Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week in Skepticism; News; Pontus Pokes the Pope: Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Out-takes
Show Notes:
00:00:55 Greetings
This week we bring you stuff to think about like Eugenics, plus news and updates on the Hungarian government’s attack on the freedom of science, GSoW reaching a new level of activism, legislative changes to occur in Germany regarding Heilpraktiker, Humanist weddings getting a green light in Ireland, Facebook shutting down Hungarian fake news sites, homeopaths offering their “solutions” to the problem of antibiotic resistance, nominations open for John Maddox Prize at Sense about Science, CICAPfest tickets now available and how wrong the Daily Mail is for reporting questionable claims of a non existant disease.
Pontus pokes the pope for being silly about his way of solving the crisis in the Middle East
00:06:28 This Week in Skepticism
The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring in Nazi Germany was made into act on July 14 of 1933, but made active in January 1934
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-michael-johnson/intelligent-design-creati_b_636200.html
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-klinghoffer/the-dark-side-of-darwinis_b_630627.html
00:17:16 Skeptical News
- Hungary: Update on the situation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05526-x
https://index.hu/tudomany/2018/07/03/palkovics_nkfih_palyazat/
https://index.hu/tudomany/2018/07/04/mit_akar_az_mta/
- Europe: Measles update:
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/serbia-measles-update-33-percent-patients-hospitalized-86969/amp/
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/measles-warning–public-health-1725024
- International: Update on GSoW by Susan Gerbic:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20004508.2018.1475200 - Hungary: Mother loses child to vaccine induced BCG, goes on defending vaccinations:
https://index.hu/tudomany/2018/06/21/patkos_adam_bcg_tbc_vedooltas_oltasellenesseg/ - Germany: The German ‘HEILPRAKTIKER’ is going to be reformed
https://edzardernst.com/2018/06/finally-the-german-heilpraktiker-is-going-to-be-reformed/
- Northern Ireland: Court of Appeal in Belfast rules humanist marriage must be legally recognised
- Hungary: Facebook shuts down Hungarian network of six fake news sites
https://index.hu/tech/2018/06/27/hirhedt_magyar_kamuhiroldal-halozatot_lott_le_a_facebook/
http://www.debrecensun.hu/national/2018/06/28/hungarian-fake-news-pages-deleted-by-facebook/
- Germany: Homeopaths offering a solution to the antibiotic resistance crisis https://edzardernst.com/2018/06/homeopathy-hubris-in-allopathic-doses/
- International: John Maddox Prize 2018 now open for nominations http://senseaboutscience.org/activities/maddox-nominations/
- Italy: CICAPfest 2018 registrations now open
https://www.cicap.org/n/articolo.php?id=278736
00:49:30 Pontus Pokes the Pope
- The Pope solves the Middle East crisis!:
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2018-07/pope-francis-bari-peace-ecumenism-press-conference-koch.html
00:54:05 Really Wrong
- Really Wrong: The Daily Mail on Chronic Lyme disease
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5912689/The-picture-dashed-champion-swimmers-Olympic-dreams.html
01:00:00 Quote
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty. Take your time to decide don’t rush. ”
/Publius Cornelius Tacitus, senator and a historian of the Roman Empire/
01:02:24 Outro
01:03:37 Out-takes