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Fringe-ology

How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable--and Couldn't
Aug 06, 2014JCLJoF rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Steve Volk takes the difficult - and, I think, admirable - position that we just do not have all the answers yet. Human psychology is such that we don't sit too comfortably with uncertainty, but Volk writes that some of our greatest mistakes have come from jumping on one bandwagon or another just for the sake of feeling more secure. Volk discusses the huge number of "paranormal" (which he is quick to point out technically means "a thing we haven't discovered the scientific reason for" and does not necessarily mean something "supernatural") occurrences across historical time and all cultures and places. Super interesting as a study of the paranormal, human psychology, or possibly... both.