Word: superrationalist
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Perhaps parapsychology's most gullible proponent was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the superrationalist detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle remains the greatest proof that intelligence and scruple cannot compete with naiveté and the desire to accept the paranormal as demonstrable fact. After the death of his son in the Great War, he turned to spiritualism for solace. This led, in time, to investigations of spirits, and eventually to little winged creatures in the bottoms of gardens. In his 1922 volume The Coming of the Fairies, Doyle reproduced photographs of a tiny goblin and elves caught by a child...
Trotsky had special glands for invective, reserving the bitterest for liberals who did not share his theories of revolution. He emerges as a superrationalist technician to whom history was "an enormous machine in the service of our ideals." But he also felt he had unique intuitive powers...
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