Investigating anomalies offers great challenges. One seeks to study what the consensus of scholarship or science asserts to be spurious or impossible.
Any progress is dismissed if it contradicts established views.
Very rarely can one make a living as a teacher or researcher while engaged primarily in pursuit of anomalies. On all these grounds, anomalist researchers will be able to empathize with Steven Roger Fischer. Nevertheless Fischer succeeded in both instances. His story is intellectually exciting, and written sufficiently well that lay people like myself can follow it with interest and pleasure. It is a great pity that this book has some major flaws.