Parascientific Revolutions: The Science and Culture of the Paranormal by Derek Lee

The European Enlightenment imagined “progress” as a rising highway with science laying the paving stones. At the same time, millions of people, including some scientists, have opted for other roads, including byways rejected by scientific convention. Derek Lee’s Parascientific Revolutions is an often-brilliant examination of rejected ideas that continue to circulate, sometimes seizing the high ground of popular imagination. The persistence of those ideas often comes from the stubborn resistance of heretics within the science academies but also through pop culture, especially science fiction. Lee deploys “parascience” to describe forbidden ideas that have coalesced within a scientific context.

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