"The Bent Spoon" was an online magazine between 2011 and 2015, founded by Nicholas Callis and Bobby Nelson.
"The Bent Spoon" was created in an attempt to address the divide between "the believers" and those "more skeptical in nature". The introduction to "The Bent Spoon" commented that "the true believers rarely, if ever, embrace a skeptical attitude or ask tough questions of their community; instead preferring to surround themselves with like- minded individuals that reinforce their own belief systems", and the skeptics "likewise, promote science and critical thinking largely to those already open to it, or who are active participants in the skeptical community". "The Bent Spoon" was intended to be "a skeptical magazine for the true believer" with articles "critical of both believers and skeptics alike".
That polarisation between "believers" and "skeptics" within the UFO/Fortean communities (and the tendency towards researchers merely participating in echo chambers) is something that many other researchers (including myself...) have commented on over the years.
I think it would be fair to consider that "The Bent Spoon" tended more towards the skeptical end of the spectrum, but it was a noteworthy in that it least attempted to try to bridge the divide between "skeptics" and "believers" (to adopt the terminally used in that publication).
A blog in relation to "The Bent Spoon" currently remains online and the various issues are scattered through the posts on that blog. However, the Facebook page for "The Bent Spoon" seems to have closed over the last few years and I do not know if "The Bent Spoon" blog will remain online indefinitely. I therefore thought it making copies of this publication freely available in the AFU's online archive in a format that makes it easier to download a full set of searchable PDFs.
I am grateful to Bobby Nelson for kindly agreed to this.
Click on either of the images below for a link to the folder containing a set of "The Bent Spoon" magazine.
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