Overview

• Gruber and Lauterbach have continued their online dispute over how seriously the public should respond to record 40 °C temperatures.
• Gruber says she satirizes “infantile panic-mongering” over the heat rather than mocking those who suffer or die in high temperatures.
• Lauterbach denounces Gruber’s mocking tone as disrespectful and warns it could undermine crucial health warnings for older adults.
• The Deutsche Alzheimer Gesellschaft highlights that dementia patients struggle to regulate body temperature and face higher risks during heat waves.
• Alzheimer-Forschung.de reports no scientific evidence linking long-term statin use to dementia, refuting a key claim in Gruber’s critique.