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Spooky Science
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Skeptics of the supernatural will enjoy this humorous jaunt through the long history of scientific inquiry into paranormal and psychic phenomena. Life after death, spirit communication, the astral plane, reincarnation: on the relatively rare occasions when scientists have tried to apply their methods to the paranormal, they've often ended up embarrassed—fooled by obvious charlatans, deluded into making irrational and unsubstantiated claims, or frustrated in their attempt to find something that just isn’t there. John Grant—author of Discarded Science and Corrupted Science—investigates the pseudoscience of spooky stuff to fascinating and often hilarious effect.
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“Insanely bad formatting. Like, shoving an infobox in the middle of a sentence or 2 page spread in the middle of a paragraph, so you have to constantly flip back and forth. No wonder this thing was in the bargain bin; it's a PITA to read.<br/><br/>The entire thing reads like a very bland recall of cases from dozens of other books with as little as two or three sentences dedicated to some of them. You get a ton of disconnected stories one after the other with very little in the way of conclusion or original input by the author. So many pages may as well have been bullet points of random names to point at and go "so all these people were liars". OK? If you don't want to get into the details of something (or the details aren't interesting enough to include), why did you write a book about it? And don't get me started on the constant footnotes pointing to where you'll find elaboration on some random person's story at another point in the book, rather than just formatting it so each person gets their time and you move on. No, I'm not going to flip forward 50 pages to figure out why you think I should know this random name who happens to be connected to some other nobody. <br/><br/>Also this guy writes like he had a minimum source count to hit and didn't know how to use those sources in a meaningful way so he just kinda vomited fragments of them in the middle of a pre-existing essay. At the same time it feels incredibly padded like he was desperate to hit its already short page count (220, but with rather big spacing and lots of pictures) despite the fact that you could write thousands of pages on some of the topics tackled in here and still have interesting things to say. If this is how the author approaches all his books, no wonder he's published 80+ - he shits them out like a grifter shits out accounts of their past Atlantean lives.”
About John Grant
John Grant is the author of some 70 books and recipient of two Hugo Awards, the World Fantasy Award, the Locus Award, and a number of other international literary awards. He coedited with John Clute The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (Orbit/St Martin’s) and wrote in their entirety all three editions of The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney’s Animated Characters (Hyperion); both encyclopedias are standard reference works in their field. His A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Definitive Reference Guide, published by Limelight in Fall 2013, has the distinction of being the largest film noir encyclopedia ever written. Among his other recently published nonfiction books are the highly successful Discarded Science,Corrupted Science, and Bogus Science (all AAPPL/Sterling). He lives in NJ.
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