[2][3][4] The current president, András Gábor Pintér[5] who has been a board member of ECSO since 2017, is also the initiator, producer & co-host of the European Skeptics Podcast.
Also, the approach of this group was fairly different from that seen in other skeptical organisations around Europe and the world, lacking grassroots activism and focusing on high-ranking scholars, expressing their opinion to a wider audience.
Every month, lectures are held in the centre of Budapest, covering different topics ranging from philosophy to homeopathy and featuring many well-known experts on each individual field.
[12] The 3-day conference, held in Hotel Flamenco in Buda, featured many internationally recognised skeptics, including Willem Betz from SKEPP, British psychologist Chris French, Michael Heap from ASKE, paranormal investigator Joe Nickell from CSI, Massimo Polidoro from CICAP in Italy, Andy Wilson from the Merseyside Skeptics Society and science writer Simon Singh along with several Hungarian skeptics (recognised astronomer Iván Almár from SETI, TV host István Vágó, computational scientist George Kampis, physicist Gábor Szabó and linguist Klára Sándor).
[13] In 2011 the HSS joined the 10:23 Campaign, a worldwide challenge to raise awareness about the ineffectiveness of homeopathic remedies and the implausibility of the mechanisms they claim to work in the background of it.