Robert Emerson Bartholomew was born on August 17,1958 and is an American medical sociologist, journalist and author living in New Zealand.
13 Facts About Robert Bartholomew
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Robert Bartholomew is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
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Robert Bartholomew writes for several newspapers and journals on sociological and fringe science topics, including Psychology Today, Skeptical Inquirer, and British magazines The Skeptic and Fortean Times.
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Robert Bartholomew has lived and worked in Malaysia and in 2009 worked in sociology at International University College of Technology.
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Robert Bartholomew is currently an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
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Robert Bartholomew has written extensively about 600 notable instances including the Salem witch trials, the 2011 Le Roy illness, which Bartholomew has described as "the first case of this magnitude to occur in the US during the social networking era", and present-day manifestations, most of which he has said have yet to be studied in-depth by sociologists.
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In 2016, Robert Bartholomew investigated the 2012 case of an outbreak of hiccups in Danvers, Massachusetts, in which 24 young people were stricken with apparently uncontrollable hiccups.
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Robert Bartholomew is frequently interviewed as an expert on topics as diverse as the "Pokemon Panic" of 1997, the spread of UFO conspiracy theories, the 2016 clown panic, the viral spread of online fads such as Pokemon Go, and Havana syndrome, the suspected energy weapon attacks against American and Canadian government personnel which began in 2016, about which he said:.
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In March 2020, Robert Bartholomew was invited to attend a medical conference in Havana, Cuba, on the "attacks", where he repeated the claim that stress-induced mass psychogenic illness was the most likely cause.
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In 2020, Robert Bartholomew's self-published No Maori Allowed: New Zealand's Forgotten History of Racial Segregation, which looked at the history of segregation and discrimination against Maori people in the Auckland suburb of Pukekohe.
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On 19 June 2020, Robert Bartholomew told Te Ao Maori News that a publisher had said his book No Maori Allowed was too pro-Maori.
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Robert Bartholomew is the author of several popular science and skeptical non-fiction books including:.
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In 2017, Robert Bartholomew was elected a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.