TheESP – Ep. #491 – 2.5 million lives saved

We’ve got some listener feedback about the popularity of lie detectors in Ukraine, and in TWISH we hear about the man behind the number, Amedeo Avogadro. Of course, we then get into this week’s news: NORWAY: Russian disinformation regarding made up ecological catastrophe RUSSIA / EU: Putin’s disinformation efforts are changing for the worse GLOBAL: COVID Vaccines saved 2.5 Million lives in the first 4 years of the pandemic UK: Has the government learned the lessons from the Southport riots? UK: Funding to promote anti-LGBT conversion practices surges INTERNATIONAL: Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch! The Really Wrong award goes to the Swedish fundamentalist evangelical Genesis organisation and the Really Right award to Prof. Dan Larhammar for his excellent take down of creationist nonsense. Enjoy! https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-491.html Segments: 0:00:27 Intro 0:00:50 Greetings 0:08:06 TWISH 0:24:29 News 0:53:34 Really Wrong / Really Right 0:59:19 Quote 1:01:16 Outro 1:02:39 Outtakes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.