TWISH

 

With Eggman at the helm, we close the year

We hear about Brian’s adventures at “Scotland’s most haunted hotel“, hear about the passing of biologist EO Wilson and rejoice at the (so far) successful journey of the James Webb telescope. In TWISH we learn why New Year’s Eve is known as “Sylvester” in many countries and then we look into truth behind Pope Francis’ families values. Then it is time for the year’s last news round:

• GERMANY: Covid demonstration strolls
• INTERNATIONAL: WHO weighs in on plant-based nutrition issues
• INTERNATIONAL: Aliens and what we learned about them in 2021?
• GERMANY: Natalie Grams latest fellow of CSI
• SCOTLAND: Scottish Independence / SNP conspiracy theories. Most notably, the ongoing conspiracy theories about the death of Willie Macrae

A young dealer called Jack Finney illustrates just why you should never buy diet pills on the dark web and gets a Really Wrong Award.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; Pontus Pokes The Pope; News; Really Wrong; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:54 GREETINGS

• Darwin’s ‘heir’ died
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59803766
• James Webb
  • ESA: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59782057
• Brian’s night in Scotland’s Most Haunted Hotel
  • Drovers Inn: https://www.droversinn.co.uk/about-us/ghosts/

0:12:57 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 31st December 335 – death of Saint Sylvester
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sylvester_I
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay

0:18:30 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Keep the babies comin’!
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2021/12/pope-urges-couples-facing-stormy-seas-of-covid-to-keep-marriages-afloat
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2021/12/pope-decries-italys-demographic-winter-of-falling-birth-rates-family-size
  • NCR Online: https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/vatican-census-shows-catholicism-growing-everywhere-europe
  • Fides: http://www.fides.org/en/news/71000-VATICAN_CATHOLIC_CHURCH_STATISTICS_2021

0:23:33 NEWS

• GERMANY: Covid demonstration strolls
  • Merkur.de: https://www.merkur.de/bayern/experte-corona-bayern-demos-querdenker-spaziergaenge-verschwoerung-91198356.html
• INTERNATIONAL: WHO weighs in on plant-based nutrition issues
  • WHO: https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/Life-stages/pages/news/news/2021/12/new-who-factsheet-how-can-we-tell-if-plant-based-products-are-healthy
• INTERNATIONAL: Aliens and what we learned about them in 2021?
  • Live Science: https://www.livescience.com/alien-discoveries-2021
• GERMANY: Natalie Grams latest fellow of CSI
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2021/12/23/was-wirklich-wirkt-demnaechst-in-erweiterter-neuauflage/
• SCOTLAND: Scottish Independence / SNP conspiracy theories. Most notably, the ongoing conspiracy theories about the death of Willie Macrae
  • Herald Scotland: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14400576.revealed-key-evidence-missing-mysterious-death-snp-activist-willie-mcrae/

0:55:30 REALLY WRONG

• REALLY WRONG: Dealer Jack Finney sold toxic industrial chemical as diet pills
  • dzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2021/12/this-wonder-slimming-aid-can-kill-you/
  • MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/dealer-who-sold-toxic-industrial-chemical-as-diet-pills-online-jailed/ar-AAS3O4w
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-Dinitrophenol

0:59:12 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“People think that science is like the fire brigade. If there’s a raging fire, people are happy the firefighters exist. But there are also people that say ‘If nothing is on fire, what do we need the fire brigade for?‘”
/ Ranga Yogeshwar (18 May 1959 – ), Luxembourgish physicist and science journalist. /

1:02:12 OUTRO

1:03:27 OUT-TAKES