The new Hungarian government are making all the right noises and we hope they will live up to it. Don’t forget to get your ESC Liverpool tickets, and in TWISH we here about Magnus Hirschfeld, a pioneer in fighting for what we today call LGBTQ rights. Then, we head for the news:

• NORWAY / EU: Warning to athletes: Do not buy dietary supplements online, even from within Europe
• ITALY: PM Georgia Meloni uses deepfake of herself to warn of misuse of AI
• INTERNATIONAL: AI fitness instructors selling unreal gains
• UK: AI platforms pushing Reform?

Endometriosis can be a debilitating condition but what the Bucharest Endometriosis Centre is doing to their patients seem terrible. For that they are Really Wrong.

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https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-531.html

Segments:

0:00:27 Intro

0:00:52 Greetings

0:10:46 TWISH

0:19:24 News

0:44:55 Really Wrong

0:54:55 Quote

0:58:32 Outro

0:59:54 Outtakes

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ESC Liverpool 2026 tickets are now available! Get yours now! Chris French wrote a eulogy for Nick Pope, UFO profile who passed away, and in TWISH we hear about Gustave Le Bon who identified the mass psychology of crowds over 150 years ago. Then we head for the news:

• UK: Humanists UK celebrates 130th anniversary
• INTERNATIONAL: Haunted houses explained?
• INTERNATIONAL: Skeptical Science experiment results and lessons learned
• NETHERLANDS / SWEDEN: To meat or not to meat?
• SWITZERLAND: The endless loop of homeopathy finally broken?

Jehovah’s Witnesses’ ‘clarification’ regarding blood transfusions is still harmful and stupid, and for that they get this week’s award for being Really Wrong.

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https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-530.html

Segments:

0:00:27 Intro

0:00:52 Greetings

0:07:29 TWISH

0:15:30 News

0:37:54 Really Wrong

0:44:35 Quote

0:45:39 Outro

0:47:02 Outtakes

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Next week on 6th May the tickets are released for ESC Liverpool. They may sell out fast, so be quick! In other news we note the demise of Desmond Morris and if you liked are interview with Kat Ford, a preprint of her Glastonbury article is now available online! In TWISH we learn about the Scottish polymath John Arbuthnot, and then, it’s time for the news:

• UK: GP struck off register for garlic oil cancer cure claims
• ROMANIA: Romania leads EU measles cases as vaccination rates collapse
• AUSTRIA: Doctor using fake therapies and bogus diagnostics now in court
• UK: Food intolerance tests have become a multimillion-pound industry
• BELGIUM: SKEPP handed out their yearly awards

Illegal peptide sales promise you the world, but are unproven, costly, and possibly dangerous. For that, they are Really Wrong

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https://theesp.eu/podcast_archive/theesp-ep-529.html

Segments:

0:00:26 Intro

0:00:51 Greetings

0:08:10 TWISH

0:15:04 News

0:37:21 Really Wrong

0:41:16 Quote

0:42:55 Outro

0:44:17 Outtakes

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