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Sean Slater is the Vice-chair of Edinburgh Skeptics and has been involved in organising several Skeptics on the Fringe runs. He has given talks for various groups on Mobile phones and 5G fears and has worked in the mobile industry for over 25 years.

https://www.edinburghskeptics.co.uk/

Alternative Medicine

The Nuremberg salt test: how homeopathy failed one of the earliest ever scientific trials

Sean Slater - 9th March 2023

One of the earliest ever randomised control trials took place in 1835, when skeptical physicians put the new-fangled homeopathy to the test

Conspiracy Theories

When you understand 5G technology, the conspiracy theories simply don’t add up

Sean Slater - 16th November 2020

Despite the scare stories, there is no evidence 5G technology causes Covid-19, cancers, or the myriad health scares attributed to it.

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New Year, New You, New Woo: 2025’s health and beauty ‘microtrends’

The abuse of the scientific method in so-called alternative medicine

Lemme Purr: the celebrity-backed wellness gummies trading on intimate insecurities

First do no harm? Treatments don’t need to be harmless, as long they do good

Moroccan Argan oil is an interesting traditional product, but it’s certainly no panacea

An overdose on placebo pills can cause adverse reactions… but not because of the nocebo effect

People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures

The anti-fluoridation movement is born of public health mistrust and misinformation

How genuine is cultural commentators’ ‘concern’ for OnlyFans model Lily Phillips?

Placebo surgery: why performing fake operations doesn’t actually help anyone

The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers

From the archive: Martian waterways – the story of the canals of Mars

The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread

From the archive: Paul Daniels, the Philosophical Prestidigitator

From the archive: Return To Silpho Moor – the Scarborough sky crash of 1957

Contorium: how a conspiracy narrative embraced a Turkish parody crystal

The Southport attack wasn’t ideologically motivated; the misinformation around it is

Understanding the origins of the 15-Minute City panic takes just 30 minutes

Left-wing conspiracy theories and ‘missing’ votes in the wake of Trump’s election win

Comparing misinformation to a virus is both accurate and useful in preventing its spread

Don’t Be A Dick: revisiting Phil Plait’s 2010 advice to skeptics

Project Blue Beam is finally happening… as long as you cherry pick very carefully

Alice Guo, the local Philippines town mayor accused of being a Chinese spy

Andrew Tate’s misogynistic BRUV political party is a joke we should take seriously

From the archive: when The Skeptic met an immortality cult, live on TV

An overdose on placebo pills can cause adverse reactions… but not because of the nocebo effect

The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers

People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures

From the archive: Analysing handwriting analysis and graphology

Placebo surgery: why performing fake operations doesn’t actually help anyone

Sean Slater

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Don’t Be A Dick: revisiting Phil Plait’s 2010 advice to skeptics

Project Blue Beam is finally happening… as long as you cherry pick very carefully

Alice Guo, the local Philippines town mayor accused of being a Chinese spy

Contorium: how a conspiracy narrative embraced a Turkish parody crystal

Andrew Tate’s misogynistic BRUV political party is a joke we should take seriously

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