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This is not a separate work: it is the Society for Psychical Research's own Psi Encyclopedia entry summarizing methodological criticisms of reincarnation case studies, one article inside the same continuously maintained online reference this atlas also records as a general source. It descends from that encyclopedia rather than standing beside it, so citing this entry alongside the general Psi Encyclopedia record, or alongside another of its articles, is one editorial voice, not corroboration. Its real limit is the encyclopedia's own limit: an advocacy-adjacent field reference rather than a religiously neutral academic body, though this particular entry summarizes the critics' own objections, including Champe Ransom's, to Ian Stevenson's case method rather than defending it. Use it for what this specific entry states about the documented methodological critiques of reincarnation case studies; a claim needing the critics' own full published arguments needs a source produced outside the Society.

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This is the Society for Psychical Research's own Psi Encyclopedia entry summarizing methodological criticism, an advocacy-adjacent field reference rather than a religiously neutral academic body, hence the middle tier.
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Summarises Champe Ransom's and other critics' methodological objections to Stevenson's case method.
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This record's own Author field names the Society for Psychical Research's own Psi Encyclopedia, not an individual named scholar, for its entry on Criticisms of Reincarnation Case Studies; one article inside that same continuously maintained project, not a witness independent of it.

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This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 2 popular myth - corrected. As cited relationships: 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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