This week brings you a segment on Florence Nightingale, events across Europe and skeptical news including the latest success story of the Good Thinking Society with getting eBay to remove a dangerous product (Black Salve) from their listings, climate targets not being taken seriously, annual prizes awarded by ARP-SAPC in Spain, Spanish skeptical events mounting to 600 since 2010, the UK foreign secretary making false claims, German podcast award for Schlaulicht and a new skeptical podcast on the market in Germany called Nachgefragt. Also, Metro in Sweden comes out with a demonstrative issue intentionally full of fake news, Hungarian family and their naturopath sentenced to prison for killing an infant out of carelessness, Stephen Fry and his blasphemy case in Ireland and Fiona O’Leary fighting against antivaccination nonsense in the form of a demonstration at the screening of Vaxxed.

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On Episode 72 we interview Alan Henness, co-director of The Nightingale Collaboration, a UK-based group focusing on questionable claims in healthcare.

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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 Europe, BBC and homeopathy and new fact checking tools on Google. On top of that you will also be shocked to find that The Daily Fail is spreading that deliberate tape worm infections can treat autism…

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This week’s episode is entirely dedicated to our interview with Snopes.com fact checker and journalist, Bethania Palma. We also talked about March for Science across Europe. Please, check out our calendar for more information on those and other events.

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This week we are bringing you an episode packed with news, important events and topics from all over Europe:- Autism Acceptance Month- World Homeopathy Awareness Week- Poppy seeds causing false positive drug tests- Public opinion and vaccination- The latest on the screenings of the movie Vaxxed in Germany and Ireland- ComCept’s Flying Unicorn Awards- Nominations open for the John Maddox Prize- QED - Question. Explore. Discover. announced- Nominations open for the British Podcast Awards- Call for speakers at the 17th European Skeptics Congress in Poland- Our calendar of skeptic events- An update on the NHS vs homeopathy- Prince Anne backing GM crops- BBC to uphold the Good Thinking Society’s complaint against the Look North report on chiropractic for animals- An update on the UK Charity Commission’s latest actions- A researcher banned from seeking funding after misconduct in Germany- The German government passes legislation about punishing social media firms for not removing hate speech- New fronts in the war against pseudoscience in Medicine in Spain- El Esceptico issue 46 is out commemorating Carl Sagan, who’s been dead for 20 years now…- Swiss skeptics open research department- The current state of measles and the effect of the anti-vaccination movement in countries across Europe- How Swedes handle an attack on their capital

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The episode was almost entirely dedicated to our interview with the Director of Sense about Science EU, Sofie Vanthournout. We talked about their upcoming project, Evidence Matters EU, the expansion of the Ask For Evidence campaign to European countries, how to elevate public debate about scientific issues to influence legislation, building a European network and a lot more.

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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 and schools, Massimo Polidoro having a new book out, ComCept's Flying Unicorn Award, the Carl Sagan Journalism Prize offered by GWUP, the UK's Charity Commission's consultations about the charitable status of organisations promoting pseudoscience, the death of the last patient of Paolo Macchiarini's.Finally, the British Chiropractic Association wins the Really Wrong price for still "happily promoting bogus treatments".

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This week we interviewed award-winning blogger and paranormal investigator Hayley Stevens. We talked about becoming a skeptic after believing, how applying the right way of thinking and the best methods can help us understand how people think, what she thinks of Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia and what the nicest approach to debating people might be.

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This week we're back with the regular segments discussing lots of different topics ranging from Chickenpox, SpaceX, Newton and Fake News to what happened #LastNightInSweden after all, how Bild is fighting falsehoods, March for Science across the world, Global Warming denial, Paleo diet, Metro in Sweden, What Doctor's Don't Tell You and more.

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This week we interviewed Florent Martin, who's one of the founders of the French organisation Observatoire Zététique that investigates unusual claims in Grenoble and all over France.

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