The European Skeptics Podcast - The ESP
Episodes
TheESP- Ep. #127 - Annika Merkelbach, SkepKon and GSoW
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interviewed Annika Merkelbach, who told us what’s new in Germany, how the greatest German skeptical convention SkepKon went and why the...
TheESP - Ep. #126 - Colliding worlds, more measles and Poking the Pope
10 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We're getting our release schedule back on track, just two days after the previous episode(!).We talk about Worlds in Collision, how the infamous Andr...
TheESP - Ep. #125 - Pepijn van Erp
08 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interviewed Dutch mathematician and skeptical activist Pepijn van Erp to talk about his blog, his work at Stichting Skepsis and the Dutch...
TheESP - Ep. #124 - Full Fact, vaccinations, intravaginal manipulations, Rigvir & plants vs bullies
28 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we start by talking mediums and frauds through the example of Colin Fry, then move on to our news items, including:- Full Fact's surve...
TheESP - Ep. #123 - Enrico Zabeo
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interviewed Italian skeptic and podcaster Enrico Zabeo, who's one of the founders and hosts of Radio CICAP, the official podcast for the ...
TheESP - Ep. #122 - The Illuminati, vaccination news, exorcism, bad doctors and nutrition myths
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andras is back to talk about CICAPfest and Massimo Polidoro's book, then Jelena brings on the topic of the Illuminati before we move on to news items ...
TheESP - Ep. #121 - Dan Katz and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Swedish renowned Psychologist and skeptic, Dan Katz. Dan specializes in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and has a very cool book out whi...
TheESP - Ep. #120 - Homeopathy Awareness Week, anniversaries, awards and Fact-checking Day
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It was Homeopathy (and Chiropractic) Awareness Week, but wee had a lot of other stuff like anniversaries and awards to talk about on this episode, inc...
TheESP - Ep. #119 - Polio, Hungarian Election, and BS Statistics
08 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Brian Eggo sits in for Jelena as we talk about Hungarian elections, a medium who is shocked to discover that people someimes lie, HIV denie...
TheESP - Ep. #118 - Marko Kovic: Problems in the Skeptical Movement?
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk to Marko Kovic, social science researcher and former President of Skeptiker Schweiz. We discuss his recent blog post "Some problems ...
TheESP - Ep. #117 - Attack on our website, great minds, MMS, apitherapy and other quackeries
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are talking about how our website got attacked by Russian users, then touch on politics before we get on to discuss great minds like the...
TheESP - Ep. #116 - Diana Barbosa on the latest in Portugal
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Diana Barbosa is back to the show after two years to bring us up to date with skepticism related issues in Portugal. She talks about regulations regar...
TheESP - Ep. #115 - Books and app for skeptics, exorcism, vaccinations and INH gone international
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pontus is finally back and goes on a rant about Lawrence Krauss' reported behaviours then we turn towards the much happier topic of new books coming o...
TheESP - Ep. #114 - Ovidiu Covaciu and vaccination in Romania
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we had Ovidiu Covaciu back on the show to talk about his assessment of the situation in Romania regarding vaccinations and the spread of vac...
TheESP - Ep. #113 - Women in Science, measles epidemic, flat Earth and Susan Gerbic's adventures
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With guest host Claire Klingenberg sitting in for Pontus, who's on a skiing vacation, this episode brings you updates on ECSO, women in science and sk...
TheESP - Ep. #112 - Slovenian Skeptics
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Slovenian skeptics Maja, Nejc and Mark who run the monthly Ljubljana Skeptics in the Pub and the website skeptik.si. Hosted on A...
TheESP - Ep. #111 - Radio CICAP, Sitp & governments tackling measles, holocaust and burkas
11 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With this week's episode we bring you Sharon Hill's new book 'Scientifical Americans' and give you more information on Radio CICAP, the new podcast ou...
TheESP - Ep. #110 - Devil's Footprints, Irish Cancer and The Backfire Effect
03 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lots of news this week, the Devil's Footprints Legend and a new take on the Backfire Effect. Plus as usual a priest has been Really Wrong Hosted on Ac...
TheESP - Ep. #109 - Burzynski, measles, an anti-vaxxer in court and science in the Parliament
28 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we bring you some good news about Britt Hermes' crowd funding campaign run by the Australian Skeptics, a bit of an update on LSD and what a ...
