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TheESP - Ep. #219 - Wining about COVID-19 (cheers!)

TheESP – Ep. #219 – Wining about COVID-19 (cheers!)


This week Deborah Hyde joins us to bring you news and interesting topics to cover with us. We start by mentioning how VoF (Sweden), the GWUP (Germany), ComCept (Portugal) and ARP-SAPC (Spain) make ...
TheESP - Ep. #218 - All Pell Breaks Loose

TheESP – Ep. #218 – All Pell Breaks Loose


This week we bring you news and topics from all over Europe again. We start by talking about the unfortunate death (probably of Covid-19) of a board member of VoF. After that we're ...
TheESP - Ep. #217 - Online skepticism vs politics and miracles

TheESP – Ep. #217 – Online skepticism vs politics and miracles


ECSO President Claire Kraulik-Klingenberg joins us for this week's episode to bring you news and topics from all over the continent. Skeptics in the Pub Online is now a thing, popping up everywhere, ...
TheESP - Ep. #216 - Look WHO's talking

TheESP – Ep. #216 – Look WHO’s talking


This week an old friend of ours Brian Eggo from Glasgow Skeptics joins us to bring you a show packed with news, thoughts and curiousities.
We talk about how Skeptics in the Pub events ...
TheESP - Ep. #215 - Snippets for the time of quarantine

TheESP – Ep. #215 – Snippets for the time of quarantine


We are bringing you a selection of topics this week, some Corona-related and some aren't: In the meantime, QED organisers ask you to hold your travel arrengements at this time... The Vatican issues ...
TheESP - Ep. #214 - Don't Panic!

TheESP – Ep. #214 – Don’t Panic!


The three of us finally reunite for yet another show featuring an update on the COVID-19 situation and the GWuP cancelling SkepKon 2020. Then, after an interview with Annabel Bligh of the Anthill ...
TheESP - Ep. #213 - Double feature - Lithuanian Skeptics plus Parlia.com

TheESP – Ep. #213 – Double feature – Lithuanian Skeptics plus Parlia.com


This week we have no less than two separate interviews, both of which we’ve been looking forward to for some time. First, we talk to Šarūnas Bačiliūnas, the founder of the rather new ...
TheESP - Ep. #212 - Corona Corona Corona

TheESP – Ep. #212 – Corona Corona Corona


This week it cannot be helped that a lot of the episode is about different aspects on the Coronavirus and Covid-19. But we also want to remind everyone about our SkepKon raffle where ...
TheESP - Ep. #211 - Dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden

TheESP – Ep. #211 – Dinosaurs in the Garden of Eden


This week we talk about the John Maddox Prize, the BBC’s new show series about Greta Thunberg and about Darren Brown, born on this day in 1971. Pontus Pokes the Pope and finally ...
TheESP - Ep. #210 - Cranky Uncle vs Climate Change with John Cook

TheESP – Ep. #210 – Cranky Uncle vs Climate Change with John Cook


On this episode we interview Australian cognitive scientist and founder of the Skeptical Science website John Cook about his upcoming book 'Cranky Uncle vs Climate Change' that showcases typical climate science denial situations ...
TheESP - Ep. #209 - Heart-o-puncture™

TheESP – Ep. #209 – Heart-o-puncture™


This week before we get into the meat of the show, we talk Corona, Greta Thunberg and look forward to Adam Rutherford’s new book, “How to Argue with a Racist”. We also have ...
TheESP - Ep. #208 - The Nuclear Option with Iida Ruishalme

TheESP – Ep. #208 – The Nuclear Option with Iida Ruishalme


This week we interview Finnish activist Iida Ruishalme to talk about nuclear power and green energy. Iida is a biologist specialised in biomedical research, an environmentalist, a writer and a science communicator. She ...
TheESP - Ep. #207 - Coronavirus Misinformation

TheESP – Ep. #207 – Coronavirus Misinformation


This week we first get the record straight and correct our position on Ocean Cleanup - while we appreciate the sentiment, the whole idea is both damaging and unscientific. Two great Skeptical events ...
TheESP - Ep. #206 - From Peter’s Pence to Francis’ Pants

TheESP – Ep. #206 – From Peter’s Pence to Francis’ Pants


This week we note that the Swedish Skeptics’ article from last week concerning Thomas Erikson’s nonsense personality book “Surrounded by Idiots” has gotten some attention from other skeptics, among other things Pontus was ...
TheESP - Ep. #205 - Surrounded By Idiots

TheESP – Ep. #205 – Surrounded By Idiots


This week we note that at the time of recording, American-Swedish astronaut Jessica Meir is busy preparing and conducting the second ever all-female spacewalk. In history this week in 1964, Italian philosopher, author ...