TheESP – Ep. #327 – Don’t let the doomers get to you

We need to fight for abortion rights – again

Monkeypox is coming – is that the new pandemic? Our favourite ESC is the European Skeptics Congress in Vienna in September and we’re counting on seeing you there. The DA! Awards are coming and if you live in Germany you should register your nominations. Then we have an error correction from last week regarding horses and snails… No TWISH today so we jump right into Pope Francis meeting with Bono (of U2 fame) and a pretty remarkable exchange between the two. Then it’s time for the news:

• SWITZERLAND: Climate Doom
• SPAIN: Facebook fails to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation
• EU: Lobby group for ‘integrative medicine’ in the EU
• UKRAINE: YouTube removes more than 9,000 channels relating to Ukraine war
• UK: Gene edited tomatoes could soon be sold in England

Anthroposophic quack doctor Harald Matthes gets his second Really Wrong Award this month, tune in to find out what he has been up to this time!

Enjoy!

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

0:00:51 GREETINGS

• Hey hey we’re the Monkeys!
  • ECDC: https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/ecdc-monkeypox-response-options
• ESC in September in Vienna
  • ECSO: https://www.ecso.org/esc2022/
• Time for the DA! awards
  • DA! Awards: https://aufklaerungsdienst.de/category/veranstaltung/da-art-award/
• Schnecken oder Schecken?
  • Amazon: https://www.amazon.de/Gedankenlesen-durch-Schneckenstreicheln-Tieren-Physik/dp/3446432159

0:09:52 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Bono vs. the Pope – Frankie reveals his bonkers views on women
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2022/05/pope-and-u2s-bono-push-womens-empowerment-in-anti-poverty-campaign

0:14:17 NEWS

• SWITZERLAND: Climate Doom
  • Julia Steinberger: https://jksteinberger.medium.com/the-kids-are-not-ok-c518fffb475
• SPAIN: Facebook fails to stop Spanish language anti-abortion disinformation
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/17/spanish-anti-abortion-facebook-pages-disinformation
• EU: Lobby group for ‘integrative medicine’ in the EU
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2022/05/the-european-parliaments-pathetic-attempt-to-dabble-in-integrative-medicine/
• UKRAINE: YouTube removes more than 9,000 channels relating to Ukraine war
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/22/youtube-ukraine-invasion-russia-video-removals
• UK: Gene edited tomatoes could soon be sold in England
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61537610

0:32:57 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Harald Matthes, AGAIN! This time because his hospital promotes an unscientific, untested, and unproven cocid vaccine schedule.
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2022/05/anthroposophical-hospital-defies-covid-19-regulations/

0:41:30 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
/ Sokrates, (c. 470–399 BC), Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. /

0:43:15 OUTRO

0:44:30 OUT-TAKES

CHARITIES FOR UKRAINE

• Ukraine Humanitarian Fund
  • Ukraine Humanitarian Fund: https://crisisrelief.un.org/t/ukraine
• Razom For Ukraine
  • Razom For Ukraine: https://razomforukraine.humanitru.com/donate
• The Kyiv Independent
  • The Kyiv Independent : https://kyivindependent.com/
• UNICEF
  • UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/conflict-ukraine-pose-immediate-threat-children
• Migration Aid
  • Migration Aid: https://migrationaid.org/