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STATE OF DENIAL 26 Aug 2013 | 07:20 pm
Carl Nally and Dermot Butler. States of Denial: The Tuskar Rock Incident and Other Mysteries. Mercier Press, Cork, 2013. ‘Conspiracy theories, by their nature, cannot be conclusively disproven,’ says...
FIRST READ: THE BRITISH UFO PIONEERS 22 Aug 2013 | 04:05 pm
Harold T. Wilkins. Flying Saucers Uncensored. Arco, 1956. Compared with this wild book, the UFO books I had read before were pretty tame stuff. In some respects this is not really a coherent book at ...
TOKOLOSHE TERROR 18 Aug 2013 | 03:36 pm
S. D. Tucker. Terror of the Tokoloshe: The Untold Story of Southern Africa’s Hairy Invisible Ghost Rapist. CFZ Press, 2013. This is a really excellent study - though possibly needing a Parental Gudan...
PROPHECY FAILS 11 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Timothy Jenkins. Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists: A Re-reading of 'When Prophecy Fails'. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. This book is a re-examination of When Prophecy Fails, setting in the backgro...
KILLING US SOFTLY 9 Aug 2013 | 11:59 pm
Paul Offit. Killing Us Softly: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine. Fourth Estate, 2013. Dr Offit’s book covers much the same ground as those reviewed HERE. He is no more impressed with mu...
THE UNIVERSAL VAMPIRE 6 Aug 2013 | 04:25 pm
Barbara Brodman and James E. Doan. The Universal Vampire, Origins and Evolution of a Legend. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. Vampires are strange creatures. Nearly all of us, at least in ...
DARKEST DEVON 3 Aug 2013 | 07:15 pm
David Codd. Paranormal Devon. Amberley Publishing, 2013. Regional studies of the unexplained are always welcome, and this particular one is based both upon personal investigations carried out by the ...
POINTS OF CONTACT 30 Jul 2013 | 09:22 pm
Aaron John Gulyas. Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s. McFarland, 2013. For many years now it has been an axiom of ‘Scientific Ufologists’ that the cont...
THE NEW SKEPTICS 28 Jul 2013 | 06:18 pm
Jim Baggott. Farewell to Reality. Constable, 2013. Alexander Unzicker and Sheilla Jones. Bankrupting Physics: How Today’s Top Scientists are Gambling Away Their Credibility. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013....
GRAIL LITE 23 Jul 2013 | 08:57 pm
Juliette Wood, The Holy Grail: History and Legend, University of Wales Press, 2012. It was a refreshing coincidence being asked to review this book immediately after those by Justin E. Griffin and Ju...
