It’s Freethought Day in commemoration of October 12, 1692, the day the Salem Witch Trials were ended by the governor of Massachusetts. The trials had gotten completely out of hand, particularly in the kinds of evidence that were being allowed. The tipping point, for the governor, was “spectral evidence” — that is, supernatural things that somebody claim…
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