TheESP - Ep. #108 - Britt Hermes and Eran Segev
17 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we bring you an interview with Britt Marie Hermes and Eran Segev regarding the lawsuit against Britt Marie. Britt Marie has been taken to co...
TheESP - Ep. #107 - Memories & predictions, LSD, disease outbreak prevention & animal brothels
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we make predictions regarding upcoming books by Edzard Ernst, talk about the future of fact-checking, discuss the works of Peter Boghosian, ...
TheESP - Ep. #106 - Brian Dunning & Science Friction
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are happy to bring you an interview with Brian Dunning, who's been the producer and host of the massively successful Skeptoid podcast and...
theESP - Ep #105 - Smallpox, fake news and the Taoiseach is a coward
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In our final episode for 2017 we look back at a skeptical year in Europe. We talk about smallpox, how measles continues to spread and how a prominent ...
TheESP - Ep. #104 - Pre-Holidays show with Gleb Tsipursky and David Fitzgerald
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On our pre-holidays show we welcome Jelena back after a bit of a hiatus, then Pontus corrects himself before we turn our skeptical ears towards fellow...
TheESP - Ep. #103 - Vaccinations, threats over glyphosate, the John Maddox Prize & the Nobel-disease
14 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We start with some corrections this week before we turn towards things like Nostradamus, vaccination rates in Romania, Peter Boghossian touring Europe...
TheESP Ep. #102 - More Superheroes!
07 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We could not possibly fit everything into epsiode #100, so here come some more interviews from those recordings: We talk to Andreas Kyriacou, Antonia ...
TheESP Ep. #101 - Belgian UFOs, the King of Germany and András goes into politics
30 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode:The brilliant Brian Eggo ("Eggman") joins us from Glasgow as guest host and tells all about the Skeptics in the Pub movement in the wo...
TheESP - Ep. #100 - Superheroes of Skepticism
23 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This is our 100th episode!!!To celebrate, we interviewed some of the superheroes of skepticism who have already been on the show and could accept our ...
TheESP - Ep. #099 - Prince Charles, homeopathy and onions in your ears
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about Massimo Polidoro’s new book, the latest Heinz Oberhummer Award and the origins of the Spanish skeptic movement, then move on...
TheESP - Ep. #098 - Rigvir scam, Exploding heads and the Higgs Boson
08 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We check out Skepticism in Latvia with an interview with Austra Muizniece who talks about the Rigvir scam. We xalso get two shorter interviews from th...
TheESP - Ep. #097
03 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, while DenkFest and Ratio are both on, we release two interviews that Andras recorded in Zürich when they stopped there during the About Ti...
TheESP - Ep. #096
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
First we give a massive shout-out to Richard Saunders for dedicating such a great chunk of the Skeptic Zone to us winning the Ockham Awards 2017. Then...
TheESP - Ep. #095 - QED 2017 Edition
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We go bonkers and enjoy QED 2017 in Manchester!www.theESP.euRüdiger Ludwig GWUP (German Skeptics) https://www.gwup.org/James Williams Email: ja...
TheESP - Ep. #094 - Eran Segev, Martin Mahner
12 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a post-congress show that features interviews with Eran Segev, president of Australian Skeptics Inc. and Martin Mahner, who runs the o...
TheESP - Ep. #093
07 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We have a guest on this show, Claire Klingenberg, who was the chief organiser of ECS 2017 and is the newly elected chair of ECSO.Than we talk about Ma...
TheESP - Ep. #092
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We are checking in from Wroclaw, where we attended the 17th European Skeptics Congress and recorded a show sitting in a hotel room together.You can li...
TheESP - Ep. #091
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Before we head out to the 17th European Skeptics Congress, we bring you news from Germany, Denmark, Italy and the UK, talk about Sigmun Freud and his ...
TheESP - Ep. #090 - Claire Klingenberg
11 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode:We tell you all about the fantastic 17th European Skeptics Congress coming up in Wroclaw in less than two weeks. Our guest is Claire K...
TheESP - Ep. #089
04 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week talk about the inspiration for Mel Gibson’s the Passion of the Christ, alternative treatments in Valencia, the Heilpraktiker system in Ger...
TheESP - Ep. #088 - Sue Blackmore
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we start our episode with Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic magazine, Deborah Hyde, who tells us about this year's Ockham Awards, the nominatio...
TheESP - Ep. #087
24 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're back with a regular episode and joined by Chris Higgins, who talks about SkeptiCamp Manchester. Charles Richet is our special mention ...
