TheESP – Ep. #542 – Pyrocumulonimbus

This week we mention World Hepatitis Day (28 July) and new study that (again) finds no relationship between mobile cellphones and cancer. We also have two short interviews by Annika(!) from Skepticon Australia, with Richard Saunders and George Hrab! In TWISH we hear about John Tyndall, Irish physicist and great science communicator. Then we take a look at the news: SWEDEN: Quackery round-up: Frequency therapy AUSTRIA: Kneipp Therapy: Popular tradition, still very little evidence FRANCE / SPAIN: Wildfires in France and Spain INTERNATIONAL: Snopes’ AI detection toolkit The Really Wrong Award goes to the new phenomenon of ‘Agentic AI’. Enjoy! https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-542.html Segments: 0:00:27 Intro 0:00:51 Greetings 0:12:04 Interviews 0:21:19 TWISH 0:29:38 News 0:50:42 Really Wrong 0:56:27 Quote 0:58:53 Outro 1:00:16 Outtakes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.