Another newsletter, another election. This time the US appears to have, narrowly, come to its senses and chosen to vote out their current science-denying leader - and my guess is that most skeptics are breathing a sigh of relief. Those of us at Wellington Skeptics in the Pub on Friday certainly did a thorough job of dissecting the election, along with its many rules, regulations, polls, predictions and polemics.
I for one am feeling a modicum of schadenfreude having learned today that Rudy Giuliani's team appear to have messed up when booking a venue for a press release to talk about Trump's plans to mount a legal challenge to Biden's win on Saturday. Instead of booking the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, someone instead booked the car park at the back of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping company. Good on them for sticking with it, though, as it made my day to see Giuliani speaking in front of a garage door in the middle of an industrial estate.
Anyway, without any further ado here's some of what's been happening of skeptical interest in the world in the last week.
Mark Honeychurch.