<p>We’re back home after&nbsp;<strong>QED</strong>&nbsp;and boy was it great! Last one, we know, but next year will see&nbsp;<strong>the European Skeptics Congress in Liverpool</strong>&nbsp;and it will largely be following the template of QED.&nbsp;<strong>Save the dates, 16-18 October 2026!</strong></p><p>We note the lessons learned from&nbsp;<strong>hurricane Melissa</strong>&nbsp;and in&nbsp;<strong>TWISH</strong>&nbsp;we hear about two milestones of European history,&nbsp;<strong>the ECDC</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>the European Convention om Human Rights</strong>. Then, we catch up on the news:</p><ul><li><strong>UK</strong>: The Ockham awards for 2025</li><li><strong>AUSTRIA</strong>: The Golden Board for 2025</li><li><strong>SWEDEN</strong>: Populistic repatriation support meets local pushback</li><li><strong>ITALY</strong>: Senate hosts presentation of bogus device</li><li><strong>GERMANY</strong>: Student at the Free University of Berlin develops useful tool for spotting fake references</li><li><strong>HUNGARY</strong>: Over a hundred political ads financed by Orbán’s Digital Citizen Circles slip through Facebooks filters</li></ul><p>In Finland the nonsense of&nbsp;<strong>DISC personality tests</strong>&nbsp;are inexplicably popular and&nbsp;<strong>the company MLP</strong>&nbsp;gets the&nbsp;<strong>Really Wrong Award</strong>&nbsp;for promoting it, while philosopher of science&nbsp;<strong>Inkeri Koskinen</strong>&nbsp;gets the&nbsp;<strong>Really Right Award</strong>&nbsp;for speaking up about it.</p><p><strong>Enjoy!</strong></p><p><a href="https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-504.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-504.html</a></p><p><strong>Segments</strong>:</p><p>0:00:27 Intro</p><p>0:00:51 Greetings</p><p>0:15:12 TWISH</p><p>0:24:02 News</p><p>0:56:51 Really Wrong / Really Right</p><p>1:01:48 Quote</p><p>1:03:20 Outro</p><p>1:04:43 Outtakes</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>