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Brian Eggo
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Brian Eggo has been running Glasgow Skeptics for over five years, hosting over a hundred events in that time. He has also spoken for a number of Skeptics groups and helped run SiTP organiser workshops at QED conference. His day job is training development and delivery for a tech company.
While Artemis was heading to the moon, moon landing deniers were busy doubling down
For the first time in decades, humanity is making its way back to the moon. As you might imagine, conspiracy theorists who deny the original moon landing are not taking this well.
Counting down our top 10 worst pseudoscience pop songs of all time
From Osbourne to Clapton, via Van Morrison and Ian Brown, we countdown the top tracks that brought pseudoscience to the pop charts
How and why to set up and run your own Skeptics in the Pub group: top 10 tips
Running a Skeptics in the Pub group can be enormously rewarding, and following these top 10 tips will help make yours a success!
Spending time outdoors is healthy and great – we don’t need to sell it as “forest bathing”!
Forest Bathing might be good for you... but so is general time spent outdoors in nature - we don't need to medicalise it and monetise it.
In modern-day Scotland, there should be no mandatory acts of worship in schools
Religious observance in school does more harm than good - we'd serve our children far better if we taught them about religion, without the indoctrination
Richard Saunders, on testing nearly 4,000 psychic predictions from the last two decades
Richard Saunders explains why he decided to wade through 20 years of psychic predictions, as part of the Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project
A night in The Drovers Inn: a special report from Scotland’s supposedly most haunted hotel
Is The Drovers Inn as spooky and as haunted as media reports and internet rumours would have you believe? Brian Eggo spent a night in the hotel, to find out
Psychic predictions for 2021 in review: peace talks from Donald Trump, and an end to Covid
2021 once again saw a slew of psychic predictions in the media - and a near-perfect record of misses and failures.