This week we make predictions regarding upcoming books by Edzard Ernst, talk about the future of fact-checking, discuss the works of Peter Boghosian, remember the father of LSD Albert Hofmann, then go on to our news items including the wrong-doings of Paolo Macchiarini, the measles epidemic in Sweden, the latest Swedish Skeptic Awards, how Facebook could be used to prevent disease outbreaks, the ‘Turmeric story’, Psiram the German wiki of irrational believes turns 10, year review of Retraction Watch, a book review on Science Based Medicine, The Conservative Tribune spreading misinformation about migration and ‘aminal brothels’. We finish with an important quote from Galileo Galilei.

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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 is currently busy with lots of different projects in skepticism, including a book in the making and the crowdfunded project of showing how media usually distorts the opinions of experts they ask and doing a documentary about that. Find out more on http://sciencefriction.tv and please consider contributing!

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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 skeptic becomes head of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science. We also look into Facebook's new attempt to fight fake news, how peer review punishes poor research and how Christmas decorations being removed in Italy has nothing to do with muslims.Lastly the Taoiseach in Ireland failes to take a stand against Scientology, and for that he is Really Wrong.Segments:Intro; Greetings; The Week in Skepticism; News; Farewell; Outro; Outtakes

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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 skeptics Dr. Gleb Tsipursky and David Fitzgerald who talk about the Pro-Truth Pledge and why Jesus probably never existed, respectively. We then finish with possibly the most relevant song about Christmas, written and performed by George Hrab.Hope you'll enjoy the show. Happy holidays, everyone!

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We start with some corrections this week before we turn towards things like Nostradamus, vaccination rates in Romania, Peter Boghossian touring Europe, German Minister of Agriculture getting threats over glyphosate, the John Maddox Prize going to HPV vaccine promoter and what happens if Portugal loses net neutrality.Unfortunately, this week's Really Wrong goes to Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier for turning antivax...

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We could not possibly fit everything into epsiode #100, so here come some more interviews from those recordings: We talk to Andreas Kyriacou, Antonia de Oñate and João Monteiro! As always, make sure you check out our event page at http://theesp.eu/events_in_europe

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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 world.Then we dig into Belgian UFOs, dowsing in the UK, and how to combat fake news in Italian schools. Before we end, the "King of Germany" gets the Goldenes Bretts award, Macchiarini avoids prosecution and Italian anti-vaccers spread lies about a perfectly healthy child. Plus András goes all political.Check out Glasgow Skeptics at http://glasgowskeptics.com/ or send them an email at [email protected], make sure you check out our event page at http://theesp.eu/events_in_europe00:00:28 Greetings and comments00:10:12 This Week in Skepticism: The Belgian UFO wavehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_UFO_wavehttps://skeptoid.com/episodes/4538https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOBEPS00:21:06 News ItemsUK: Water firms use water diving to find leakshttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/21/uk-water-firms-admit-using-divining-rods-to-find-leaks-and-pipesItaly: Schools to start new program to turn students into "Fake News Hunters"https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/world/europe/italy-fake-news.htmlhttps://www.pri.org/stories/2017-10-31/italian-politician-wants-kids-become-fake-news-huntersAustria: The Austrian Skeptics award the Goldenes Bretts Award to the "King of Germany"http://2017.goldenesbrett.net/http://2017.goldenesbrett.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Pressemeldung-Favoriten.pdfSweden: Macchiarini not to be prosecutedhttp://retractionwatch.com/2017/10/12/swedish-prosecutor-wont-pursue-criminal-case-macchiarini/https://www.thelocal.it/20171012/sweden-italy-prosecutors-drop-manslaughter-probe-over-macchiarini-patients00:39:28 Really wrong: Italian anti-vaccers Corvelva and 'dead' baby picturehttps://donotlink.it/3GjGhttp://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2017/11/23/quand-une-campagne-anti-vaccin-fait-passer-un-enfant-vivant-et-vaccine-pour-un-enfant-mort_5219268_4355770.htmlhttp://www.issuesinmedicalethics.org/articles/infanrix-hexa-and-sudden-death-a-review-of-the-periodic-safety-update-reports-submitted-to-the-european-medicines-agency/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_infant_death_syndrome00:45:34 Radio spots00:47:39 Contact details, goodbye and more00:52:52 Quote:"Let us keep our minds open, by all means, as long as that means keeping our sense of perspective and seeking an understanding of the forces which mould the world. But don’t keep your minds so open that your brains fall out! There are still things in this world which are true and things which are false; acts which are right and acts which are wrong, even if there are statesmen who hide their designs under the cloak of high-sounding phrases."Walter Kotschnig, Austrian born educator, diplomat and professor at Smith College00:55:50 Outro00:57:05 Outtakes

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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 invitation to come back for a quick update.Our guests were Gábor Hraskó, who was our guest on episode #001, Natalie Grams whose new book is out, Michael Marshall who talked about some new achievements of the Good Thinking Society, Liubomir Baburov and what's planned for the future of Ratio, Sean Slater and what to expect from Skeptics on the Fringe in 2018, Massimo Polidoro and his new book along with news from CICAP and Susan Gerbic checks in together with Richard Saunders to finish the show with what was definitely the largest span of time zones in the history of our podcast.Thanks for bearing with us and please keep listening to The ESP as we intend to stay.

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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 to discuss Prince Charles who celebrated his birthday this week. On our news segment you’ll hear about the Advertising Standards Authority and their list of claims that chiropractors can actually make, the statement by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons condemning homeopathy while still leaving a few doors open for quackery, Spanish skeptics starting a new campaign based on consultations with the public, a new research indicating that homeopathy might be one of the most divisive pseudoscientific issues in Hungary theses days and how Hungarian authorities stopped the spreading of unregulated ragweed products and how glyphosate has been found not to be associated with cancer.All that while Anthroposophic Vidar Clinic gets this week’s Really Wrong price.

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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 the Ratio Conference in Bulgaria: One with Prof. Chris French who talks about his latest research on sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrom, and one with Dr Steven Goldfarb at the ATLAS Experiment at CERN and his part in the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

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