TheESP - Ep. #086 - Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
15 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In anticipation of the upcoming 17th European Skeptics Congress, this week we interview philosopher and cognitive scientist Konrad Talmont-Kaminski, w...
TheESP - Ep #085 feat. Leo Igwe
06 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Pontus and Jelena talks about news and have an interview with the humanist Leo Igwe, speaker at the upcoming European Skeptcis Congress in P...
TheESP - Ep. #084 - Holm Gero Hummler
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode our guest was Holm Gero Hümmler, nuclear physicist, management consultant and author of the book ‘Relativer Quantenquark’. He blo...
TheESP - Ep. #083
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Pontus and András are joined by Brian Eggo who sits in for Jelena while she's on a European motorbike trip.We talked about Karl Popper's ph...
TheESP - Ep. #082
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Unfortunately, due to all three of us hosts being otherwise engaged, we could not provide you with a show this week. But there are a few things we had...
TheESP - Ep. #081
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Jelena and Andras explore the world of skeptical conferences like CICAPFest, the European Skeptics Congress and Skeptics on the Fringe in Ed...
TheESP - Ep. #080 - Diego Fontanive
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode our guest was Diego Fontanive, who's the founder of the EOF Project (End of Fear) that aims to understand our epistemic acceptances an...
TheESP - Ep. #079
25 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about Swedish Skeptics treating their members to 15 tickets to the European Skeptics Congress and how we were interviewed by Skeptic...
TheESP - Ep. #078 - Luigi Garlaschelli
19 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is dedicated to our interview with Italian chemist, skeptic and paranormal investigator Luigi Garlaschelli.Andras also announces a...
TheESP - Ep. #077
11 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are coming back with our regular segments featuring topics like the 17th European Skeptics Congress, CICAPfest2017, James Randi's appeara...
TheESP - Ep. #076 - Susan Gerbic
04 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode is dedicated to our latest interview with Susan Gerbic, the Wikipediatrician, who's the leader of the international project called...
TheESP - Ep. #075
27 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode brings you a lot of news and interesting topics from the world of skepticism across Europe.Firstly, please, consider helping Hayle...
TheESP - Ep. #074 - Teddy Winroth
20 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On Episode 74 we interview Teddy Winroth, Swedish psychologist and criminologist, concerning a legal scandal regarding several murder cases in Sweden....
TheESP - Ep. #073
14 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week brings you a segment on Florence Nightingale, events across Europe and skeptical news including the latest success story of the Good Thinkin...
TheESP - Ep. #072 - Alan Henness
06 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On Episode 72 we interview Alan Henness, co-director of The Nightingale Collaboration, a UK-based group focusing on questionable claims in healthcare....
TheESP - Ep. #071
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week brings you March for Science, a correction from Bethania Palma regarding last week's interview, Catherine of Siena, more bad measles news in...
TheESP - Ep. #070 - Bethania Palma
21 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode is entirely dedicated to our interview with Snopes.com fact checker and journalist, Bethania Palma. We also talked about March f...
TheESP - Ep. #069
13 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are bringing you an episode packed with news, important events and topics from all over Europe:- Autism Acceptance Month- World Homeopath...
TheESP - Ep. #068 - Sofie Vanthournout
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The episode was almost entirely dedicated to our interview with the Director of Sense about Science EU, Sofie Vanthournout. We talked about their upco...
TheESP - Ep. #067
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talked about how fake news are a bit more complicated than that, Vaxxed still growing its audience, Rudolf Steiner and his anthroposophy ...
TheESP - Ep. #066 - Hayley Stevens
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interviewed award-winning blogger and paranormal investigator Hayley Stevens. We talked about becoming a skeptic after believing, how app...
TheESP - Ep. #065
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're back with the regular segments discussing lots of different topics ranging from Chickenpox, SpaceX, Newton and Fake News to what happe...
TheESP - Ep. #064 - Florent Martin
08 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interviewed Florent Martin, who's one of the founders of the French organisation Observatoire Zététique that investigates unusual claim...
TheESP - Ep. #063
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode we talk about the antivax movement and what we can do about it, then move on to talking about Derren Brown's work, whether fort...
TheESP - Ep. #062 - Michael Marshall and Fiona O'Leary
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is entirely dedicated to one topic, which is the latest wrongdoings of the antivaccination campaign, namely the screenings of the pseudo-...
