Library conference raises eyebrows
A series of sessions on the paranormal is raising eyebrows in Rivière-des-Prairies where some think public library space shouldn’t be given over to pseudoscience.
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david100 14:48 on 2019-01-16 Permalink
People shouldn’t judge this stuff so harshly, it’s all in good fun. When I was a kid, I loved stuff like this and would have been front and center here. And there’s a great tradition in Quebec of this stuff – the Royal Canadian Occult Society scene in The Scarlet Claw, the greatest five minutes in the greatest film Quebec-set film until Hitchcock did I Confess.
Chris 01:09 on 2019-01-17 Permalink
Aren’t libraries full of fiction books? So can’t there be fiction conferences too?
Kate 09:53 on 2019-01-17 Permalink
Chris, if you can’t understand that library books are categorized to frame science as fact and fiction as fiction, I’m not sure I can help you. This is all about presentation and framing. If it’s “good fun” it won’t be framed as serious alternative fact, but I don’t know enough about the program they’re offering to theorize.