On Magonia Review, Lynn Picknett recommends, "almost unreservedly," a new book on vampires by Richard Sugg, entitled "The Real Vampires: Death, Terror and the Supernatural": http://pelicanist.blogspot.com/2019/07/c...mping.html
[i]"To a large extent, this book deglamourizes the vampire. Far
My main driving force for pushing so hard for magic is how much I hate reality. I can’t stand it, I don’t mind that existence is fundamentally pointless. I actually prefer it because I couldn’t care less about what any self proclaimed god had planned for me or anyone else, or any morality baked into
I've been finding myself surprised at just how much I've pulled away from rationality in favor of emotion. I find it hard to see an argument against doing so as I just don't see rationality having any sort of value anymore. I've noticed my ability to effectively talk in an evidence based debate has
Just made a small visit to Skeptiko for the first time in a long time. I don’t really recognize it’s intellectual roots anylonger. What happended with real sceptical debate on research articles, discussing power of statistical evidence in Ganzfeld experiments, and other paranormal research and new a
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