Monthly Archives: March 2014

Banned Books Awareness: “Bare-Faced Messiah”

Scientologists have kept a book out of American stores for 27-years because it alleges that L. Ron Hubbard was a racist and a fantasist with a penchant for bizarre sexual rituals; but it is finally getting published. Written by British journalist Russell Miller, it was finished the year after...

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Censorship and Rape in the American Heartland

The residents of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, are no strangers to the practice of censorship. In 2006 they witnessed attempts to ban such works as Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Sonya Sones’ One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. Now the English...

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Across the Great Divide: Parapsychology’s Database Debacle

“Parapsychology’s Database Debacle” by R. Wolf Baldassarro It’s well-known that paranormal research isn’t taken seriously by mainstream scientists- after all there is a big difference between measuring phenomenon like earthquakes and hurricanes, which affect and are witnessed by hundreds of thousands, as opposed to telekinesis and ghosts sightings, which...

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