Idea Smasher
Carlos OrsiA collider of concepts, ideias and culture with a skeptical, scientific bent
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 76 | Subscribers | Read | carlosorsi.substack.com |
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Scientists who heard a ghost's beating heart
In May 1936, a New York City quack doctor, Edwin F. Bowers, told the newspaper Brooklyn Daily Eagle that he and a proper M.D., the surgeon and gynecologist Meyer Blatt, had examined a “materialized spirit” with a stethoscope. They listened ...
The truth about X-ray eyes
Wes Anderson’s 2023 fantasy short film—almost a fairy tale—The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, made for Netflix, received countless (and thoroughly deserved) accolades. Although many comments about the film upon its release mentioned its in...
The sciencewashing of religious sentiment
Last year, the Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition published a paper (Cozzolino et al., 2025) about the characteristics that “cases of the reincarnation type” (CORT) manifesting xenoglossy had in common. In other words, the author...
The mystery of grave 559
Dean Bidgman Conner was a 27-year-old electrician and lighting operator hired in late 1894 to work for an American circus in Mexico City. It seems he was already presenting symptoms of some illness when he left the United States for the job...
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Carlos Orsi is Brazilian a journalist, editor-in-chief of Revista Questão de Ciência, author of several books of science popularization in Portuguese,with essays translated into Spanish and English. Skeptic. Also Sherlockian.
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