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How Sally Met Infamy: Psychic Sally Morgan Caught: or was she?
OK, a very quick post. I don’t know anything about stage psychic Sally Morgan, apart from having once seen her name on a poster. I looked her up on Wikipedia, and there was not much to say: she has received … Continue reading
Psychic News closes down after 78 years — but why?
I am aware of the byzantine politics of the Spiritualist movement, and the complex theological, administrative and personality clashes which sometimes (always?) arise. In this the Spiritualist National Union is much like any other church, or much like any other organisation, be it poetry club or gardening society.
In those two factors, economic issues and doubtless some political manoeuvring we see the immediate reasons for the decline of Psychic News (a newspaper that as long term reader of this blog may recall once featured me on the front page!). It is a shame, but possibly to be expected. And yet… Continue reading
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My Problem with the Paranormal!
OK, so tonight I’m going to talk about my problem with the paranormal. And here we have a problem straight away – what is the Paranormal? The term is used so loosely as to be almost meaningless. Continue reading
Posted in Debunking myths, Paranormal
Tagged Arthur C Clarke, Arthur C Clarkes Mysterious World, defining the paranormal, defining the perinormal, Fortean, Forteana, ghosthunter, Giant Squid, James Randi, JREF, Most Haunted, Paranormal, paranormal meaningless term?, Paranormal TV, parasychology, perinormal, psychical research, Richard Dawkins, woo
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"And sometimes he's so nameless" 
Where Is The Effective Sceptical Activism Really Happening?
Skeptics are a funny lot. I have jokingly in the past suggested that modern organized Skepticism follows on from what Charismatic Christianity was in the mid 80’s, Wicca was in the late 80’s/early 90’s and ufology was in the 90’s … Continue reading →