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Welcome to the Edinburgh Skeptics Society podcast. We'll be bringing you talks from our guest speakers on a variety of topics in our Skeptics in the Pub podcast. There'll be talks from areas...
It's that time of year again! Only it isn't, and we're all (mostly) couped up in our homes and not having fun. But, thanks to the wonders of...
We're back! For one episode. Maybe more, we don't know. But we had a lot of interest in this talk from people who couldn't make it for whate...
Join us for a special episode of the podcast recorded at QEDCon 2018. QEDCon is the UK's best (only?) skeptical conference and each year a l...
Are you enjoying this year's Fringe? Why not step into our time machine and enjoy something you may have missed from last year's Fringe! Tra...
From the middle of last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe run we present an amuse bouche of acts from this year's Free Fringe that have a ske...
Theoretical zombiologist Dr. Smith joined us during the 2017 Fringe to explore the real science behind a potential zombieism outbreak. Zombi...
Join the current members of the Edinburgh Skeptics committee for the official unveiling of our Skeptics on the Fringe 2018 programme. This y...
Here's our interview with Dr. Paul Dimeo from the University of Stirling on drug testing in sport. In it we introduce Paul to skepticism, he...
Drug testing is a perennial topic in sports these days. High profile suspensions, accusations at world champions and a clamour for "clean co...
Note: Bit of mic trouble in this one - sorry! Quite some time after the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe our chair Mark Pentler sat down in his own liv...
Ever wondered what is the difference between Aspergers and autism but been too embarrassed to ask. There are many myths and misunderstanding...
Dr Katie Speckles spoke for us during the 2017 Fringe about Mathematical Life Hacks. It's a talk she's done for lots of SITP groups across t...
In part two of our "we're actually releasing an episode!" special we sit down with Tamasin Cave from Spinwatch to delve even deeper into the...
Sorry for the long break. We'll really try our best to get out this last few podcasts and then we'll probably take an even longer break... w...
Before her talk on the dangers of the Jehovah's Witnesses and cults in general our chair Mark Pentler sat down for a conversation with Lydia...
[A few tech issues on this one, folks. Sorry about the audio quality] Cults and Skepticism: How one ex Jehovah's Witness fell into the 'trap...
On a cold and raining late-December evening EdSkeptics chairperson Mark Pentler sat down with ex-Beagle 2 team member Dr Dean Harris to talk...
In the early 21st century, a group of British adventurers, scientists, engineers and explorers launched a mission to Mars. The mission was c...
Before her talk for us as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 Deborah Hyde sat down with Heather Pentler to talk about her love of va...
The Vampire has fascinated Western Europe from the early 1700s, but the tradition was a real part of Eastern European lives for a considerab...
Before her talk for us on the relationships that people have with the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Dr Louise Todd sat down with Heather Pentler...
Edit: had to take a few clips out of this one. Sorry! Often skeptics are charged with only concentrating on hard, physical sciences. Well, t...
Is Martin Corley a big fat liar? Will his knowledge of speech disfluency manage to trick our host Danny Robertson into accepting his answers...
How does the way you speak influence others' judgements? What is it about the way that someone speaks that makes you think they're lying? In...
Before her talk for us on the wonders and the dangers of plastic Dr. Madeleine Berg sat down with Claudia Schaffner to discuss her career an...
When plastic was invented, it was hailed as a wonder material, promising to completely transform our lives, which indeed it has. None of us...
Let it not be said that we don't pull out all the stop at Edinburgh Skeptics. All the way from Kansas we welcome Dr. Grant Ritchey. Before h...
Most of us are familiar with unproven and pseudo-scientific medical practices, but they are also prevalent in the dental field. From misinfo...
Before her talk for us on how to we sat down with Hayley Stevens to talk women in skepticism, smug people in skepticism, and her thoughts on...
A Skeptic's Guide to Ghost Hunting offers an entertaining, funny and at times scary introduction to the world of modern paranormal research....
With tales of moving plates, swirling magma and rabbits, Prof. Kathy Whaler from the University of Edinburgh tackles 10 Questions from Heath...
Magnetic compasses may have been used by the Chinese as early as the first century AD, and natural magnets were known to the Greeks in class...
As well as full-length talks we're bringing you interviews with our Fringe 2017 speakers to find out what makes them tick and to grill them...
Edit: You know when you've given the podcast gear to your vice-chair to do interviews at QED and you realise you needed it to record a welco...
In this episode of 10 Questions we sit down with Prof. Michael Dougan to ask some searching, evidence-based questions on Brexit. Are we real...
The UK's negotiations on withdrawal from the EU are now underway. And so Leave campaigners are now facing a form of accountability they have...
Edit: Bit low effort this one on my part. But next week... The Fringe! - Mark For another trip back to 2017's Edinburgh International Scienc...
Yes, it's us again. Remember us? We do podcasts and then take massive breaks to put on public festivals of science and rationalism. But we'r...
The morning after the birthday cake-infused Skeptics In The Pub before, Mark Pentler sat down with Paul Zenon to discuss the world of psychi...
Edit: A birthday surprise at the end of this talk. The picture attached should hopefully provide some context... From long-running TV series...
The podcast returns for one week only! (Probably. Hopefully a few more before the Fringe). Join Mark, Sean & Heather as they go through each...
In this interview with EdSkeptics Science Festival speaker Emma McClure we delve deeper into some of the issues with the reliance on certain...
We're back but also we never really went away or something. For this double episode of the podcast we have a talk and an interview with pris...
For the podcast this week we have some bonus content for you while we pin down some of our Science Festival speakers for interviews. We have...
(Sorry for the slightly dodgy audio... - Ed) Time reasons scuppered our chances of having a nice chat with our old friend, QI Elf, and ex-co...
The podcast returns! And we're back with a corker - the first of our run of talks under the banner of the Edinburgh International Science Fe...
For our final trip down the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe memory lane we're heading back to 2/3rds through the run for our Mid Fringe Binge! We alwa...
For our last talk from the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe we're having a look at how online and offline spaces work both for and against democracy co...
Many, many, many months after his talk, Claudia Schaffner sits down with Charles Cockell to talk in more detail about life throughout the un...
Will we find life elsewhere in the Universe and what are we really looking for? Why has this question suddenly become more interesting? In t...