network
  • GREECE: Legalization of same sex marriage

Good news for once! The French National Assembly has adopted a new law aimed at charlatans, and sects or sect leaders who tries to influence their followers to reject science based medicine. We think that is worth a Really Right Award!

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Right; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

  • Listener feedback regarding AI

0:08:50 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:15:10 NEWS

0:31:54 REALLY RIGHT

0:36:11 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    The language of experience is more authoritative than all kinds of reasoning: facts can destroy our reasoning, not vice versa.
    Allesandro Volta (18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827), Italian physicist and chemist who was a pioneer of electricity and power and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer of methane. /

0:38:02 OUTRO

0:39:17 OUT-TAKES