András is back in good form and we start with a report from the Swedish Skeptics at the Gothenburg Book Fair – real life astronauts where involved! A little listener feed back and then we go to TWISH to hear about German R&B Singer and conspiracy theorist Xavier Naidoo. Then it’s time for the news:
- SWEDEN: Secret Service confirms State of Iran behind disinformation text messages re Quran burnings
- INTERNATIONAL: Social media moguls are a concern to most experts regarding misinformation
- BELGIUM: And the Pope is still a misogynist
- PORTUGAL: Public trust drives vaccine uptake regardless of age
To round up we hand a Really Wrong Award to well-known homeopath Michael Frass, who keeps implying that homeopathy can treat cancer – but his arguments are based on falsified research…
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:50 GREETINGS
- VoF flying high at Gothenburg International Book Fair
- Listener feedback: update on Fleur Agema
0:09:45 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 2 October 1971: German R&B Singer and conspiracy theorist Xavier Naidoo was born
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Naidoo
0:16:00 NEWS
- SWEDEN: Secret Service confirms State of Iran behind disinformation text messages re Quran burnings
- INTERNATIONAL: Social media moguls are a concern to most experts regarding misinformation
- BELGIUM: And the Pope is still a misogynist
- PORTUGAL: Public trust drives vaccine uptake regardless of age
0:45:10 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: To Michael Frass – his homeopathy paper on cancer is still very misleading after “corrections”
- Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com/2024/09/26/homeopathy-for-cancer-paper-extensively-corrected-after-watchdog-agency-requested-retraction/
- GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2024/09/27/und-wieder-die-homoeopathische-lungenkrebsstudie-ein-paar-korrekturen-aendern-nichts-an-der-harten-kritik-daran/
0:50:34 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact.”
/ Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784), French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. /
0:51:52 OUTRO
0:53:07 OUT-TAKES