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Letter: No mystery

Published 12 August 1995

From Ron Gardner

You recently reported that a research ship is to investigate the idea that methane bubbling up from beneath the seabed in the Bermuda Triangle may be “one cause of the mysterious disappearance of ships and planes” (This Week, 1 July).

What “mysterious disappearance of ships and planes” is being referred to? Kusche (The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved, Harper, New York 1975) demonstrated quite convincingly the nonexistence of a Bermuda Triangle. This has been amply demonstrated by subsequent researchers. Why are we being subjected to the spectacle of a serious scientific study apparently being supported by the need to explain a nonexistent phenomena?

Issue no. 1990 published 12 August 1995

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