TheESP - Ep. #061
14 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are talking about Andrew Wakefield and his campaign promoting Vaxxed, a pseudo-documentary, Galileo Galilei and his achievements, Hungari...
TheESP - Ep. #060 - Tomasz Witkowski
06 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we talk about the rise of the antivaccination movement in Europe and interview Polish psychologist, science writer and science educato...
TheESP - Ep. #059
30 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are talking about whether Nutella contains a known carcinogen, how the number of autism cases is not on the rise, vaccination against chi...
TheESP - Ep. #058 - Michael Motskin (Pint of Science)
23 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interviewed Michael Motskin, who's the co-founder and Managing Director of the international science festival, Pint of Science. Hosted on...
TheESP - Ep. #057
15 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With minor changes having taken effect in the segments of our podcast, here we are with a new episode on which we talked about an Italian psychic, Fac...
TheESP - Ep. #056 - Richard Saunders
09 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we interview Richard Saunders, international podcaster and skeptical activist from Australia. We also present some changes to the format of ...
TheESP - Ep. #055
02 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jelena and Pontus take over while András is off to Italy for the week. We talk about a planet that was not there, access to scientific journals, reli...
TheESP - Ep. #054 - Christmas 2016 edition
26 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This is a Christmas-themed episode with even a few events to talk about. Check it out! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
TheESP - Ep. #053
19 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This time we talk events, quacks, Christmas, the PISA test, how skeptics sometimes get it wrong, how widespread the belief in alternative medicine is ...
TheESP - Ep. #052
12 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This is a shorter episode with no long interview, but 3 shorter ones, along with the usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the com...
TheESP - Ep. #051
05 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This time our team is joined by foreign liaison of the Czech Skeptics Club Sisyfos, Claire Klingenberg who talks about the 17th European Skeptics Cong...
TheESP - Ep. #050 - Britt Hermes
29 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with former naturo...
The ESP - Ep. #049
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Skepsis, the Norwegian skeptical organisation revitalised, the status of h...
The ESP - Ep. #048 - Prof. Chris French
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with parapsychology...
The ESP - Ep. #047 - Edinburgh Skeptics+QED report
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including 1023 in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria and Germany, Edzard Ernst's new ...
The ESP - Ep. #046 - Simon Singh
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with science educat...
TheESP - Ep. #045 - QED special
24 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This show is a special QED & Skepticamp report combined with some of the usual segments featured on odd-numbered episodes. We talked about the highlig...
TheESP - Ep. #044 - Claus Larsen
17 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We recorded this show at QED - Question. Explore. Discover. in Manchester, UK. Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in ...
TheESP - Ep. #043
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Rosetta, ComCept officially instituted, ECSO website launched, The Good Th...
TheESP - Ep. #042 - Natalie Grams
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with ex homeopath N...
TheESP - Ep. #041
25 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Nessie, Bayer buying Monsanto, the European Skeptics Congress Facebook pag...
TheESP - Ep. #040 - Isil Arican
18 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with skeptical blog...
TheESP - Ep. #039
10 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Mother Theresa, Susan Gerbic and GSoW, John Needham and the theory of spon...
TheESP - Ep. #038 - Ovidiu Covaciu
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with skeptical blog...
TheESP - Ep. #037
26 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including cupping on Wikipedia, a poltergeist in Glasgow, a new tool for understandi...
TheESP - Ep. #036 - Fiona O'Leary
19 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with Fiona O'Leary,...
TheESP - Ep. #035
12 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including QED, cupping and ways to win at the Olympic Games, ART and the need to sup...
TheESP - Ep. #034 - Deborah Hyde
05 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with folklorist and...
TheESP - Ep. #033 - Penny Lane
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Pokémon Go, The Good Thinking Society vs the BBC, banners to indicate ret...
TheESP - Ep. #032 - Brian Eggo
29 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with Brian Eggo (Eg...
TheESP - Ep. #031
15 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Brexit, problems with science writing, British veterinarians to call for a...
TheESP - Ep. #030 - Linda Strand Lundberg
08 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with Linda Strand L...
TheESP - Ep. #029
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, you'll find news, events and interesting topics, including Brexit, Sense About Science to open EU office, NHS Liverpool to stop fundi...
TheESP - Ep. #028 - Claire Klingenberg
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a usual run-through of feedback and events across Europe in the coming week, this episode is dedicated to our interview with Claire Klingen...