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Anomalistics is the use of scientific methods to evaluate anomalies (phenomena that fall outside of current understanding), with the aim of finding a rational explanation.〔Hess David J. (1997) ''Science Studies: an advanced introduction'', New York University Press, ISBN 0-8147-3564-9〕 The term itself was coined in 1973 by Drew University anthropologist Roger W. Wescott, who defined it as being the "serious and systematic study of all phenomena that fail to fit the picture of reality provided for us by common sense or by the established sciences."〔 Wescott credited journalist and researcher Charles Fort as being the creator of anomalistics as a field of research, and he named biologist Ivan T. Sanderson and Sourcebook Project compiler William R. Corliss as being instrumental in expanding anomalistics to introduce a more conventional perspective into the field.〔Clark, Jerome (1993) "Encyclopedia of Strange and Unexplained Physical Phenomena", Thomson Gale, ISBN 0-8103-8843-X〕 Henry Bauer, emeritus professor of science studies at Virginia Tech, writes that anomalistics is "a politically correct term for the study of bizarre claims",〔Bauer, Henry (2000) ''Science Or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena and Other Heterodoxies'', University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-02601-2〕 while David J. Hess of the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute describes it as being "the scientific study of anomalies defined as claims of phenomena not generally accepted by the bulk of the scientific community."〔 Anomalistics covers several sub-disciplines, including ufology, cryptozoology, and parapsychology. Researchers involved in the field have included ufologist J. Allen Hynek and cryptozoologist Bernard Heuvelmans.〔''Science'', 5 November 1999: Vol. 286. no. 5442, p. 1079.〕 ==Field== According to Marcello Truzzi, Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University, anomalistics works on the principles that "unexplained phenomena exist", but that most can be explained through the application of scientific scrutiny. Further, that something remains plausible until it has been conclusively proven not only implausible but actually impossible, something that science does not do. In 2000, he wrote that anomalistics has four basic functions: #to aid in the evaluation of a wide variety of anomaly claims proposed by protoscientists; #to understand better the process of scientific adjudication and to make that process both more just and rational; #to build a rational conceptual framework for both categorizing and accessing anomaly claims; and #to act in the role of amicus curiae ("friend of the court") to the scientific community in its process of adjudication.〔Truzzi, Marcello (2002) "The Perspective of Anomalistics" (section only) - "Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience", Fitzroy Dearborn, ISBN 1-57958-207-9〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「anomalistics」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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