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TheESP – Ep. #219 – Wining about COVID-19 (cheers!)

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This week Deborah Hyde joins us to bring you news and interesting topics to cover with us. We start by mentioning how VoF (Sweden), the GWUP (Germany), ComCept (Portugal) and ARP-SAPC (Spain) make efforts to provide their readers with accurate and reliable information in the times of COVID-19.
Then Deborah gives us a brief overview of the history of quarantines, before we turn into discussing Cardinal Pell’s Right-Wing conspiracy coockoo and the Pope being useless.
A separate segment of COVID-19 update is followed by the news that include a UK holistic doctor recommending homeopathy against the novel coronavirus, a somewhat questionable study that claims to show the prevalence of TCM in different countries in the fight against the pandemic, how the Spanish Science Network Programme 2020 goes completely online, Danish researchers finding no benefit from treating asthma patients with homeopathy and reflexology alongside conventional treatments, how Facebook aims to warn users about coronavirus hoaxes, Swedish doctors and scientists selling stuff after preliminary results and naming it ‘Anoroc’, John Ioannidis comparing 100 best selling books on nutritional health with no surprising results, Natalie Grams going back to practiting medicine and doing less of educational work in the future, the Spanish prize offered for theatrical works criticising pseudotherapies and CICAP Live being launched on YouTube bringing Italian audiences a whole lot of science and critical thinking.
Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier gets this week’s Really Wrong prize for claiming that SARS-CoV-2 was manufactured from HIV and thus feeding conspiracy theories.

Enjoy!

Segments:
Intro; Greetings; A Brief History of Quarantines; Pontus Pokes the Pope; COVID-19 Update; News; Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes

Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe

0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

  • Pontus’ online talk in Swedish:

  • Downloadable German translation of ‘The Conspiracy Handbook‘ by Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook
  • ComCept’s compilation of online material on Covid-19 for Portugese speakers
  • ComCept’s online talk wih Diana Barbosa and João Monteiro:

  • A compilation of accurate and reliable info on Covid-19 for Spanish readers

0:17:23 A Brief History of Quarantines – by Deborah Hyde

0:34:58 PONTUS POKES THE POPE
Pell Goes Right-Wing Conspiracy Coocoo

0:43:09 COVID-19 Update

0:56:19 NEWS

  1. UK: Holistic doctor recommends homeopathy against COVID-19
  2. INTERNATIONAL: Questionable study shows prevalence of TCM in different countries in the times of COVID-19
  3. SPAIN: Spanish Science Network Programme 2020 goes online
  4. DENMARK: Danish researchers prove (yet again) that homeopathy and reflexology are useless. This time for asthma
  5. HUNGARY: Chaos around response to Covid-19 and online petition for more comprehensive testing
  6. INTERNATIONAL: Facebook warns users about coronavirus hoaxes
  7. SWEDEN: Doctors and Scientists found to sell ‘Anoroc’ over the internet
  8. INTERNATIONAL: John Ioannidis publishes a comparative study of bestselling nutritional health books – with no surprising results
  9. GERMANY: Natalie Grams goes back to practicing medicine
  10. SPAIN: Prize offered for theatrical works dealing with pseudotherapies
  11. ITALY: CICAP launches ‘CICAP Live’, a series of live online events where TV meets Skeptics in the Pub

1:26:27 REALLY WRONG
The Nobel Disease strikes again: Luc Montagnier claims SARS-cov-2 is manufactured from HIV

1:33:06 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Experiment is the interpreter of nature. Experiments never deceive. It is our judgment which sometimes deceives itself because it expects results which experiment refuses. We must consult experiment, varying the circumstances, until we have deduced general rules, for experiment alone can furnish reliable rules.”
/Leonardo da Vinci, Italian sculptor, painter and polymath/

1:35:02 OUTRO

1:36:17 OUT-TAKES

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