TheESP – Ep. #370 – Acu-punctured!

… also, Orgone energy is utter nonsense
Fancy a coffee in Singapore with András? If you are quick you may get lucky! In TWISH this week we hear about Wilhelm Reich, infamous for his so-called “orgone theory“. No pope today, so we dive right into the news:

• INTERNATIONAL: New DNA find points to raccoon dogs as potential covid origin
• NORWAY: Norwegian footballer gets her lung acu-punctured
• GERMANY: Private TV channel tries to produce a show with an antisemitic Covid denier and fails
• SWEDEN: Confounderer of the year awarded €9000 compensation for being exposed in documentary
• GERMANY: Trust in homeopathy is sinking
• SWEDEN: Sales of organic food dropping fast

To finish off, we hand out a Really Wrong Award to Bishop John Sherrington who insists he has a right to harrass people at abortion clinics.

Enjoy!

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

0:00:52 GREETINGS

• Morning coffee with András in Singapore?
  • Mail András!: mailto:andras@theesp.eu
• Word of the week and Who’s quacking – send in your contributions
  • Mail us!: mailto:info@theesp.eu

0:03:54 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 24 March 1897: Birth of Wilhelm Reich, father of the pseudoscientific orgone theory
  • Wired: https://www.wired.com/2014/11/fantastically-wrong-wilhelm-reich/

0:13:44 NEWS

• INTERNATIONAL: New DNA find points to raccoon dogs as potential covid origin
  • El País: https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-03-17/new-covid-19-origins-data-point-to-raccoon-dogs-in-china-market.html
• NORWAY: Norwegian footballer gets her lung acu-punctured
  • TV2: https://www.tv2.no/sport/fotball/fikk-punktert-lungen-under-behandling-fikk-sjokk/15579114/
• GERMANY: Private TV channel tries to produce a show with an antisemitic Covid denier and fails
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/03/15/das-projekt-mit-michael-wendler-ist-nicht-durchsetzbar/
• SWEDEN: Confounderer of the year awarded €9000 compensation for being exposed in documentary
  • Expo: https://expo.se/2023/03/staten-doms-betala-skadestand-till-antivaccin-aktivist
• GERMANY: Trust in homeopathy is sinking
  • GWUP: https://blog.gwup.net/2023/03/15/in-deutschland-geht-das-vertrauen-in-die-wirksamkeit-von-homoeopathischen-arzneimitteln-zurueck/
• SWEDEN: Sales of organic food dropping fast
  • Omni: https://tt.omni.se/rapport-konsumenter-fortsatter-rata-ekomat/a/8JX0RE

0:36:33 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Catholic Bishop John Sherrington condemns new ‘buffer zones’ around abortion clinics
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/church-in-uk-and-ireland/2023/03/english-bishop-condemns-abortion-clinic-buffer-zones
  • Humanists UK: https://humanists.uk/2023/01/31/house-of-lords-backs-buffer-zones-around-abortion-clinics

0:39:52 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
/ John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704), English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “father of liberalism”. /

0:41:36 OUTRO

0:42:51 OUT-TAKES