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In general paranormal and Ufological fields have no clearing house or sanctioning body. It was mentioned on the Turn the Tables episode and Redfern on RM recently asked how do you go about policing a field that can't even prove what is being talked about. Trying to find theories to hold onto is difficult with so much infighting, self-destruction and total lack of long term, deep & structured, evolving thought about the phenomenon. Not that there aren't authors and researchers who don't have that kind of solid stance and patience in their work, but they are simply not always at the centre of the popular discussion.

Another way to look at things is to make a very clear divide: those writers who are part of the entertainment and believer clans and those who remain curious & uncertain, and whose probings are based upon those writers and thinkers who were equally solid & inventive in their investigations. If you can favor that kind of separation then you can happily ignore the Greers & Romaneks or Meiers and similar fabulists. Perhaps the inverse of this thread is even more valuable: who are the hardcore Ufological/Paranormal writers & investigators who exist in the solid centre of thinking about the impossibly strange?

<blockquote data-quote="Burnt State" data-source="post: 233060" data-attributes="member: 5332">In general paranormal and Ufological fields have no clearing house or sanctioning body. It was mentioned on the Turn the Tables episode and Redfern on RM recently asked how do you go about policing a field that can&#039;t even prove what is being talked about. Trying to find theories to hold onto is difficult with so much infighting, self-destruction and total lack of long term, deep &amp; structured, evolving thought about the phenomenon. Not that there aren&#039;t authors and researchers who don&#039;t have that kind of solid stance and patience in their work, but they are simply not always at the centre of the popular discussion.Another way to look at things is to make a very clear divide: those writers who are part of the entertainment and believer clans and those who remain curious &amp; uncertain, and whose probings are based upon those writers and thinkers who were equally solid &amp; inventive in their investigations. If you can favor that kind of separation then you can happily ignore the Greers &amp; Romaneks or Meiers and similar fabulists. Perhaps the inverse of this thread is even more valuable: who are the hardcore Ufological/Paranormal writers &amp; investigators who exist in the solid centre of thinking about the impossibly strange?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Burnt State, post: 233060, member: 5332"] In general paranormal and Ufological fields have no clearing house or sanctioning body. It was mentioned on the Turn the Tables episode and Redfern on RM recently asked how do you go about policing a field that can't even prove what is being talked about. Trying to find theories to hold onto is difficult with so much infighting, self-destruction and total lack of long term, deep & structured, evolving thought about the phenomenon. Not that there aren't authors and researchers who don't have that kind of solid stance and patience in their work, but they are simply not always at the centre of the popular discussion. Another way to look at things is to make a very clear divide: those writers who are part of the entertainment and believer clans and those who remain curious & uncertain, and whose probings are based upon those writers and thinkers who were equally solid & inventive in their investigations. If you can favor that kind of separation then you can happily ignore the Greers & Romaneks or Meiers and similar fabulists. Perhaps the inverse of this thread is even more valuable: who are the hardcore Ufological/Paranormal writers & investigators who exist in the solid centre of thinking about the impossibly strange? [/QUOTE]

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