Fringe 2012
Our award-winning 2012 season was sponsored by the Humanist Society Scotland and included talks and walks and presented a different event every day.
Click on the event picture for reviews and video
The Beginner's Guide to Psychic Trickery - How to be a Psychic Con-man
Saturday 4th August - The Southsider
Ash Pryce
Can Robots Be Conscious?
Sunday 5th Aug
Joanna Bryson
Alternative Medicine: Trick or Treatment?
Monday 6th Aug
Edzard Ernst
The Mayan Calendar and The End of the World
Tuesday 7th Aug
Ewan Leeming
Cock and Bull: Truth and Lies about Penis Size
Wednesday 8th Aug
Stephen Makin
Magic, Dragons and Dinosaur Saddles
Thursday 9th August
Peter Harrison
The Beginner's Guide to Psychic Trickery - How to be a Psychic Con-man
Friday 10th Aug - The Southsider
Ash Pryce
It's not what you believe it's why you believe it
Friday 10th Aug - The Jam House
A C Grayling
The Beginner's Guide to Psychic Trickery - How to Predict the Future
Saturday 11th August - The Southsider
Ash Pryce
How to Create Your Own Cult, The Scientology Way
Saturday 11th Aug - Banshee Labyrinth
Martin Poulter
The S & M Tour: Science and Medicine - Lock up your doctors!
Saturday 11th Aug - The Statue of David Hume
Walking Tour
Before there were Skeptics, there were Secularists
Sunday 12th Aug
Liz Lutgendorff
Sex Industry Myths, Olympic Rumours and Criminological Cock-ups
Monday 13th Aug
Belinda Brooks-Gordon
Adventures in Wonderland: A Personal Perspective
Saturday 4th August - Banshee Labyrinth
Richard Wiseman
(blogger Belle de Jour) - The Sex Myth
Tuesday 14th Aug
Brooke Magnanti
The most extraordinary stuff: magic, miracles and strange, strange things
Wednesday 15th Aug
Peter Lamont
Transferred Stigma: Psychiatric Drugs, Prejudice and the Placebo Response.
Thursday 16th Aug
Clio Bellenis
The vital statistics of the Loch Ness Monster
Friday 17th Aug - Banshee Labyrinth
Charles Paxton
Ghosts Busted: Skeptics on the Mile
Friday 17th Aug - The Statue of David Hume
Walking Tour
The Natural History of the European Werewolf
Saturday 18th Aug - Banshee Labyrinth
Deborah Hyde
The Beginner's Guide to Psychic Trickery - How to Predict the Future
Saturday 18th Aug - The Southsider
Ash Pryce
The Beginner’s Guide to Psychic Trickery – How to Talk to the Dead
Sunday 19th Aug - The Southsider
Ash Pryce
Gaming Myths and Media Monsters: Bad Science in Game Culture
Sunday 19th Aug - Banshee Labyrinth
Tracy King
Adventures in Wonderland: A Personal Perspective
Monday 20th Aug
Richard Wiseman
Science vs Religion in the Classroom
Tuesday 21st Aug
Alom Shaha
Autism: an Introduction to Treatments, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Wednesday 22nd Aug
Tannice Pendegrass
IQ for Dummies
Thursday 23rd Aug
Stuart Ritchie
How to start your own zombie apocalypse
Friday 24th Aug
Frank Swain
The Beginner’s Guide to Psychic Trickery – How to Talk to the Dead
Saturday 25th Aug - The Southsider