Not only has science taken the paranormal out of déjà vu, they’ve made it boring. Read on as Ann Cleary tests the Gestalt familiarity hypothesis and shows her work in making the phenomenal more mundane. Of course taking away the fantastic and making it boring can be a Good Thingtm as illustrated by The Lessons Of The Recovered Memory Movement which are relevant again with right-wing nutjobs crying about crimes that aren’t happening except in their headcanon. While many readers aren’t familiar with the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s, Ethan Watters will bring you up to speed on the problems with memory, unreliable witnesses, leading questions, and how science played a role in arresting society’s descent into theocratic madness. (CS)
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