Written by James Randi
Here is “ essentially“ a diatribe against the perceived fuddy-duddy convictions of shortsighted modern scientists. It was written by author Colin Bennett, who says that
“The problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.”
That rather sets the stage for what follows, since Bennett has freely interchanged imagination and fact, as you’ll see. He has also been beguiled by such wonders as the JFK Assassination Conspiracy, the Candy Jones/Long John Nebel/CIA* plot, Charles Fort, the Mothman Prophecies, “chemtrails,” and George Adamski. What follows is an exercise in naivety: