TheESP – Ep. #371 – Fake Poutine?

… please don’t eat like Gwyneth Paltrow
The IPCC is out, but of course we all new it would be bad. We have listener feedback about acupuncture, SkepKon 2023 is announced and both Pontus and András are out there talking to the public. In TWISH we hear about Ludwig Büchner and the Pope has trouble getting heard. After that, we look into the news:

• GERMANY: Reichsbürger extremist sentenced to 10 years in prison
• RUSSIA: Russian whose daughter drew anti-war picture flees jail term
• PORTUGAL: Voting for the Flying Unicorn Award open until the end of the day
• GERMANY: Edzard Ernst has a new book out
• UK: Genetic Technology Act now passed into law
• RUSSIA: Does Putin have fake body doubles?

After all that, we have our first Word of the Week segment and Gwyneth Paltrow gets yet another well deserved Really Wrong Award.

Enjoy!

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

0:00:52 GREETINGS

• New IPCC report out – nothing new, really…
• Listener feedback: Were we too hard on acupuncture?
• SkepKon in Frankfurt in May – come!
  • SkepKon: https://www.skepkon.org/
• Pontus went to school to not talk about religion
• András to give a talk to Science Chicks – as an only male speaker

0:18:07 TWISH – THIS WEEK IN SKEPTICAL HISTORY

• 29 March 1824: Ludwig Büchner was born in Darmstadt, Germany
  • Freedom from religion: https://ffrf.org/ftod-cr/item/14773-ludwig-buchner

0:24:51 PONTUS POKES THE POPE

• Africa vs. Europe on being gay – what will you do about it, Frankie?
  • Crux: https://cruxnow.com/news-analysis/2023/03/from-europe-to-africa-hard-lessons-in-the-limits-of-papal-power

0:30:04 NEWS

• GERMANY: Reichsbürger extremist sentenced to 10 years in prison
  • DW: https://www.dw.com/en/reichsb%C3%BCrger-extremist-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison/a-65117419
  • WTF Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78p5YJ94xxk
• RUSSIA: Russian whose daughter drew anti-war picture flees jail term
  • BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65102392
• PORTUGAL: Voting for the Flying Unicorn Award open until the end of the day
  • COMCEPT: https://comcept.org/2023/03/22/votacao-para-o-premio-unicornio-voador-2022/
• GERMANY: Edzard Ernst has a new book out
  • Edzard Ernst: https://edzardernst.com/2023/03/my-new-book-is-out-two-months-earlier-than-announced/
• UK: Genetic Technology Act now passed into law
  • UK Government: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/genetic-technology-act-key-tool-for-uk-food-security
• RUSSIA: Does Putin have fake body doubles?
  • Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-ukraine-trip-body-double-conspiracy-theories-ears-2023-3

0:48:59 REALLY WRONG

• Really Wrong: Gwyneth Paltrow for promoting unhealthy diet and getting an IV while podcasting
  • the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/21/the-truth-about-gwyneth-paltrows-diet-it-is-as-strange-as-youd-expect

0:54:10 WORD OF THE WEEK

• Two proverbs from Gábor Kovacs:
• Slovakian: Doveruj ale preveruj – Trust but verify
• Hungarian: Minden zsák megtalálja a foltját – Every bag finds it’s patch

0:59:24 QUOTE AND FAREWELL

“Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.”
/ Leonhard Euler (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783), Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer. /

1:00:33 OUTRO

1:01:48 OUT-TAKES