This week we welcome Annika back and first chat a bit about comets and astronomy and about some of the excellent online skeptical events there now is to follow, like the UK Skeptics in the Pub Online, the new Cologne events and Susan Gerbic’s About Time project.
In this week in history we hear about Carl Jung, who was born on 26 July in 1875. Just like Freud he got a lot of things terribly wrong, but his ideas still inspired a lot better psychology later on and they continue to be part of the present-day culture. Then we poke the pope and find that even though Francis appears to want to fight the sex abuse scandals, last week’s new guidelines confirm that the Church continues to get most of their priorities completely backwards.
Lots of corona in the news this week:
- The COVID19 infodemic re Western Europe
- Corona conspiracy myths in Germany
- Andrew Wakefield and other anti-vaxxers mobilising against a future corona vaccine and unfortunately it is working
- Hungarian guy gets convicted for coronavirus misinformation
- Austria’s relaxed rules on masks has bad effect on infection rates
- Google bans ads for conspiracy theories
- the PSA investigates the UK Society of Homeopaths for non-compliance
- Russia wages war on homeopathy
- Good Thinking Society help the BBC in producing excellent documentary about fake cancers ‘cures’
- BMJ presents study on medical science communication in the age of disinformation
- Is the Russian Dyatlov mystery finally solved?
The prize for being Really Right (perhaps controversially) goes to a Swedish doctor who turned himself in for assisted death.
Enjoy!
Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week; Pontus Pokes the Pope; News; Really Right; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes
Events Calendar: http://theesp.eu/events_in_europe