Things That Scare My Cat

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Why I Can't Read Any Farther in This Book

Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't by Steve Volk

Ran across this book and thought it would be interesting to see what sort of evidence and experiences would lead someone to investigate the paranormal and come to the conclusion that something about it was potentially real. (Note, in case you haven't figured it out from reading this blog, I'm rather a skeptic. :D)

My only regret is that I cannot hurl this book against the wall with great force, because it would damage my Kindle. Instead I shall content myself with deleting it while shouting "FOR SPARTAAAAAAA!!!" Here is one example: I'm not very far into it, and what do I find but something that's either a misunderstanding or a deliberate misstating. I have no idea if it's an honest misinterpretation of the correspondence involved, or if it's an actual, deliberate misstatement banking on the fact that his readers aren't going to know what the actual words used in the matter were. Because, I mean, really, who goes and checks on references in books?

Academic librarians, that's who. *cracks knuckles*

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