This week Europe has lost a star in the sky and we hear about how Louis Pasteur managed to create a rabies vaccine back in 1885 (NB: he wasn’t even a medical doctor). Pope Francis seizes even more control about the Vatican’s finances and appoints an “extraordinary commissioner” to raid the entity looking after St Peter’s Basilica. Apparently, someone has been cooking the books.
In the news this week:
– After a new outbreak the German authorities suggest people stay at home for vacation
– Was SARS-CoV-2 really present in Barcelona in March 2019?
– WHO stops Hydroxychloroquine tests
– WHO launches new podcast – Health in Europe
– High risk for polio outbreak in Ukraine
– Russian disinformation operations revealed
– Swedish actor from “Fargo” creates documentary TV-series promoting bogus runestone in Minnesota
– What’s happening with Facebook?
– 5G towers burning in Limassol
– Climate change denier loses bet – has to pay up
– Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition bans most homeopathic products from claiming specific therapeutic effects
– Our friend Holm Hümmler airs a documentary about conspiracy theories
To end the episode secondary school students in Germany get today’s Really Right Award for not backing down from their “tinfoil hat” project
Enjoy!
Segments:
Intro; Greetings; This Week; Pontus Pokes the Pope; News; Really Right / Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes
Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe
0:00:27 INTRO
0:00:53 GREETINGS
0:05:26 THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
Louis Pasteur, successfully demonstrated a working Rabies vaccine on 6 July 1885.
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- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur
0:13:49 PONTUS POKES THE POPE – Frankie steps up the fight against financial corruption
0:13:28 NEWS
- GERMANY: Authorities suggest people stay at home for vacation
- SPAIN: Was SARS-COV-2 really present in Barcelona in March 2019?
- INTERNATIONAL: WHO stops Hydroxychloroquine tests
- Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-drugs/who-halts-hydroxychloroquine-hiv-drugs-in-covid-trials-after-failure-to-reduce-death-idUSKBN2450OJ
- the WHO: https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/04-07-2020-who-discontinues-hydroxychloroquine-and-lopinavir-ritonavir-treatment-arms-for-covid-19
- INTERNATIONAL: WHO launches new podcast – Health in Europe
- UKRAINE: High risk for polio outbreak
- RUSSIA / INTERNATIONAL: Russian disinformation operations revealed
- Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-secondary-infektion-disinformation/
- Secondary Infektion: https://secondaryinfektion.org/report/secondary-infektion-at-a-glance/
- the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/vladimir-putin-secures-constitutional-changes-allowing-him-to-rule-until-2036-what-this-means-for-russia-141103
- SWEDEN / INTERNATIONAL: Swedish actor from “Fargo” creates documentary TV-series promoting bogus rune stone in Minnesota
- INTERNATIONAL: What’s happening with Facebook?
- BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-53228343
- Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/2020/07/01/stop-hate-for-profit-start-funding-facts/
- the Guardian (1): https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/05/jim-steyer-the-man-who-took-on-mark-zuckerberg
- the Guardian (2): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/05/the-guardian-view-on-facebook-and-democracy-real-and-present-danger
- CYPRUS: Four burning 5G towers in Limassol
- SWEDEN: Climate change denier loses bet – has to pay up
- HUNGARY: National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition bans most homeopathic products from claiming specific therapeutic effects
- Germany: Short documentary about conspiracy theories with our friend Holm Hümmler, aired last Sunday (5th)
- GWUP (German Skeptics): https://blog.gwup.net/2020/07/03/verschwoerungstheorien-fake-facts-erobern-die-welt-bei-n-tv/
0:56:54 REALLY RIGHT / REALLY WRONG
GERMANY: Secondary School students in Germany don’t back down from their “tinfoil hat” project
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- Gesamtschule Moers: https://www.gesamtschule-moers.de/
- Lokalkompass: https://www.lokalkompass.de/moers/c-politik/geschwister-scholl-gesamtschule-moers-unter-laecherlichem-beschuss-aggressiver-verschwoerungstheoretiker_a1395300
- Rhurbarone: https://www.ruhrbarone.de/moers-geschwister-scholl-gesamtschule-kapituliert-vor-trollen/187277
- GWUP (German Skeptics): https://blog.gwup.net/2020/07/01/schule-startet-projekt-zum-thema-verschwoerungstheorien-und-wird-mit-der-praxis-konfrontiert/
1:00:48 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
“I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.”
/ Louis Pasteur, French biologist, microbiologist and chemist. /
1:01:47 OUTRO
1:03:11 OUT-TAKES