University Researchers Said to Find New Correlation in Possible Reincarnation Cases

THE INTERNET — A Reddit user posting to r/HighStrangeness has drawn the attention of the board's readers to a report of university research on cases of possible reincarnation, under a headline announcing a "new correlation" in the material.

The post, as scraped, is brief. It carries a single line of text about one of the researchers. According to that line, Philip Cozzolino is a research professor and one of the senior authors of the work. He is said to have stated that skeptics' explanations do not hold up against the data.

The excerpt does not say what the correlation is, how many cases were examined, which university is involved, or where the findings were published. Nor does it set out which skeptical explanations were considered and found wanting. This newspaper therefore cannot report on the substance of the study, and readers should not take the claim of a correlation as established.

Claims of this kind are, in the nature of things, contested. Skeptics have long offered ordinary explanations for accounts of past-life memory, and the post as shown does not reproduce them. Those wishing to judge the matter are advised to consult the original article and the underlying paper, if any, linked from the thread.

Paranormal Daily will follow the matter should further details emerge.