Steuart Campbell

Steuart Campbell (born 1937) is an Edinburgh-based sceptic and investigative science writer born in Birmingham. Campbell trained as an architect and worked as one until the mid-1970s. He then gained a degree in mathematics and science from the Open University (BA, 1983).

Steuart Campbell
Photo taken 2019

He has written books on science and pseudoscience-related matters:

• The Loch Ness Monster: The Evidence (A critical evaluation of the principal evidence for the existence of the most famous lake-monster in the world) 1986 The Aquarian Press (Thorsons Publishing Group) Wellingborough: ISBN 0850304512; Revised ed. 1991 Aberdeen University Press (Macmillan Pergamon Publishing Corporation) Aberdeen: ISBN 1573921785; 1996 Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh: ISBN 1874744610; 1997 (without subtitle); Prometheus Books, Amhurst: ISBN 1573921785; 2002 Birlinn Ltd, Edinburgh 1997: ISBN 1841581984). Debunking belief in the Loch Ness Monster by analysis of all the main evidence, including the various photographs, eye-witness reports and sonar evidence.

• The UFO Mystery Solved 1994 Explicit Books, Edinburgh: ISBN 0952151200. A critical examination of UFO reports and their explanation in terms of meteorological and astronomical phenomena;
• The Rise and Fall of Jesus (The ultimate explanation for the origin of Christianity) with a foreword by Prof. James Thrower 1996 Explicit Books, Edinburgh: ISBN 0952151219; 2009 Revised and updated ed. WPS (WritersPrintShop): ISBN 1904623735; 2019 Revised 3rd ed. (A Complete Explanation for the Life of Jesus and the Origin of Christianity) Tectum Verlag (Nomos Publishing Company), Marburg: ISBN 9783828843462 (print), ISBN 9783828873278 (ePDF). Examines the Jesus myth and the origins of Christianity and suggests that Jesus wanted to be crucified.

• Chinook Crash (The crash of RAF Chinook helicopter ZD576 on the Mull of Kintyre) 2004 Pen & Sword Aviation (Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley) ISBN 1844150747 (print) ISBN 9781473803480 (ebook). An examination of and an explanation for the fatal crash on 2 June 1994.

Campbell is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Edinburgh Secular Society; he is also the author of over 100 articles on superstitions (religious and non-religious), language problems, genealogy, scientific beliefs, optical phenomena (astronomical and meteorological), electricity generation and global warming.