TheESP – Ep. #407 – Big Exorcism

First we mention that the prestigious Heinz Oberhummer Award has just been given to Die Sendung mit der Maus which we recently called out for being Really Wrong. Annika puts that into perspective for us. It is time to plan the trip to next year’s European Skeptics Congress, this time in Lyon France, 30 May to 2 June. We then ask if Pope Frankie is planning his ‘Endgame’; some things point in that direction. After that we take a look at the news:

• GERMANY: Exorcism in Germany
• SWEDEN: Does Sweden have the second worst problem with gun violence in Europe?
• INTERNATIONAL / UK: What Doctor Who gets wrong about climate change
• INTERNATIONAL: PISA 2022 results just out

Russia’s Supreme Court is rewarded with this week’s Really Wrong Award for classifying the ‘International LGBT movement’ and an extremist ‘organisation’. The Word of the Week is ‘Vrăjitoare’. Tune in to find out what it means!

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; Pontus Pokes the Pope; News; Really Wrong; Word of the Week; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

• Heinz Oberhümmer Award
  • WDR: https://www1.wdr.de/unternehmen/der-wdr/unternehmen/oberhummer-preis-fuer-die-maus-100.html
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/06/01/heinz-oberhummer-award-2023-geht-an-die-sendung-mit-der-maus/
• European Skeptics Congress 2024
  • ECSO: https://www.ecso.org/esc2024/

0:06:45 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Frankie is ill and seems to be preparing his ‘Endgame’
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/29/pope-francis-cancels-cop28-meeting-visit-climate-crisis-why-flu-illness
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/is-the-popes-crackdown-on-opponents-the-beginning-of-the-endgame

0:12:37 NEWS

• GERMANY: Exorcism in Germany
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/11/27/exorzismus-in-deutschland-2/
• SWEDEN: Does Sweden have the second worst problem with gun violence in Europe?
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/30/how-gang-violence-took-hold-of-sweden-in-five-charts
• INTERNATIONAL / UK: What Doctor Who gets wrong about climate change
  • the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/doctor-who-what-the-show-gets-wrong-about-climate-change-and-energy-justice-new-research-218389
• INTERNATIONAL: PISA 2022 results just out
  • OECD: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/OECD_2022_PISA_Results_Comparing%20countries%E2%80%99%20and%20economies%E2%80%99%20performance%20in%20mathematics.pdf

0:35:53 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Russia’s Supreme Court has declared ‘the international LGBT public movement’ an extremist organisation – there is no such organisation
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67565509

0:41:36 WORD OF THE WEEK

• ROMANIAN:
  Vrăjitoare, ‘witch’
  Vrăjitoarea aruncă o vrajă, ‘The witch casts her spell’

0:47:08 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“I spend quite a lot of time thinking about how curated our information is. What we watch, what we read, what we buy, often who we talk to, is all shaped and influenced by some kind of a mathematical algorithm.”
/ Hannah Fry (21 February 1984 – ), British mathematician, author, and radio and television presenter. /

0:49:56 OUTRO

0:51:11 OUT-TAKES