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Charles Hoy Fort 18741932 was an American writer and researcher intoanomalous phenomena. Jerome Clark writes that Fort was Essentially a satiristhugely skeptical of human beings especially scientists claims to ultimateknowledge. Clark describes Forts writing style as a distinctive blend ofmocking humor penetrating insight and calculated outrageousness. WriterColin Wilson describes Fort as a kind of patron saint of cranks and alsoargues that running through Forts work is the feeling that no matter howhonest scientists think they are they are still influenced by variousunconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity.Today the term Fortean or Forteana is used to describe various anomalousphenomena. «
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