User:GhostDancer

GhostDancer is Steve Foster.

Steve was born in Liverpool in 1958, is married, has a son and lives in Brentwood, Essex in the UK. He used to work as a management consultant and as an IT architect, but he is now retired.

Steve is reasonably knowledgeable on Physics, Astronomy and many scientific matters. Yes, Steve does have a top-notch science degree to back up this claim and is working on another. However, there are certainly smarter and better qualified people writing here too.

Steve has a special interest in unusual and fringe beliefs, but does not hold to such beliefs himself. Instead, he wonders why people hold these beliefs and is fascinated by the strange thought processes that lead people to favour them over rational ones.

Steve has concerns about covert use of Wikipaedia to promote these strange beliefs through the guise of supposedly impartial articles. He sees parallels with the ID movement's tactics for gaining credibility. For some topics, there is no such thing as a neutral article. Steve believes that such stealth tactics should not go unchallenged. Yes, by all means write articles about these topics but make it clear that, in the light of current best knowledge, they are not mainstream, scientific, nor rational.

People and things that Steve admires

 * Richard Dawkins
 * Richard Feynman
 * Sir Richard Burton
 * Philip Glass
 * Spinoza
 * James Ellroy
 * Tom Waits
 * The Black Paintings of Goya
 * Chile
 * A Chinese Ghost Story

Steve (talk) 12:42, 30 December 2020 (UTC)