Brian Dunning, creator and producer of the Skeptoid http://skeptoid.com podcast, offers that “Goerman stands out as a rare mediator between the skeptics and the believers. While respectfully acknowledging the genuine strangeness of weird experiences, he does what few skeptics take the trouble to do: Encourages investigators with effective tools for doing good science and collecting real data that will stand up to scrutiny.”
David F. Godwin, FATE http://www.fatemag.com magazine’s Managing Editor, agrees. “In WEIRD HAPPENS, Robert Goerman has provided an invaluable and indispensable tool for the budding paranormal investigator. Would that many popular, published authors had read this book before writing anything! It would have raised the level of discourse in this field by a huge margin.”
Goerman looks to the future. “Ordinary people will continue to see extraordinary things that they cannot explain. Yesterday’s status quo of endlessly re-telling stale exaggerations of mysterious events and wishful contemplation of the paranormal has not increased any knowledge. The perpetual war between two extreme positions, between the blind denial of debunkers and the blind certainty of true believers, continues to distort, bias and censor the data. We need to change our strategy. Good research starts with factual information, evidence, and skeptical objectivity. Indeed, weird happens. What we do about it is entirely up to us.”
The WEIRD HAPPENS Investigator Handbook (ISBN 1-4241-8862-
Sound advice and closing comments from the likes of Jerome Clark, Bruce Maccabee, James Randi, Eugenia Macer-Story, Loren Coleman, Loy Lawhon, and Bernard Haisch only add to the merit of this guidebook.
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