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© REVIEWS Yet, one significant but overlooked factor Rickard is the founder/co-editor of Fortean B oO oO K Ss which Viera Scheibner, PhD, and Maureen Times, the UK-based magazine which cov- Reviewed by Ruth P: lI Hickman have been exposing via NEXUS is __ ers all sorts of anomalous phenomena, often CUE fy) Ldn FELT the vaccination link in instances of both cot with a humorous bent. Such humour flows THE LYNCH-MOB SYNDROME death (SIDS) and SBS (2/05, 5/05, 7/06). through this book as a matter of necessity— by Ken Norman Another is the SIDS link with bacterial out- or there's “nothing to be gained by worrying The Portia Campaign, UK, 2000 gassings (identified by Dr Jim Sprott in about or wilfully rejecting aspects of our ISBN 0-932813-86-0 (224pp tpb) 6/06). These compelling connections might uman experience which can never be ; Price: £6.00 + p&h be overlooked in this book, but they are explained) . Yet we want to know the truth! Fi : TS: A : ignored by "experts" in the medical and judi- Carrying on in the tradition begun by pio- Available: UK—The Portia Campaign, ‘al dth Id. Itisi ine "Fortean" her Charles Fort The Croft, West Common, Bowness-on- cia systems aroun' Ae c wor - [tts impera- (1874-1932) “he juthors nal anes Por Solway, Cumbria CA7 5AG, tel/fax tive that the authorities , not only the pub- ( — ), t e authors analyse strange 01 6973 51820, e-mail ken , ortia@one- lic, become better informed before more phenomena as diverse as teleportation, ,. \_P needless deaths and convictions occur. alling fish and frogs, stigmata, levitation, tel net.uk, website ww portia.ofg ded crowd madness, fairy folk, alien encounters, The Pein ist Ken sOcndd ounce’ UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENA: spontaneous combustion, subterranean 4 ¢ Portia Campaign oU-odd years ago A "Rough Guide" Special realms, crop circles, spectral ships, simu- in the UK as a national charity to help OU gy UIE SP eCla ni lacra, weeping statues, anomalous creatures women in particular who may be wrongly by Bob Rickard and John Michell psychic animals and more, and they make — convicted or in trouble with the law because Rough Guides Ltd, UK, 2000 lively use of illustrations and photos. They of emotional or mental breakdown or ISBN 1-85828-589-5 (394pp tpb) also provide useful Fortean-type Internet through injustice. Many of the women Price: A$30.00; NZ$39.95; £12.99, sources at the back of the book. There's whose cases are summarised in Norman's US$27.99; C$19.95 more than enough here to convince you that book, The Lynch-Mob Syndrome, have been _ Available: Australia/UK/USA/Canada— this is a very weird world indeed. found guilty of murdering their children— Penguin Books; New Zealand—NEXUS crimes they swear they did not commit. Office, tel (09) 405 1963 It's a shocking indictment on our society f an anomalous event cannot be explained, when judges, scientific and medical witness- this doesn't mean it should be discounted. es, police prosecutors and jurors in effect And while authors John Michell and Bob conspire in a gradual, joint deterioriation of | Rickard are all for investigating strange phe- judgement to convict innocent people. To nomena, they warn that explanations are Norman, it's lynching in a new guise. merely "temporary products, coming and Mothers have been wrongfully imprisoned _ going in response to fashions". because of an unidentified genetic disposi- This Rough Guide special edition, tion or because their children died of toxic Unexplained Phenomena, is a compilation poisoning from a plastic swimming pool. based on new material and updates of two a) n ex p | a | al ed Various tragic deaths were deemed to be due __ earlier works from these authors: I Pi 1 to unusual cot death circumstances, shaken Phenomena: A Book of Wonders (1977) and —_ 1 baby syndrome (SBS) or other trauma, again Living Wonders (1982). Michell is a veteran resulting in a conviction for the mother or researcher/author on subjects such as carer (the Louise Woodward case is a high- archaeology, ancient science, sacred geome- profile example). try, landscape energies and so forth, while Yet, one significant but overlooked factor which Viera Scheibner, PhD, and Maureen Hickman have been exposing via NEXUS is the vaccination link in instances of both cot death (SIDS) and SBS (2/05, 5/05, 7/06). Another is the SIDS link with bacterial out- gassings (identified by Dr Jim Sprott in 6/06). These compelling connections might be overlooked in this book, but they are ignored by "experts" in the medical and judi- cial systems around the world. It is impera- tive that the "authorities", not only the pub- lic, become better informed before more needless deaths and convictions occur. Rickard is the founder/co-editor of Fortean Times, the UK-based magazine which cov- ers all sorts of anomalous phenomena, often with a humorous bent. Such humour flows through this book as a matter of necessity— or there's "nothing to be gained by worrying about or wilfully rejecting aspects of our juman experience which can never be explained". Yet we want to know the truth! Carrying on in the tradition begun by pio- neering "Fortean" researcher Charles Fort (1874-1932), the authors analyse strange phenomena as diverse as teleportation, alling fish and frogs, stigmata, levitation, crowd madness, fairy folk, alien encounters, spontaneous combustion, subterranean realms, crop circles, spectral ships, simu- lacra, weeping statues, anomalous creatures, psychic animals and more, and they make lively use of illustrations and photos. They also provide useful Fortean-type Internet sources at the back of the book. There's more than enough here to convince you that this is a very weird world indeed. NEXUS -71 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2001