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Jan 25, 2016

Before we celebrate our atavistic winter solstice festival of choice based on our cultural or family heritage (or go home and get pished as you might call it) we like to let our hair down, kick up our heels, open the mic and have a good party.

This episode we have a series of short talks for your listening pleasure from...


Jan 19, 2016

Media dons and science journalists are regularly publishing emotive and dramatic headlines about the purported negative effects of screentime on child development. In particular scaremongering links have been drawn between technology use by children and young people and the increasing rates of diagnosis of autism. In...


Jan 19, 2016

After our wonderful talk on autism and technology by Sue Fletcher-Watson, we decided to use the tools in our arsenal and handover the 10 Questions this week to our regular Heather Pentler. Heather works with adults with autism, so it seemed logical to have somebody who knows what they're talking about to interview...


Jan 13, 2016

After wowing us with his Skeptics in the Pub talk, we sat down with Paul Burns to fire our 10 (ish) Questions barrage at him. Paul talks more about science fraud and his science fiction writing with our very own David Frank.

Paul is a physics graduate, mass-spectrometer engineer and now a novelist (SF). He became...


Jan 13, 2016

We're back for 2016! Hopefully you had a great holiday, and you're ready for some skepticism. We have a couple of episodes for you, in the form of a great Skeptics in the Pub talk AND a 10 Questions interview afterwards with our speaker for this episode Paul Burns.

Why are so many otherwise intelligent people duped...