With the return of a super-El Niño it may be a hot year and in TWISH we hear about James Lind‘s famous scurvy experiment from 1747. Then we have the news:
- INTERNATIONAL: Antidepressants in pregnancy do not raise children’s risk of autism or ADHD
- BELGIUM / DENMARK: Attempted control and recommendations regarding meat consumption spark disinformation campaigns
- INTERNATIONAL: Hantavirus myths and facts
- UK: Halley’s comet named after the wrong person?
Swedish influencer Katrin Zytomierska claims her olive oil prevents cancer and for that she receives this week’s award for being Really Wrong.
Enjoy!
Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Quote; Outro; Outtakes
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:51 GREETINGS
- El Nino seems to be coming back
0:07:00 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY
- 20 May 1747: Start of James Lind’s scurvy experiment
- Cambridge: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/439D7C9FDC2ABD2A55874ABF1CB58748/S0025727300020469a.pdf/james-lind-and-the-cure-of-scurvy-an-experimental-approach.pdf
- Project Story Telling: https://www.science-story-telling.eu/fileadmin/content/projekte/storytelling/biografien/biografien-eng/lind-biografie-gb.pdf
0:19:26 NEWS
- INTERNATIONAL: Antidepressants in pregnancy do not raise children’s risk of autism or ADHD
- BELGIUM / DENMARK: Attempted control and recommendations regarding meat consumption spark disinformation campaigns
- INTERNATIONAL: Hantavirus myths and facts
- UK: Halley’s comet named after the wrong person?
0:40:15 REALLY WRONG
- Really Wrong: Swedish influencer Katrin Zytomierska claimed her olive oil can reduce breast cancer by 60%
0:43:31 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
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If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.”
/ Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known as Carl von Linné. Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy”. /
0:48:09 OUTRO
0:49:31 OUT-TAKES