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Volume 16: Number 3: Article 6
A Search for Anomalies
William R. Corliss, Sourcebook Project, P.O. Box 107, Glen Arm, MD,
21057
Since 1965 I have been culling systematically from the literature of
science those observations that challenge reigning paradigms. The tangible
result of the thousands of hours spent in libraries has been a series
of Sourcebooks, Handbooks, and Catalogs that, at present, describe and
evaluate roughly 2,000 anomalies — about one-half of my total collection.
Some of these anomalies are truly profound and have important implications
for science, such as the quantization of astronomical redshifts; others
are less significant, as is the recent discovery of that curious little
door in one of hte Great Pyramid's "air-shafts." Overall, this immense
accumulation of anomalies will hopefully encourage new research projects,
some paradigm shifting, perhaps even the emergence of yet-undreamed-of
hypotheses that will better describe nature.
This historical essay begins in 1951 with my astonishment at my unexpected
discovery that important scientific anomalies not only exist but also
are pervasive and abundant in the professional journals. The essay continues
with the translation of these two epiphanies into the Sourcebook Project
and the 36 books on anomalies that it has published so far.
Keywords: anomalies, Sourcebook Project
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