Skeptics on the Fringe: Looking for Bigfoot in Edinburgh's Botanic Gardens

We’re delighted to welcome back Skeptics on the Fringe regular Charles Paxton who has talked to us previously about his research into sightings of Nessie and Gordon Rutter who co-ordinates the Edinburgh Fortean Society

This year they ask can we distinguish between truth and lies in accounts of cryptozoological entities? They went to Edinburgh’s Botanical Gardens to find out.

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Charles Paxton is an aquatic biologist with an interest in the hard science behind reports of sea monsters. He has published papers on amongst other things whales, guppies, catfishes, penguins, Antarctic seals and British freshwater fishes.

www.sea-monster.info (http://www.sea-monster.info/)

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Gordon Rutter is a writer, lecturer, photographer, organiser of the Edinburgh Fortean Society and friend to Edinburgh Skeptics.

gordonrutter.com (http://www.gordonrutter.com/)

edinburghforteansociety.org.uk (http://www.edinburghforteansociety.org.uk/)

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