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Criticisms of reincarnation research
The main objections raised against reincarnation case studies, from fraud and cultural shaping to psychic explanations and the population argument, and how researchers have answered them.
Jagdish Chandra
A boy from Bareilly whose statements, from the age of three, about a life in Benares as Jai Gopal, son of Babu Pandey, who supervised a bathing ghat there, were written down by his lawyer father and published in a newspaper in 1926 before anyone checked them.
James Leininger
An American boy whose nightmares and statements about being a Second World War navy pilot were matched to James Huston Jr, shot down during the Iwo Jima campaign in 1945; one of the best-known Western cases, and one of the most debated.
Mallika Aroumougam
A girl in Pondicherry who, just before her fourth birthday, claimed cushions embroidered by her neighbour's dead sister as her own work and went on to identify with that sister; a case with few verifiable details in which the two families shared a house.
Pollock twins
Identical twins born in Hexham in 1958, seventeen months after their two older sisters were killed by a driver; the younger twin had birthmarks matching a scar and a mole of one sister, and the pair made a few statements and recognitions that their parents linked to the sisters' lives.