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TheESP – Ep. #405 – Political shenanigans

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In this week’s TWISH we hear about Trofim Lysenko before we look into the news:

  • EU: Glyphosate update
  • INTERNATIONAL: Nostalgia in politics
  • UK: The Good Law Project supports the General Medical Council taking action against harmful misinformation
  • NORTHERN IRELAND: ‘The Hum’ is back!

Naturopaths selling Miracle Mineral Supplements (MMS) are promoting a life threatening substance with no possible benefit. This came to a class call recently when a toddler coudl have died as a result. We hand out a Really Wrong Award for this completely irresponsible action. In Word of the Week we looking into how to talk about scams and frauds in Finnish.

Enjoy!

Segments: Intro; Greetings; TWISH; News; Really Wrong; Word of the Week; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

0:06:17 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

0:14:21 NEWS

0:39:02 REALLY WRONG

0:43:20 WORD OF THE WEEK

  • FINNISH:
    Huijaus – ‘scam, fraud’; Huijari – ‘charlatan’, ‘crook’, ‘swindler’
  • ‘Pelkkää huijausta koko juttu’ – ‘The whole thing is just a scam’

0:47:12 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

    I don’t mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
    Wolfgang Pauli (25 April 1900 – 15 December 1958), Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. /

0:49:27 OUTRO

0:50:42 OUT-TAKES