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has been described as Fort's "most accessible, most readable book". It is divided into two sections: the first on the above phenomena; the second, on his attacks on the contemporary astronomy. The reason for this is that Fort had been working on a follow-up to
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Fort believed that all of these anomalous phenomena can be explained by his teleportation theory—though he later apparently retracts this theory to an extent in his final book,
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and various out of place animals, animal mutilations and attacks on people, strange swarming of balls, the emergence of various strange people (the famous cases of
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activity, etc., and incorporates these strange phenomena into his new theory on teleportation, saying that teleportation from the
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and the observations involved, and pointed out seeming contradictions and anomalies in scientists' statements to the press.
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again in this book, and writes extensively on a number of other topics which he claims can be explained by teleportation:
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and the claim that these could be confirmed by a transit of the Sun. He was sceptical of the accuracy of the
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into his beliefs on teleportation. He would later expand this theory to include purported mental and
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phenomenon). He writes a chapter on the winter of 1904–1905 in Britain, when a widespread religious
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that states a Knowledge editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic.
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in England and Wales coincided with numerous other strange occurrences: the appearances of
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The book was re-released in a paperback version in the 1990s, and is also included in
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for this particular book early on—that some sort of mysterious force, known as the "
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Of Fort's four books, this volume deals most frequently and scathingly with
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was pubiished in February 1931. It received positive reviews in both the
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The Silences of Science: Gaps and Pauses in the Communication of Science
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It takes its derisive title from what he regarded as the tendency of
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can explain these phenomena. Fort also briefly touches on
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events and discoveries. Fort portrays them as quack
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Charles Hoy Fort
Victor Gollancz Ltd.
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1-59605-028-4
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58975446
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New Lands

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