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Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort, first published in 1919. It deals with various types of anomalous phenomenon, including UFOs, strange falls of fish and other materials from the sky, odd weather patterns, the possible existence of giants and fairies, disappearances of people under strange circumstances, and many other phenomena.
Book of the Damned - Overview and Fort's thesis.
The title of the book referred to what he termed the "damned" d ...
The title of the book referred to what he termed the "damned" data - data which had been damned, or excluded, by modern science because of its not conforming to accepted guidelines. The way Fort sees it, mainstream scientists are trend followers who believe in what is accepted and popular, and never really look for a truth that may be contrary to what they believe. He also compares the close-mindedness of many scientists to that of religious fundamentalists, implying that the supposed "battle" between science and religion is just a smokescre ...
The first few chapters of the book deal largely with explaining Fort's thesis (as mentioned above). As a particular instance, he sights the strange glowing in the sky worldwide, which supposedly resulted due to the 1883 eruption of the volcano Krakatoa. Ford shows that such phenomenon had in fact preceded the eruption by several months, and suggests that the scientists, who had been puzzled by the phenomenon initially, used Krakatoa as a convenient explan ...
