TheESP – Ep. #432 – Turning people into horses

Annika and András talk a bit about the EP elections again, mostly reacting to listener feedback. We also mention the Belgian skeptical organisation SKEPP’s Skeptical Awards and in TWISH we commemorate evolutionary biologist, humanist, eugenicist and internationalist extraordinaire Sir Julian Huxley. Then in the news:

• SCOTLAND: Parliament votes to implement abortion safe access zones
• INTERNATIONAL: How to help health care professionals on the forefront of vaccinations?

The Welsh educational institution Llanidoes High School gets this week’s Really Wrong award for teaching creationism as science.

We also bring you a Word of the Week, which is the Hungarian expression “Lóvá tesz”.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Word of the Week; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes

0:00:25 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

• European Parliamentary election results
  • Al Jazeera: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/12/european-parliament-at-crossroads-as-right-wing-parties-triumph-in-eu-vote
  • Carbon intensity of European Countries (Electricity maps): https://app.electricitymaps.com/map

• Skeptical Awards handed out by SKEPP
  • https://skepp.be/nl/hilde-van-waelvelde
  • https://skepp.be/nl/servaas-bing%C3%A9

0:09:12 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 22 June 1887: Evolutionary biologist and former president of BHA, Sir Julian Huxley was born
  • Journal of Modern European History: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4366572/
  • Humanists UK: https://humanists.uk/humanism/the-humanist-tradition/20th-century-humanism/sir-julian-huxley/

0:16:43 NEWS

• SCOTLAND: Parliament votes to implement abortion safe access zones
  • Humanists UK: https://humanists.uk/2024/06/13/success-scottish-parliament-votes-to-implement-abortion-safe-access-zones/
• INTERNATIONAL: How to help health care professionals on the forefront of vaccinations?
• • Vaccines Today: https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/helping-health-professionals-to-become-vaccine-champions/

0:23:16 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: The Welsh educational institution Llanidoes High School for teaching creationism as science.
  • Humanists UK: https://humanists.uk/2024/06/18/new-evidence-of-creationism-being-taught-in-welsh-schools-humanists-call-for-ban/

0:27:04 WORD OF THE WEEK

• “Lóvá Tesz” – dupes, fools (somebody)
• https://szolasok.hu/szolasok/lova-tesz/

0:33:14 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.”
/ Julian Huxley (1887 – 1975, British biologist, philosopher and writer) in Religion and Science: Old Wine in New Bottles” in the Traveller’s Library (1933) /

0:35:18 OUTRO

0:36:33 OUT-TAKES