Russia takes post-truth to new levels
Mostly bad news this week, but on the bright side we have The Skeptic’s Guide soon to come out with their new book The Skeptic’s Guide to the Future (pre-order it now!) and the upcoming European Skeptics Congress in Vienna. See you there! This week we celebrate Sir David Attenborough‘s 96th birthday and we take a look at Pope Francis and his dealings with the other “Pope”, Patriarch Kirill, also known as Putin’s altar boy. Then we go through some news:

RUSSIA: Russian long-term recruitment programme disguised as education
INTERNATIONAL: Measles is the new-old threat
UKRAINE: The fake news factory on this side of the fence…
SPAIN: Families in despair over IM Academy: ‘The crypto-sect has kidnapped our children’
INTERNATIONAL: Hepatitis cases cause for concern – and the disinformation factory keeps rolling
SWEDEN: Macchiarini trial started this week – Procecution says surgery was experimental, cruel, and against all science and evidence
UK: GCSE in Natural History announced and brings hope for environmentalism
Pontus gets really angry with Putin’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov this week and hands him a hard Really Wrong Award. There’s also a “Bonus Bad Award” to the Russian propaganda machine that implies that Swedes are Nazis.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; Pontus Pokes The Pope; News; Really Wrong; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;