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Why don't Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator
In “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.
Together, these people clung to a common dream of applying critical thinking to suss out what’s real versus what’s not and to bring a veneer of respectability to the field. As a matter of practicality, we have to recognize that when scientists debunk and deride spiritual beliefs for fear of legitimizing them, what’s actually happening is they’re kicking tons of people out of the tent, and science itself is becoming delegitimized. Institutions have to hold space and free pathways that allow for an expression of these beliefs and turn our 80,000 working psychic mediums, 6,000 or more ghost-hunting groups, and one million alien abductees into stakeholders.
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