Ayurveda

Sorry for the delay guys, but we’re back! We have a host of tips for our listeners to get engaged in in the new year. In this week’s TWISH we hear about the Basel Massacre in 1349, gruesome stuff. Then we look at the news:

• ROMANIA: Measles declared an epidemic after infant death
• INTERNATIONAL: Large language models validate misinformation
• UK: King Charles’ “Ayurvedic Centre of Excellence” turns out to be an embarrassing failure
• GERMANY: Nikil Mukerji appointed CSI Fellow
• GERMANY: Zeit Online reveals there’s nothing behind newspaper horoscopes

The Really Wrong aware goes to so-called “Energy Healer” Jean-Maurice Latsague, not just an alt-med scammer but also a sex abuser.

Happy new year!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

• New year, new and old but important projects that need YOU:
• Cranky Uncle game translations
  • Skeptical Science: https://skepticalscience.com/cranky-uncle-game-multilingual.html
• GSoW Guerilla Skeptics on Wikipedia
  • About Time Project: https://www.abouttimeproject.org/gsow
• Brian Dunning looking for translators for subtitles to The UFO Movie They Don’t Want You to See
  • Youtube: https://youtu.be/t72uvS7EJT4?si=pN2QwXMk5bqXBzaq

 

• The end of an era: ASKE and Skeptical Intelligencer – Many thanks for your hard work, Mike!
  • ASKE: https://www.aske-skeptics.org.uk/index.html
• Program published for ESC 2024, all speakers confirmed
  • ECSO: https://www.ecso.org/esc2024/esc-2024-program/

0:15:35 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 9 January 1349: The Basel Massacre
  • Jerusalem Post: https://www.jpost.com/features/in-thespotlight/this-week-in-history-the-jews-of-basel-are-burnt

0:23:33 NEWS

• ROMANIA: Measles declared an epidemic after infant death
  • Vaccines Today: https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/romania-declares-measles-epidemic-as-infant-dies-in-hospital/
• INTERNATIONAL: Large language models validate misinformation
  • Scinece Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231220011945.htm
• UK: King Charles’ “Ayurvedic Centre of Excellence” turns out to be an embarrassing failure
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2023/12/king-charless-ayurvedic-centre-of-excellence-turns-out-to-be-an-embarrassing-failure/
• GERMANY: Nikil Mukerji appointed CSI Fellow
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/12/23/vorsitzender-des-gwup-wissenschaftsrats-zum-fellow-des-amerikanischen-csi-ernannt/
• GERMANY: Zeit Online reveals there’s nothing behind newspaper horoscopes
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/12/30/goennen-sie-sich-ein-bisschen-ruhe-45-000-horoskope-analysiert-nichts-dahinter/

0:46:35 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Jean-Maurice Latsague, Energy healer and sex offender
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2023/12/an-energy-healer-and-prolific-rapist/

0:49:30 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“The beginning is always today.”
/ Mary Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851), English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel ‘Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus’. /

0:51:03 OUTRO

0:52:18 OUT-TAKES