Hans Thirring

New on Youtube: Poltergeist – the Finale!

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The third and final video in our series on poltergeist phenomena and hauntings in the history of science (and this time also medicine) has just gone live. This episode is on the longer side, as we will dwell quite a bit on twentieth-century continental Europe. Once again, you are going to encounter several figures not … Read more

Hitler’s Monsters? A Look at German “Scientific Occultism” and Fascism

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In case you haven’t noticed, American and British politics are in utter shambles. A climate science-denying President of the supposedly United States gets away with racial slurs and refusals to renounce sympathies with Neo-Nazis, and while I don’t think it’s fair to say that everybody who voted for Brexit is a racist, correlations between racial … Read more