She's a really interesting person. I find myself returning to her articles again and again.
Her disavowal of the paranormal also touches me, because she is so earnest and honest. But I think that what could be salvaged from all that research is something more interesting than the paranormal itself - understanding why people believe anything, and the mechanisms that create that belief. It's easy to understand why people believe things that are true, less easy when those things are shown (with difficulty, but conclusively) to be false.
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Date: 2005-11-13 06:11 pm (UTC)Her disavowal of the paranormal also touches me, because she is so earnest and honest. But I think that what could be salvaged from all that research is something more interesting than the paranormal itself - understanding why people believe anything, and the mechanisms that create that belief. It's easy to understand why people believe things that are true, less easy when those things are shown (with difficulty, but conclusively) to be false.