TheESP – Ep. #454 Make Earth Flat Again

As everyone else these days we are moving from X to Bluesky, any help in driving traffic our way is much appreciated. The Humanists UK has published a new exciting book called What I Believe, named after podcast by the same name. You should check it out! In TWISH we hear about how the (then) Prince of Wales got his favorite charity for SCAM (So-Called Alternative Medicine) struck from the UK Charity Commission. Then, we head for the news:

• INTERNATIONAL: 2024 will be the first year above 1.5°C
• INTERNATIONAL: Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
• INTERNATIONAL: Retraction Watch is hiring!
• SPAIN: Video does not show ‘HAARP ship’ floating near Spain before floods
• INTERNATIONAL: WHO teams up with TikTok to combat misinformation on social media

The Really Wrong Award goes to the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam for making a chiropractor professor.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:50 GREETINGS

• New book published by Humanists UK: What I Believe
  • Humanists UK: https://humanists.uk/2024/11/07/new-book-what-i-believe-out-now/
• Users flee X after the US election
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/12/us-election-bluesky-users-flee-x-twitter-trump-musk
  • Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/theesp.bsky.social

0:11:56 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 23 November 2011: The Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health struck from the registry of the Charity Commission
  • Third Sector: https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/prince-charless-complementary-medicine-charity-dissolved/finance/article/1131831

0:16:37 NEWS

• INTERNATIONAL: 2024 will be the first year above 1.5°C
  • Skeptical Science: https://skepticalscience.com/2024-above-15C.html
• INTERNATIONAL: Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-to-blame-for-dozens-of-impossible-heatwaves-studies-reveal
• INTERNATIONAL: Retraction Watch is hiring!
  • Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com/2024/11/12/retraction-watch-is-hiring-two-journalism-jobs-available/
• SPAIN: Video does not show ‘HAARP ship’ floating near Spain before floods
  • Full Fact: https://fullfact.org/online/haarp-ship-spain-floods/
• INTERNATIONAL: WHO teams up with TikTok to combat misinformation on social media
  • WHO: https://www.who.int/news/item/26-09-2024-who-and-tiktok-to-collaborate-on-more-science-based-information-on-health-and-well-being

0:36:14 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Chiropractor appointed professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2024/11/the-free-university-amsterdam-appoints-a-chiropractor-as-professor/

0:40:55 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.”
/ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831), German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy. /

0:42:32 OUTRO

0:43:47 OUT-TAKES