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research on strange phenomena
and experiences, curiosities,
prodigies and portents. Itwas
founded by Bob Rickard in 1973 to
continue the work of Charles Fort
(1874–1932).
Born of Dutch stock in Albany,
New York, Fort spent manyyears
researching scientific literature in
the NewYork Public Library and
the British Museum Library. He
marshalled his evidence and set
forth his philosophy inThe Book of
the Damned(1919),New Lands
(1923),Lo!(1931), andWild
Talents(1932).
He was sceptical of dogmatic
scientificexplanations, observing
how scientists argued according
to their own beliefsrather
than the rules of evidence
and that inconvenient data
were ignored, suppressed,
discredited orexplainedaway.
He criticised modern science for
its reductionism, its attempts to
define, divide and separate. Fort’s
dictum“One measures a circle
beginning anywhere”expresses
instead his philosophy of Continuityin which everything is in an
intermediate and transient state
betweenextremes.
He had ideas of the Universe-as-
organism and the transient nature
of all apparent phenomena, coined
the term ‘teleportation’, andwas
perhaps the first to speculate that
mysterious lights seen in the sky
might be craft from outer space.
However, he cut at thevery roots
of credulity: “I conceive of nothing,
in religion, science or philosophy,
that is more than the proper thing
to wear, for a while.”
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oddities – such collections have
abounded from Greece to China
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exploring the wild frontiers between
the known and the unknown.
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