I just finished reading Houdini's biography and he was a HUGE debunker of spiritualists even though he was a beleiver of life after death (he had a weird relationship with his mother and spent fortunes going to seances to try to talk with her)
He ultimately realized that they were all fake and spent years and alot of his own money traveling across the states proving they were fake. He was a member of Scientific American where he posted a reward for a real "medium"... the reward was never claimed.
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