Edinburgh University has been running a Parapsychology Unit for the past 20 years, funded by a grant from the late novelist, Arthur Koestler.

Morris, happy to appoint sceptics as researchers, gently steered the unit away from the more outré forms of paranormal research, such as investigating UFO sightings. Above all, he never overstated his case.

In 2002, he told New Scientist magazine that when he came to Edinburgh University he “set the odds at about 85% that we were studying something that would turn out to be above and beyond what present-day science could account for. During those years, I’ve probably drifted into the low to middle 90s”.

On the other hand, he warned that “researchers need to get away from the notion of believing or disbelieving. People don’t talk about believing in other fields. It looks to me as though there is something new going on, but it wouldn’t blow me over if it turned out there wasn’t.”

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