LINK A brief examination of the science behind ghost hunting | Salon.com

Ha, ha, ha.Tis the season.

Not a bad piece.

Near the end of the link:

The implications of using pseudoscience to detect ghosts are much bigger than simply figuring out what happens in the afterlife. As scientist Carl Sagan famously wrote in his 1995 book "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark," humanity suffers overall when people collectively lose their appreciation for authentically scientific approaches toward problem-solving.
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...a sad irony to how science is now providing tools for people who, knowingly or otherwise, are using them in un-scientific ways.