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Richard Hodgson, a member of the SPR, was sent to India. Hodgson was a research worker of paranormal phenomena. His task was to examine if the Mahatma Letters were received from real Mahatmas. In December 1884 Hodgson arrived in Adyar. He rapidly took over the point of view of Emma Coulomb. Hodgson wrote a 200-pages report, in which Blavatsky was described as one of the most gifted, ingenious and interesting impostors in history. The commission accepted uncritically the statements of Emma Coulomb. H.P. Blavatsky 's reputation was seriously damaged due to the Hodgson Report, and she wrote on 14 January 1886: That Mr. Hodgson's elaborate but misdirected inquiries, his affected precision, which spends infinite patience over trifles and is blind to facts of importance, his contradictory reasoning and his manifold incapacity to deal with such problems as those he endeavoured to solve, will be exposed by other writers in due course -- I make no doubt. -- H. P. Blavatsky: Collected Writings 7:9 J'ACCUSE: VERNON HARRISON'S EXAMINATION OF THE HODGSON REPORT In 1986, Vernon Harrison , a research worker of disputed documents, did a research on the Hodgson report. According to Harrison's examination, the Hodgson Report is not a scientific study, it "is flawed and untrustworthy" and "should be read with great caution, if not disregarded." (Harrison 1997) Harrison says about the Hodgson Report that "whereas Hodgson was prepared to use any evidence, however trivial or questionable, to implicate HPB, he ignored all evidence that could be used in her favor. His report is riddled with slanted statements, conjecture advanced as fact or probable fact, uncorroborated testimony of unnamed witnesses, selection of evidence and downright falsity." He concluded that Hodgson's case against Madame H. P. Blavatsky is not proven, and that there is no evidence that the Mahatma Letters were written by her. REFERENCES
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