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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.

The Oceangate tragedy has brought some of society’s ghouls to the surface

Tragedies like the implosion of the Oceangate Titan submersible inevitably attract a slew of people trying to exploit them for their own agenda

Ten top times skepticism made an unexpected appearance in pop culture

Few things can match the enjoyment of seeing your favourite show take an unexpected turn towards skepticism. Here's ten of our favourite examples.

The 10-step guide to sense-checking conspiracy theory claims (take note, Toby Young)

With so much misinformation around (including on websites who think they're being sceptical), it's important to sense-check claims you find online

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
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