TheESP – Ep. #378 – Heilpraktiker rubbish

…FYI, that’s not James Randi talking
This week we reflect a bit on the Eurovision Song Contest and how people misunderstand the news about a baby “with three parents”. In TWISH we wish Ben Goldacre a happy birthday and then Pontus brings us up to date with Pope Frankie. And then, of course, the news:

• GERMANY: The Golden Board Award is back!
• IRELAND: AI is here to stay: Fake article about fake tanning in the Irish Times
• UK: Retractions should not take longer than two months, says UK Parliament committee
• GERMANY: The schools that train ‘Heilpraktiker’ in Germany: no standards and no control
• UK: Lost in the mall: Are the results of the classic false memory study not valid?

“Voices from the Void” maybe hearing things, but the voices in their head do not include James Randi. Hear this instead: you are Really Wrong!

Enjoy!

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

0:00:50 GREETINGS

• About the Eurovision Song Contest
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/may/14/eurovision-2023-winner-liverpool-uk-ukraine
• Baby born from three people’s DNA in UK first
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65538866

0:10:16 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 20 May 1974: Birth of Ben Goldacre, prominent science communicator
  • University of Oxford: https://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/ben-goldacre

0:16:31 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Frankie gives women voting rights, also meets with Zelensky
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/news-analysis/2023/05/a-note-of-caution-about-deck-stacking-charges-against-pope-francis
  • Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/13/zelensky-pope-francis-italy/

0:21:05 NEWS

• GERMANY: The Golden Board Award is back!
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/05/10/das-goldene-brett-ist-zurueck/
• IRELAND: AI is here to stay: Fake article about fake tanning in the Irish Times
  • RTE: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0513/1383413-irish-times/
• UK: Retractions should not take longer than two months, says UK Parliament committee
  • Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com/2023/05/09/retractions-should-not-take-longer-than-two-months-says-uk-parliament-committee/
• GERMANY: The schools that train ‘Heilpraktiker’ in Germany: no standards and no control
  • Tahes Schau: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/report-mainz/heilpraktiker-schule-100.html
• UK: Lost in the mall: Are the results of the classic false memory study not valid?
  • Skeptic UK: https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/05/replicating-a-classic-false-memory-study-lost-in-the-mall-again/

0:37:17 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Voices from the Void pretends to talk to James Randi beyond the grave
  • Youtube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5SQpXdBkMl0

0:41:27 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Even skeptics may fall for claims that they wish to be true if they do not remind themselves that they too have their political, ideological, and religious or nonreligious biases that could cloud their objectivity.”
/ Amardeo Sarma (1955 – ), German engineer and skeptic, very active in GWUP /

0:44:52 OUTRO

0:46:07 OUT-TAKES