2025

Merry Christmas everyone! This is an episode unlike any other in the ESP history, hope you will enjoy it! See you again in 2026! Segments: Intro; Greetings; Fact checkers; Reason Tells; Farewell; Outro
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In this week's TWISH we take a look at the most skeptical saint, Doubting Thomas - not that we feel that he got everything right. In the news today we take a look ...

Rage bait is the Oxford Word of the Year and that cannot be a a good sign of the times we live in. In TWISH we acknowledge the genius of Ada Lovelace while ...

We discuss science communication by the ECDC re vaccinations and have some listener feedback about Dr Who, before with dive into TWISH which this week is about a pioneer of modern chemistry, Martin ...

We start by noting that COP30 was pretty disappointing although we are not too surprised. On another, more positive side, Michael Frass' terrible study claiming that homeopathy can help in cancer treatment finally ...

This week celebrates the launch of Dr Who way back in 1963, the longest running TV-show in history, and a special favourite for many skeptics. For the news we look into the following: ...

James Watson died, and brilliant as his contribution to science was, he also had some very problematic views on race and women. The Church of Scientology seems to be in decline even if ...

We're back home after QED and boy was it great! Last one, we know, but next year will see the European Skeptics Congress in Liverpool and it will largely be following the template ...

Note! You can find the video of this live recording here on our Youtube channel! (special thanks to the fantastic SitPO team for the video!) We were live from QED! Best time ever! ...

Warming up for QED, we dive directly in to TWISH and talk about - QED(!) and how this weekend will be an historic event as the last one of them all. We're going ...

To begin with with remember Jane Goodall and we mark that the Dutch Master Kackadoris Award has been awarded to the VU University of Amsterdam - serves them right! In TWISH we hear ...

It's official boys and girls, we made it to Episode 500! We celebrated this with a live recording and joining us from all over the world were a whole bunch of the best ...

Next week we'll livestream our 500th episode (but stick around for this one first!), and also we remind all non-UK QED participants to get their ETAs before they go to Manchester later this ...

Swedish glaciers are disappearing and in TWISH we hear about the triumph for science when discovering Neptune. After that, it's the news: RFK jr. (or little Bobby) claims that he has a 'cure ...

Make sure to check out András' Skeptics in the Pub Online talk next week on 25 September! In TWISH we meet Ötzi the Ice Man, and a mystery death from 5300 years ago ...