TheESP – Ep. #319 – It’s always aliens!

Blast from the past: Nobody Silences Simon Singh

The Hungarian election is coming up, with a lot of Russian propaganda polarizing the public. In TWISH we remember the legal decision that cleared up how “happily promoting bogus claim” was a fair statement by Simon Singh against the British Chiropractic Association. Pope Francis will finally meet up with Canadian Indigenous delegations this week, but will they finally get their apology?
Then we have the news:

• RUSSIA: Country’s scientists are to stay put
• HUNGARY: Pre-election state propaganda worsened by anti-Ukrainian sentiment
• INTERNATIONAL: Low vaccine uptake in Ukrainian population might be risk factor with refugees
• RUSSIA: People turning to VPNs to access band websites and content on the internet
• RUSSIA: New developments in support of accident theory regarding Dyatlov Pass Incident
• GERMANY: Homeopathy contracts cancelled in Bremen

The Heilpraktiker system in Germany gets this week’s Really Wrong award. Come on, Karl Lauterbach, you can fix this!

Enjoy!

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

0:00:53 GREETINGS

• HUNGARY: 2022 parliamentary election coming up
  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hungarian_parliamentary_election
• HUNGARY: Flat Earth Awards 2022

0:05:47 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 1 April 2010: Simon Singh wins “fair comment” libel appeal against BCA
  • Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE63018820100401?edition-redirect=uk
  • BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8598472.stm

0:11:51 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Finally meeting the Canadian delegations
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/03/pope-francis-consecrates-russia-ukraine-to-immaculate-heart-of-mary
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-americas/2022/03/popes-meeting-with-canadian-indigenous-opens-new-chapter-bishop-says

0:18:46 NEWS

• RUSSIA: Country’s scientists are to stay put
  • Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-tells-its-academics-avoid-international-conferences-this-year-2022-03-21/
• HUNGARY: Pre-election state propaganda worsened by anti-Ukrainian sentiment
  • VSquare: https://vsquare.org/putins-propagandists-how-russian-information-warfare-succeeded-in-hungary/
  • Euro News: https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/25/zelenskyy-tells-hungary-s-viktor-orban-to-decide-who-you-are-with
• INTERNATIONAL: Low vaccine uptake in Ukrainian population might be risk factor with refugees
  • the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/vaccine-uptake-in-ukraine-has-been-low-countries-receiving-refugees-need-to-help-people-get-their-jabs-179181
• RUSSIA: People turning to VPNs to access band websites and content on the internet
  • Euro News (Youtube): https://youtu.be/DYV9XfHQjAU
  • Deutche Welle: https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-circumvent-state-internet-censorship-in-russia/a-61054476
  • Deutche Welle: https://www.dw.com/en/russian-mps-vote-to-ban-tools-that-help-users-stay-incognito-online/a-39800157
• RUSSIA: New developments in support of accident theory regarding Dyatlov Pass Incident
  • IFLScience: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dyatlov-pass-incident-explanation-supported-by-new-video-evidence/
• GERMANY: Homeopathy contracts cancelled in Bremen
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2022/03/homeopathy-is-considered-to-be-useless-and-all-contracts-have-been-cancelled-in-bremen/

0:41:44 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: German ‘Heilpraktiker’ system is questionable and dangerous
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2022/03/is-the-german-heilpraktiker-well-trained-and-educated/

0:47:22 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Scientific work will never stop, and it would be terrible if it did. If there were no more problems, you would put your hands in your pockets and your head on a pillow and would work no more. In science rest is stagnation, rest is death.”
/ Max Planck (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947), German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. /

0:49:15 OUTRO

0:50:30 OUT-TAKES