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As Eggman sits in for András, we look forward to SkeptiCamp at QED and Mike Hall’s Skeptics in the Pub Online talk and are happy to note that not only do we follow the ECDC, but they follow us back. In TWISH we hear about one of the forgotten(?) super villains of the Theosophy movement, Alice Bailey, and then we take a look at this week’s news:

• SWEDEN: Crystals sold to help fertility
• ISRAEL: Uri Geller says he used his psychic powers to break the navigation tools on Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla ship, the Madleen, and warned that he would stop her if she comes to harm Israel.
• INTERNATIONAL: Teenage girls’ TikTok skincare regimes offer little to no benefit, research shows
• INTERNATIONAL: Are CO2 measurements reliable?
• UK: Is positive thinking a factor for heart patients?
• INTERNATIONAL: ‘After seeing the chiropractor, I was seeing things and blacking out’

A Swedish politician flat-out denies anthropogenic climate change and is handed this week’s Really Wrong Award.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:58 GREETINGS

• Skepticamp applications
  • Skeptics in the Pub – Online: https://sitp.online/skepticamp
• Listener feedback – the ECDC
  • ECDC: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en
• Mike Hall speaking for SITPO
  • Facebook (event): https://www.facebook.com/events/1885973942296661

0:07:42 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 16 June 1880: Alice Bailey .. born on 16th June 1880
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bailey

0:13:19 NEWS

• SWEDEN: Crystals sold to help fertility
  • SVT: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/sodertalje/kristaller-pastas-oka-chanser-att-bli-gravid-magiskt-tankande
  • SVT: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/sodertalje/kristallforsaljningens-baksida-pengarna-hamnar-hos-talibanerna-i-afghanistan
• ISRAEL: Uri Geller says he used his psychic powers to break the navigation tools on Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla ship, the Madleen, and warned that he would stop her if she comes to harm Israel.
  • Jerusalem Post: https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-856996
• INTERNATIONAL: Teenage girls’ TikTok skincare regimes offer little to no benefit, research shows
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/09/teenage-girls-tiktok-skincare-regimes-offer-little-to-no-benefit-research-shows
• INTERNATIONAL: Are CO2 measurements reliable?
  • Skeptical Science: https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-co2data.html
• UK: Is positive thinking a factor for heart patients?
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgle5w54j6po
  • Liverpool University: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/tipple/researcher/news/articles/research-shows-hope-still-matters-when-it-comes-to-heart-health/
• INTERNATIONAL: ‘After seeing the chiropractor, I was seeing things and blacking out’
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2025/06/after-seeing-the-chiropractor-i-was-seeing-things-and-blacking-out/

0:45:16 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: SWEDEN: SD top politician says climate change is not man made
  • Omni: https://tt.omni.se/sd-topp-manniskan-inte-bakom-uppvarmningen/a/lwRqMo
  • Wikipedia: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rgen_Fogelklou

0:47:42 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Natura non facit saltus. (Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.)”
/ Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the ‘father of modern taxonomy’. /

0:52:07 OUTRO

0:53:30 OUT-TAKES