We’re back home after&nbsp;QED&nbsp;and boy was it great! Last one, we know, but next year will see&nbsp;the European Skeptics Congress in Liverpool&nbsp;and it will largely be following the template of QED.&nbsp;Save the dates, 16-18 October 2026!We note the lessons learned from&nbsp;hurricane Melissa&nbsp;and in&nbsp;TWISH&nbsp;we hear about two milestones of European history,&nbsp;the ECDC&nbsp;and&nbsp;the European Convention om Human Rights. Then, we catch up on the news:<ul><li>UK: The Ockham awards for 2025</li><li>AUSTRIA: The Golden Board for 2025</li><li>SWEDEN: Populistic repatriation support meets local pushback</li><li>ITALY: Senate hosts presentation of bogus device</li><li>GERMANY: Student at the Free University of Berlin develops useful tool for spotting fake references</li><li>HUNGARY: Over a hundred political ads financed by Orbán’s Digital Citizen Circles slip through Facebooks filters</li></ul>In Finland the nonsense of&nbsp;DISC personality tests&nbsp;are inexplicably popular and&nbsp;the company MLP&nbsp;gets the&nbsp;Really Wrong Award&nbsp;for promoting it, while philosopher of science&nbsp;Inkeri Koskinen&nbsp;gets the&nbsp;Really Right Award&nbsp;for speaking up about it.Enjoy!<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>Segments:0:00:27 Intro0:00:51 Greetings0:15:12 TWISH0:24:02 News0:56:51 Really Wrong / Really Right1:01:48 Quote1:03:20 Outro1:04:43 Outtakes<hr> 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.

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