Ghost Hunting : Remarkably Dull Work
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From a review of Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death:
And open to spirits James and his fellow researchers were, assiduously attending sιances, conscientiously attempting to separate out the obviously disingenuous from the not so obviously disingenuous and from the possibly even genuine. It was remarkably dull work. “Few species of literature are more truly dull than reports of phantasms,” James complained in “What Psychical Research Has Accomplished.” “Taken simply by themselves, as separate facts to stare at, they appear so devoid of meaning and sweep, that even were they certainly true, one would be tempted to leave them out of one’s universe for being so idiotic.”