The European Skeptics Podcast

We are all animalsAnnika is back in Europe and for unclear reasons we may all move to an uninhabited island in Sweden (don’t hold your breath). The German Informations­-Netzwerk Homöopathie (INH) is sending an open letter to the new German health minister Karl Lauterback – we should all retweet about this to make sure he reads it! In TWISH we hear about how one of the worst fraudulent scientific(?) papers ever, authored by Andrew Wakefield, was finally retracted in 2010. No pope to poke today, so we then head for the news:EUROPE: WHO – 732 days in 15 figuresEUROPE: WHO – End of pandemic in sight?FINLAND: Biodiversity-loss denial is the new craze?HUNGARY: The Hungarian Medicines Agency files official complaint over misleading claims about FavipiravirGERMANY: The bright side of having pseudosciences around?UK: Measles warning for children as jab rate falls in EnglandUK: People’s preference for honesty is key for a working democracySeveral awards to hand out today: Eric Clapton gets a dishonorable mention, the P