“Here was a man with a flawless scientific reputation, who discovered a new element, but could not detect a real live maiden who was masquerading as a ghost.”
William Crookes was born today in 1832. Read how the renowned scientist was swayed by spiritualism and the faddish pseudoscience of the day.
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