TheESP – Ep. #296 – Mandatory vaccination

How hard can it be to get people to do the right thing?

We start out with some exiting news about Annika’s upcoming online talk, a huge milestone for Susan Gerbic and Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia and a good legal ruling for Snopes. And our friend Holm Hümmler doesn’t only have a new book out, he also one of the select guests at FerngesprächCon last week, together with Martin Moder and many others.
A special feature this week is our interview with Ovidiu Covaciu about the vaccination situation in Romania and Eastern Europe
Then, we get into the news:

• GERMANY: Homeopathy is out for Bavarian health education system (not supported anymore!)
• ITALY: Big protests over mandatory covid green passes
• INTERNATIONAL / GERMANY: Natalie Grams in English media
• RUSSIA: Population crises worse, due to covid deaths
• RUSSIA: Huge methane gas leak discovered by European Copernicus satellite

Segments: Intro; Greetings; Interview; News; Really Wrong; Patreon And Episode 300; Quote And Farewell; Outro; Out-Takes;
 
0:00:27 INTRO

0:00:52 GREETINGS

• Annika’s SITP Online talk on 11th of November
  • Skeptics in the Pub – Online: https://sitp.online/show/the-woos-and-woes-of-wikipedia-an-opportunity-for-skeptical-activism-or-a-conspiratory-club-annika-harrison/
• GSoW got 100 million pageviews! WOW!
  • Susan Gerbic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SusanGerbic/status/1449805443207876610
• Big win for Snopes on legal case
  • Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/2021/10/08/lawsuit-judge-sides-with-snopes/
• New book by Holm Hümmler!
  • Springer: https://www.springer.com/de/book/9783662632086
• FerngesprächCon last weekend
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2021/10/13/erste-ferngespraech-convention-am-wochenende-in-oesterreich/

0:08:57 INTERVIEW

• Interview with Ovidiu Covaciu: Covid vaccination status in Romania and Eastern Europe

0:25:13 NEWS

• GERMANY: Homeopathy is out for Bavarian health education system (not supported anymore!)
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2021/10/19/homoeopathie-und-aerzteschaft-die-grenze-zur-pseudomedizin-ist-nun-endlich-klar-gezogen/
• ITALY: Big protests over mandatory covid green passes
  • Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italian-police-use-water-cannon-break-up-health-pass-protest-port-2021-10-18/
  • Euro News: https://www.euronews.com/2021/10/10/far-right-leaders-arrested-at-large-protest-in-italy-over-covid-passes
  • The Local (IT): https://www.thelocal.it/20211018/italys-green-pass-workplace-protests-come-to-an-end-as-police-disperse-crowd/
• INTERNATIONAL / GERMANY: Natalie Grams in English media
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2021/10/12/its-a-lot-of-hate-but-its-really-fun-natalie-grams-and-the-pseudoscience-of-homeopathy-bei-bloomberg/
• RUSSIA: Population crises worse, due to covid deaths
  • The Bell: https://thebell.io/pravitelstvo-sprognozirovalo-sokrashhenie-naseleniya-rossii-na-1-mln-chelovek-za-dva-goda
  • DN.se: https://www.dn.se/varlden/ryska-befolkningen-minskar-med-rekordfart/
• RUSSIA: Huge methane gas leak discovered by European Copernicus satellite
  • Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/russia-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

0:44:00 REALLY WRONG

• REALLY WRONG: Norway to keep expanding their oil and gas industry despite Paris agreement
  • Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norway-will-continue-explore-oil-gas-incoming-government-says-2021-10-13/
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-58900652

0:47:39 PATREON AND EPISODE 300

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  • Patreon: https://patreon.com/theESP
• Episode 300 coming up: Send us questions!
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0:50:41 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Homeopathy doesn’t work beyond the Placebo effect.”
/ Natalie Grams-Nobmann (12 April 1978 – ), German physician and author, formerly a practicing homeopath.  /

0:51:28 OUTRO

0:52:43 OUT-TAKES