Is there life after death? And if so, do the dead come back? Can we communicate?
Faith attempts to answer these questions. Periodically science has, too. Never mind that science would rather forget the whole thing.
The last major embrace of ghosts by sober-minded scientists is the provocative subject of a new book, “Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death” (Penguin Press) by Deborah Blum, professor of journalism at UW-Madison. She’s an award-winning science writer and author of the widely praised “Love at Goon Park.”