Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week in Skepticism; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Out-takes
Show Notes:
00:00:27 Greetings
- Upcoming book by Steve Novella and the SGU rogues: (available for pre-order) Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
- Portugese book ‘Science and its Enemies‘
- Massimo Polidoro asking for topics to talk about on his YouTube channel
- Lawrence Krauss’ sexual misconduct scandal
00:16:56 This Week in Skepticism
00:21:01 Skeptical News
- UK: Deborah Hyde: Exorcists are back – and people are getting hurt
- GERMANY: Information Network Homeopathy goes international
- ITALY: Mandatory measles vaccination from March
- CZECH REPUBLIC: ProVaxChallenge
- INTERNATIONAL/NETHERLANDS: Get Bad News application
00:40:57 Really Wrong
00:44:04 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/
00:45:17 Outro
00:46:32 Out-takes