thomas

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes” (Walt Whitman)

What are some of your contradictions, anon?

PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Aviator, diver, ETH maxi, nexialist | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

I’ll start: I’m a cold rationalist, a skeptic at heart, a party pooper for the mystics. I believe that reality is what physics is attempting to probe. I must see data and evidence. James Randi was a hero of mine.

And yet, so were Fox Mulder & Charles Fort, who “wanted to believe” in the supernatural & never gave up the search.  My formative reads have not only included fiction writers such as Poe, Maupassant, Barjavel, Lovecraft; but also “The Morning of the Magicians” which was a genre-defining supernatural exploration

Suggested reading:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/the-unbelievable-skepticism-of-the-amazing-randi.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Morning_of_the_Magicians