towards a career in science, I started reading skeptical literature. This was at least partly due to a reaction to my state-run, but fundamentalist Christian controlled schooling. If there's anything that'll turn me from a mild-mannered Fortean into a raving fundamentalist Skeptic, it's fundie Christians."
Sieveking reckons that the Forteans' biggest enemies are actually fundamentalist materialists, "Those who say those things that aren't understood are imagined. If it isn't susceptible to being reproduced in the lab right now, then it doesn't exist."
"Forteans," he continues, "are born with an intense desire to muck up the status quo. We're natural troublemakers."
