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