The Edinburgh Skeptics Society was founded in 2009 to promote reason, science and critical thinking in Edinburgh and Scotland.
We are a non-profit association dedicated to providing events, talks and performances aimed at the skeptical community of Edinburgh, throughout the year and during the Science and International Arts Festivals. We are proud to draw on the tradition of critical thinking and skepticism embodied by Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment.
We are run on a shoe-string by volunteers whose critical thinking skills are drawn into question by the amount of unpaid spare time they put in.
We host a variety of regular events ranging from the family-friendly Skeptical Days Out to our monthly Skeptics in the Pub talks and socials. We are happy to co-present one-off events of interest to Skeptics. We co-ordinate a full programme of talks and shows during the Edinburgh Festival and the Edinburgh Science Festival.
We also active online: see our Resources page for links to blogs and websites.
If you are going to insist in misspelling scepticism with a K, please try to be consistent when justifying its use in “With a K” by capitalisation! This is the second page I’ve seen an both have a word with a lower case k.
This is either wilful cultural vandalism or the sign of someone mesmerised by another culture.
Hi Michael
Thanks for your comments. I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking us to do; I’ve read your post twice, and it seems that you’re asking us to capitalise the K in in sKepticism. This seems so unlikely that I’m pretty sure it’s not the case.
Any typos are honest mistakes made by people working collaboratively and working too fast. If you point ‘em out, we’ll fix ‘em.
The thing that scrapes on my nerves is the lack of an apostrophe in Skeptics’ Society. But we are probably better off without it, because we’d end up saying we’ve only got one Skeptic.
Kind regards
Ben Makin – Ed Skeptics online
Sorry you are right – I wrote it rather quickly and forgot to make sense
I meant capital S when spelling with a k of course. I was just focusing on the k too much…
Hi
I’ve updated the “With a K” page, and re-written it slightly. I hope it’s more consistent now than it was.
While we’re talking about the website, I’m sorry about any inconsitencies in how our events are posted. A lot depends on who posts each event; different members of the group have different amounts of time and attention to detail.
All the best
Ben
I know this if off topic but I’m looking into starting my own blog and was wondering what all is needed to get set up? I’m assuming having
a blog like yours would cost a pretty penny? I’m not very web smart so I’m not 100% certain.
Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you