TheESP – Ep. #285 – Grow Up and Be a Skeptic!

In this episode we note that skeptics in Germany has raised a lot of money to support victims of the floods. Formidable Dutch skeptic Frits van Dam passed away on 26 July and we want to honor his memory. Listener Marcel-Jan has written a great blog post about his experience with growing up in a woo-family and eventually finding skepticism, and then we get a Polish lesson from listener Max. In This Week we hear about Carl Jung, and then we dig into the news:- Emerging fake news regarding catastrophic floods: - Querdenker fake ”official” car in flood area - Greta Thunberg sticker on flooded car- Climate change scientists call for better computers to work on forecasts- Galileo project to look for UFOs- Vaccine passport rules approved in France despite protests- Chiropractor found professionally liable for harming patient with bogus therapy- Follow-up: Doctor who sold fake covid test results gets prison sentence- New info on the Spanish skeptical congressWe have a double whammy and a bonus for the Really Wrong segment: First for rasist health care in Sweden and then Eric Clapton and Nena demonstrate why artists should never voice their view on covid restrictions.Enjoy!The Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.