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British academic Robert H. Thouless (?-1984[1]) is best known as the author of Straight and Crooked Thinking (1953), which describes flaws in reasoning and argument.

He earned his PhD at was also a lecturer in psychology at Manchester, Glasgow, and the University of Cambridge.

He wrote on psychic phenomena, not as an advocate but describing a scientific approach to studying something which is not known with certainty to exist.

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• Thirty-eight dishonest tricks - extract from Straight and Crooked Thinking.
• An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural - describes Thouless' test for survival after death.
• Survival After Death website - articles by Thouless on a scientific approach to psychic phenomena.