I personally think that one of the worst decisions ever made in the literature is the decision not to further research mediums and psychics who were caught cheating. Cheating and actual paranormal phenomena are not mutually exclusive and never have been. The doubled truth is difficult: fraud, deception, and revelation are all often woven imperceptibly together into a tight mix that can only frustrate the purist of any type, including the orthodox gatekeeper, the responsible historian, and the contemporary skeptic. Many times over, the trickster is inherent in the experience of the phenomenon,
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