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Post by Tamrin on Aug 2, 2008 8:59:18 GMT 10
I am a great admirer of Charles Fort but many "Forteans" have misread him. He was neither openly skeptical nor blindly credulous. Rather, he was scrupulously non-judgmental in his selection of accounts of anomalous phenomena. In doing so, he was perhaps more interested in the accounts themselves than in the phenomena they ostensibly described. Even (or especially) fraudulent accounts were collected, as he was fascinated as to why and under what circumstances people would purportedly relay some apparently anomalous story. He was surprised to find people accepting his reports at face value: " Fort himself, who did nothing to encourage any of this, found the idea hilarious."
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