TheESP – Ep. #343 – King of Homeopathy

– but at least the bees were informed of the death of their queen

We’re back from ESC in Vienna! Thanks to all who came up and said hi to us, that was a blast! This week we reflect on what Charles III, the king of SCAM, may mean for skepticism and what there is to say about the Swedish election results. For TWISH we get to learn about Foucault and his pendulum, a simple but brilliant demonstration of the rotation of the Earth. We leave the poking-of-the-Pope for next week and dig into the news:

• GERMANY: Prominent figure of New Germanic Medicine Helmut Pilhar dies
• UK / INTERNATIONAL: Madness around the Queen’s death
• UK: Celebrity Russel Brand admits spreading falsehoods
• EUROPE: Europe’s hottest summer on record
• RUSSIA: Anti-censorship tool lets Russians read Blocked News
• GERMANY: Study shows behavioral studies got the sampling all wrong
• FRANCE: Didier Raoult‘s lab under investigation

German party FDP and airlines get the Really Wrong Award for campaigning against masks on planes.

Enjoy!

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

0:00:53 GREETINGS

• We were at ESC!
  • ECSO: https://www.ecso.org/esc2022/
• Queen Elizabeth II died – It’s now the age of the King of Homeopathy
  • the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/king-charles-inherits-crown-with-support-for-monarchy-at-record-low-but-future-not-set-in-stone-190448
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2022/09/charles-the-alternative-king/
  • the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/what-to-expect-from-the-reign-of-king-charles-iii-190382
• Swedish elections…
  • the Conversation: https://theconversation.com/swedish-election-triumph-for-the-nationalist-right-leaves-establishment-parties-in-a-quandary-190467

0:12:37 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 18 September 1819: Birthday of Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, French physicist
  • MacTutor: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Foucault/

0:19:21 NEWS

• GERMANY: Prominent figure of New Germanic Medicine Helmut Pilhar dies
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2022/09/helmut-pilhar-1965-2022/
• UK / INTERNATIONAL: Madness around the Queen’s death
  • Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/09/08/queen-elizabeth-death-hoaxes/
  • Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rainbow-buckingham-palace-queen-death/
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2022/09/10/nostradamus-und-die-queen/
  • Metro UK: https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/11/royal-beekeeper-knocked-on-each-hive-to-inform-bees-of-queens-death-17342552/
• UK: Celebrity Russel Brand admits spreading falsehoods
  • Full Fact: https://fullfact.org/health/russell-brand-ivermectin/
• EUROPE: Europe’s hottest summer on record
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62833937
• RUSSIA: Anti-censorship tool lets Russians read Blocked News
  • Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-internet-censorship-samizdat-online/
• GERMANY: Study shows behavioral studies got the sampling all wrong
  • Science Daily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220912112412.htm
• FRANCE: Didier Raoult’s lab under investigation
  • Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com/2022/09/08/didier-raoult-papers-earn-expressions-of-concern-as-criminal-investigation-gets-underway/

0:44:03 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: FDP and German airlines for campaigning against masks on planes
  • Tages Schau: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/maskenpflicht-flugzeug-aufhebung-101.html

0:46:25 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“You make up shit as you go and then some shit sticks and some stinks” (referring to the scientific method)
/ Massimo Pigliucci, (16 January 1964 – ), Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York /

0:48:37 OUTRO

0:49:53 OUT-TAKES