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okay this is a really important one for

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me because like as I was saying when I

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found it anthropology journal I wanted

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to focus on those kind of more high

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strangeness kinds of things and the 14

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approach provides a a nice kind of

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method it gives us a way of thinking

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about those without bracketing them out

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in the way that social sciences have

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tended to do in the past

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it just makes sure so in case people

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don't know quickly cover who charles

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fort was in he was a writer in the kind

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of towards the tail end of the 19th

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century and he wrote these four books

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which were basically collections of all

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of these accounts a strange unusual

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phenomena that he'd found documented in

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various scientific journals and

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newspapers and things so he gathered all

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of these things together and he called

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them his damned facts these things that

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science is so your video cut out so I'll

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use that opportunity to kind of

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interject and just weave in a couple

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examples I mean the raining frogs and

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this kind of stuff which we can't get

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around the fact that this is documented

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this is in the news that we can

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correlate it with other news events this

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seems to be an accurate reporting of

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what's going on at this time and they

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said there was a solar eclipse or was a

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solar eclipse they said these these

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hoards invaded and they invaded and

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right along beside that they have hey

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you know all these farmers out in the

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field observed the frogs you know fly

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from the soap why would we dismiss one

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account than another and that was kind

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of charles fort saying yeah why would we

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we can't let's just at least record

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these right you want it yeah yeah

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exactly

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he's just saying that there's all of

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this stuff that happens out in the world

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for our scientific models have actively

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ignored for the past you know 200 300

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odd years and he thinks that they've

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been pushed aside so that we know for

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whatever reason because they don't fit

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in with our established models or

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whatever and really what he wants us to

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do is challenge science with all of this

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damned data to put it on

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again and also to encourage us to think

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about things in slightly different ways

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so one of the things that I've taken

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most from charles fort is his idea of

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intermediate ism which is his kind of

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philosophical perspective on the nature

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of reality as soon as you could can you

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could call it his ontology really and he

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says that everything kind of exists on a

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spectrum or kind of like on a sliding

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scale between realness on the one hand

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and unreal Masson the other so that

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everything that exists in the world

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exists somewhere on this spectrum which

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basically means that anything that

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exists is not a hundred percent real and