Dana Richards (ed.) Dear Martin, Dear Marcello: Gardner and Truzzi on Skepticism. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2017. "Ben Azzai ... used to say: Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have … [Read more...]
The Man Who Was a “Zetetic Scholar” – Remembering Marcello Truzzi
I hadn't thought much about Marcello Truzzi until about two months ago, when I saw a post on the Facebook page of UFOlogist Isaac Koi noting that the full archive of Marcello's Zetetic Scholar is available on the Web, with the permission of his widow Pat Truzzi. I remembered Marcello from more than … [Read more...]
John Mack and Donna Bassett – UFO Abductions and Lawrence of Arabia
"I faked it," said the woman named Donna Bassett. "Women have been doing it for centuries." What Donna Bassett "faked" was her hypnotically evoked memory of having been abducted into a UFO. The victim of her fakery was the august John Mack--professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, … [Read more...]
