The European Skeptics Podcast

Plus, we also have a longer interview w the winner of this year’s #Ockham Award, Dr @FlintDibble! Enjoy! #QEDcon #SkeptiCamp #Manchester #skepticism #pseudoarchaeology

Ep. #451 – Dr Flint Dibble & more! We tried capturing the marvelous feeling of meeting fantastic people @QEDcon: meet the people behind @SITP: @CBellenis, @igstroev & @davideglass, leaders of @ComceptOrg: @diraquel & @JFLMonteiro & your go-to #ghost investigator @Hayleystevens!

@AukeHoekstra @CrisisReports We would also love to have you for an interview on The European Skeptics Podcast.

Loved my conversation with @CrisisReports I'm more of a techno optimist and she's more of a critical social thinker: two very different "bubbles". So we disagreed a lot, but always with mutual respect and even fondness We need more of these bridges between bubbles Thx Rachel!

Elon Musk beats Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett to Rusty Razor pseudoscience award Twitter owner Elon Musk has beaten Dragon's Den star Steven Bartlett to the Rusty Razor award for worst pseudoscience of 2024 skeptic.org.uk/2024/10/elon-m…

Congratulations to @elonmusk on getting this year’s #RustyRazor award at @QEDcon for spreading the most dangerous #misinformation & #pseudoscience!

@sbasegmez @ClaireAccendit @BrianEggo Thank you! And many thanks for coming to the recording! 😊

Live @espodcast_eu on the stage with lovely @ClaireAccendit and @BrianEggo Congratulations for the episode 450!

It’s #QEDcon time, everyone! Have you made your choices yet? Such a line-up. It’ll be a fun weekend of #science & #skepticism. Don’t forget we have the live recording of our 450th episode today! Come join us at 11:10 in the Senate Suite on 2nd floor! qedcon.org/schedule

Though we’re in complete #QEDcon mode now, we have ep #449 for U2 listen to over the weekend. If you’re also here @QEDcon, you’re excused for putting it off for now 😉, but then why don’t you come & join our live recording tomorrow at 11:10! Enjoy! theesp.eu/podcast_archiv…

EP#448 - SUSAN GERBIC This week @skepman interviews the “Fairy Godmother” of the show, leader of the About Time Project & Guerrilla #Skepticism on #Wikipedia (@GSoW_team), @SusanGerbic. We talk Mark Edward’s legacy, exposing psychics & how to start a #SkeptiCamp in your area.

… - #Climate communication works! - #Turinshroud reloaded The Really Wrong Award goes to Fleur Agema, Dutch Minister of Health and Deputy Prime Minister, who refuses to donate #vaccines against #mpox. We also have a Word of the Week in both Lithuanian and Russian. Enjoy!

Ep. #443 – Scammers in the Moonlight theesp.eu/podcast_archiv… TWISH: August Kekulé, the French chemist who redefined his discipline. NEWS: - Real vs. fake #Tarot readers on social media - #ImaneKhelif files lawsuit over cyber-harassment, names #JKRowling & #ElonMusk

Ep. #442 – Algimantas Kvecys theesp.eu/podcast_archiv… We start the ep with last week’s TWISH about the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, adding a bit more details. Then we have a great chat with Algimantas Kvecys chair of @SDraugija68278 (Society of Lithuanian Skeptics.) Enjoy!

@AukeHoekstra We would really like you to come on our show and talk about all that and every misconception you can think of related to EVs. The ESP is dedicated to science and skepticism with a European scope. If you’re interested, please send us a PM or an email to info@theesp.eu Thanks!

I was right about people underestimating solar (x.com/AukeHoekstra/s…) and EVs, and I'm 100% convinced the underestimation of batteries is even more extreme. (Notice that BNEF can't bring itself to project continued exponential growth of batteries.)

If you’re thinking about donating to the #QEDcon fund, or have already done so, you get to share this week’s Really Right Award. You will have helped getting some people to join, who otherwise would not have had the possibility to do so.

The NEWS Part 2: INTL: Pointless vitamin infusions on the rise while there is a worldwide shortage of IV fluids UK: Humour is allowed to be factual or wrong, but shouldn’t hurt people

TheESP – Ep. #441 – Choose Your Parents Wisely theesp.eu/podcast_archiv… @QEDcon is getting closer & you can volunteer to help creating the skeptical event of the year, while making new friends. Also, find out what part of a blue #supermoon” is nonsense & what is real astronomy…

The Baden-Württemberg Medical Association in Germany has taken the long-overdue, but very welcome decision to exclude homeopathy from any medical training going forward, and for that they receive this weeks award for being Really Right.

News: DE: New book about long #COVID & ME/CFS by Natalie Grams SW: More #fertility nonsense UK: The role of #misinformation in the riots post #Southport stabbings UK: Practitioner of ‘slapping therapy’ guilty of manslaughter INTL: Reducing the number of #AI ‘hallucinations’

EP.#439 OUT - ‘LEAKEY’ SCIENCE theesp.eu/podcast_archiv… We start by remembering Mark Edward, who’s leaving behind a great legacy as a #skeptic, #mentalist, author & investigator of #paranormal claims & exposer of #psychic frauds, sometimes alongside @SusanGerbic. He’ll be missed.