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TheESP – Ep. #392 – Flying Bat-people on the Moon

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…sleep restriction for insomnia?
 
A lot of great talks are coming up for Skepticamp at QED in September – with András, Pontus and Claire among the speakers! In TWISH we hear about an almost 200 year old fake news about the moon and then we take a look at the news:

  • UK: Asparagus fails to predict the future
  • SCOTLAND: Loch Ness might be ‘home to spirit entity’ that can be disturbed by search
  • UK: Meghan Markle wears ‘miracle antistress patch’
  • INTERNATIONAL: WHO promotes alternative medicine (again!)
  • INTERNATIONAL: Where skeptics go wrong

Medical journal the Lancet gets this week Award for being Really Wrong a new article about insomnia. Word of the Week is the Danish word vrøvl.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Word Of The Week; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

0:04:47 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:11:38 NEWS

0:37:09 REALLY WRONG

0:40:56 WORD OF THE WEEK

0:43:43 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    Did Newton, dreaming in his orchard there
    Beside the dreaming Witham, see the moon
    Burn like a huge gold apple in the boughs
    And wonder why should moons not fall like fruit?

    Alfred Noyes (16 September 1880 – 25 June 1958), English poet, short-story writer and playwright. /

0:45:42 OUTRO

0:46:57 OUT-TAKES