“How do we account for the current paranormal vogue in the popular media? Perhaps it has something to do with the millennium – in which case it's depressing to realise that the millennium is still three years away.”

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (1996)

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