Hvaldimir

…anthroposophy on fire?
Full episode this week folks, with the premier of a new segment to boot (see below). We talk about Hvaldimir the Russian spy whale and remind you of Annika’s SITPO talk on 5 July and comment on feedback from last week’s interview. In TWISH we hear about the recent passing of Silvio Berlusconi and then demonstrate that the Catholic Church has not change one bit when it comes to how they handle sex abuse scandals. After that it’s time for the news:

• GERMANY: New poster about Bach flower remedies
• RUSSIA / UKRAINE: Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
• GERMANY / AUSTRIA: The Heinz Oberhummer Award goes to The Show With the Mouse
• SWEDEN: Tongue web cut procedures has drastically fallen
• EU / UK: Sense About Science teams up with the European Commission and comes up with new guidelines for assessing policies
• UK / UKRAINE: Ukraine built more onshore wind turbines in past year than England
• GERMANY: Pharmacy students also distancing themselves from homeopathy

This week’s Really Wrong Award goes to a teacher in a French Steiner school who “smoked” their students and still seemes to think that was a good thing. Then we have our first installment of “Who’s Quacking?”, Romanian member of parliament Diana Iovanovici Șoșoacă – anti-vaxxer and Russian apologist.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; Pontus Pokes The Pope; News; Really Wrong; Who’s Quacking?; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

• Hvaldimir the Russian spy whale
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/suspected-russia-trained-spy-whale-reappears-off-swedens-coast
• 5th of July – SitP talk with Annika in Cologne
  • SITP Cologne: https://www.facebook.com/sitpkoeln/events
• Feedback regarding Brian Deer interview

0:08:39 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 12 June 2023: Death of Silvio Berlusconi
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65877241

0:15:17 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• New Italian Catholic sex scandal proves the Church is still the same
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2023/05/abuse-scandal-in-italy-raises-issues-of-lay-supervision-disclosure

0:21:37 NEWS

• GERMANY: New poster about Bach flower remedies
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/05/25/zehn-knallharte-fakten-ueber-bach-blueten-zum-download/
• RUSSIA / UKRAINE: Ukrainian children abducted by Russia
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/i-was-so-scared-the-ukrainian-children-taken-to-russia-for-financial-gain
• GERMANY / AUSTRIA: The Heinz Oberhummer Award goes to The Show With the Mouse
  • Oberhummer Award: https://oberhummeraward.at
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Sendung_mit_der_Maus
• SWEDEN: Tongue web cut procedures has drastically fallen
  • DN: https://www.dn.se/sverige/tungbandsklippningar-pa-spadbarn-minskar-kraftigt-i-stockholm/
• EU / UK: Sense About Science teams up with the European Commission and comes up with new guidelines for assessing policies
  • European Commission: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC133950
• UK / UKRAINE: Ukraine built more onshore wind turbines in past year than England
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/28/ukraine-built-more-onshore-wind-turbines-last-year-than-england
• GERMANY: Pharmacy students also distancing themselves from homeopathy
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/05/25/pharmaziestudierende-lehnen-homoeopathie-entschieden-ab/

0:45:45 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: French Waldorf teacher telling students to inhale smoke
  • SITP Switzerland: https://skepticsinthepub.ch/2023/06/05/deux-plaintes-deposees-contre-une-enseignante-steiner-a-colmar-elle-allume-un-feu-en-classe-au-risque-d-asphyxier-ses-eleves/

0:50:25 WHO’S QUACKING?

• ROMANIA: Diana Iovanovici Șoșoacă
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Iovanovici_Șoșoacă

0:57:39 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Only one who is completely informed can decide freely”
/ Natalie Grams-Nobmann (12 April 1978 – ), German physician and author. Formerly a practicing homeopath, she became known throughout Germany as a whistleblower for her 2015 debut book Homeopathy Reconsidered – What Really Helps Patients in which she criticized homeopathy. /

0:59:03 OUTRO

1:00:18 OUT-TAKES