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TheESP – Ep. #347 – The beginning of the end for German homeopathy?

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– Lauterbach takes on pseudoscience

Brian Eggo steps in to save the day as he covers for both András and Annika this week. We talk about listener reactions to last week’s episode and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the last of this year’s Nobel prizes in the natural sciences. In TWISH we reminisce about QED 2018 as we prepare attending the next one. Pontus Pokes the Pope for his failure to handle the relations to Russia but give’s him a broken clock award for taking a stand for refugees. Then it is time to look at the news:

  • EUROPE: ECDC gets extended mandate to tackle emerging future epidemics
  • NETHERLANDS: Court rules that Twitter has done enough to stop conspiracy theory about satanic paedophiles
  • SPAIN: No matter what social media giants promised, Spanish disinformation is rampant
  • RUSSIA: Russia’s financial monitoring agency adds Meta to list ‘terrorists and extremists’
  • GERMANY: Münster Circle issues Memorandum Integrative Medicine

German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach gets a Really Right Award together with Edzard Ernst and Nikil Mukerji for taking a stand against homeopathy.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; Pontus Pokes The Pope; News; Really Right; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:54 GREETINGS

0:13:23 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:18:23 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

0:24:47 NEWS

0:49:39 REALLY RIGHT

0:54:55 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    To people who believe in esotericism, i.e. in energy waves, water dowsing or homeopathy, I say: study quantum mechanics, it is not much stranger, but contrary to your claims it is experimentally proven!
    Anton Zeilinger, (20 May 1945 – ), Austrian quantum physicist and Nobel laureate in physics of 2022. /

0:58:00 OUT-TAKES