Vaccine

This week Pontus is a bit under the weather so András and Annika send him their “thoughts and prayers” (don’t worry, he is fine). Then we mention an interesting documentary about SCAM practitioners and give a heads up for next weeks jubilee episode 250. And five years ago this week the ESP made its debut! Then we give a Covid update before we get into the news:

• The new Pre-Bunking game: Breaking Harmony Square
• Another science communicator and journalist charged for speaking out against frauds
• Edzard Ernst’s challenge to all homeopaths in the world
• Thermographic imaging – a risk to cancer patients
• Newly emerging issues with climate change actions
• Measles cases in 2019 at a record high in 23 years

To round off the show, Victor Orbán gets a Really Wrong award for using the pandemic as an excuse for homophobic nonsense.

Enjoy!

Segments:
Intro; Greetings; COVID Update; News; Really Wrong; Quote and Farewell; Outro; Out-takes

Events Calendar: https://theesp.eu/events_in_europe

0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:51 GREETINGS

• Interesting documentary about SCAM practitioners
  • Ardmediathek: https://www.ardmediathek.de/daserste/video/reportage-und-dokumentation/heilpraktiker-quacksalber-oder-sanfte-alternative/das-erste/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL3JlcG9ydGFnZSBfIGRva3VtZW50YXRpb24gaW0gZXJzdGVuLzllYjM2MGM0LTdmMmEtNGY3Ny04Y2I1LWQxYzVmYmE2OThmMw/
• Public announcement of episode 250!

0:09:57 COVID UPDATE

• GERMANY: Famous Covid denier still not charged – freedom of speech?
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2020/11/12/die-staatsanwaelte-schweigen-weiter-im-fall-attila-hildmann/
• ITALY: Did COVID circulate in Italy as early as September 2019?
  • Sky News: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-circulating-in-italy-as-early-as-september-2019-scientists-claim-12133825
  • PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33176598/
• AUSTRIA: Austria in lockdown
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54945400
• INTERNATIONAL: Promising results of vaccine candidates
  • the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/moderna-follows-pfizer-with-exciting-vaccine-news-how-to-read-these-dramatic-developments-149935
• GERMANY: German government message
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/stil/trends-nischen/bundesregierung-veroeffentlicht-corona-spots-besonderehelden-17053454.html

0:28:59 NEWS

• INTERNATIONAL: The new Pre-Bunking game: Breaking Harmony Square – of course Sander van der Linden has something to do with it
  • Misinformation Review: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/breaking-harmony-square-a-game-that-inoculates-against-political-misinformation/
• GERMANY: Another science communicator and journalist charged for speaking out against frauds
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2020/11/09/gegen-blender-hochstapler-und-scharlatane-spendenaktion-fuer-baerbel-schwertfeger/
• INTERNATIONAL: Edzard Ernst’s challenge to all homeopaths in the world
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2020/11/a-challenge-for-all-homeopaths-of-the-world/
• EUROPE: Thermographic imaging – a risk to cancer patients
  • ECSO: https://www.ecso.org/news/thermographic-imaging-a-risk-to-cancer-patients/
• INTERNATIONAL: Newly emerging issues with climate change actions
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2020_100_green-deal-good-for-a-climate-neutral-europe-bad-for-the-planet.php
  • Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201112113118.htm
• INTERNATIONAL: Measles cases in 2019 at a record high in 23 years
  • Outbreak News: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/global-measles-cases-hit-23-year-high-in-2019-deaths-rise-50-in-recent-years-36024/

0:46:00 REALLY WRONG

• VIKTOR ORBÁN FOR USING THE CHAOS CAUSED BY COVID TO COME UP WITH NEW HOMOPHOBIC REGULATIONS
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54902048
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/eu-hungary-veto-budget-viktor-orban

0:54:50 QUOTE AND FAREWELL
“Science may be weird and incomprehensible – more weird and less comprehensible than any theology – but science works. It gets results. It can fly you to Saturn, slingshotting you around Venus and Jupiter on the way. We may not understand quantum theory (heaven knows, I don’t), but a theory that predicts the real world to ten decimal places cannot in any straightforward sense be wrong.”
/ Richard Dawkins (26 March 1941 – ), British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. /

0:56:48 OUTRO

0:58:02 OUT-TAKES