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TheESP – Ep. #311 – Two years of Covid in Europe

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We are all animals

Annika is back in Europe and for unclear reasons we may all move to an uninhabited island in Sweden (don’t hold your breath). The German Informations­-Netzwerk Homöopathie (INH) is sending an open letter to the new German health minister Karl Lauterback – we should all retweet about this to make sure he reads it! In TWISH we hear about how one of the worst fraudulent scientific(?) papers ever, authored by Andrew Wakefield, was finally retracted in 2010. No pope to poke today, so we then head for the news:

  • EUROPE: WHO – 732 days in 15 figures
  • EUROPE: WHO – End of pandemic in sight?
  • FINLAND: Biodiversity-loss denial is the new craze?
  • HUNGARY: The Hungarian Medicines Agency files official complaint over misleading claims about Favipiravir
  • GERMANY: The bright side of having pseudosciences around?
  • UK: Measles warning for children as jab rate falls in England
  • UK: People’s preference for honesty is key for a working democracy

Several awards to hand out today: Eric Clapton gets a dishonorable mention, the Polish PiS-party get a repeat prize and the German Catholic Church gets a brand new Really Wrong Award for persecuting and harassing their own people for their sexual orientation. Journalist Hajo Seppelt gets a Really Right Award Award for his documentary “Wie Gott uns Schuf”.

Enjoy!

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

0:00:54 GREETINGS

0:08:25 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:14:10 NEWS

0:41:34 REALLY WRONG / REALLY RIGHT

0:48:02 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    “Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts — some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.”
    Theodosius Dobzhansky (25 January 1900 – 18 December 18), prominent Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology. /

0:50:31 OUTRO

0:51:46 OUT-TAKES