OMG, what an excellent answer to the question crarko asked!!!
Without a doubt, "science" is truly your forte [and sole incentive]. crazy
I do hope we can feed more, from your fountain of knowledge.
How does Hal_lelujah go about disseminating science and creating interest for it within a culture where the universe of discourse seems to be pre-occupied with pirates and vampires?
I would say first understand the culture. The culture of vampirism is not universal really; it is based in the eastern side of Europe where Christians were fabricating more myths. What would a story about Vampires serve? It would certainly control a population to not travel at night. It could cover up violent acts done by regular Christians behind masks….and I'm sure there were Vampire hunts and hanging people who were falsely accused of drinking someone else's blood besides their gods.
There's a long tradition of fabricating stories to cover up crimes. Virgin birth was used quite frequently to cover up rape during Roman occupation during the time of Mary's Virgin birth.
How you change the culture of such beliefs is to try to find the origins and demonstrate practical reasoning for the outlandish claims. But I'm sure you have a scientific answer for cracko's question, or maybe your just trying play God's answer to science fiction writers. If you need a Vampire in your life by all means enjoy it with your Eucharist. I just think it's kind of silly myself but I understand your fear.
