From the linked paper about Dr. Stevenson."After Stevenson's paper was published, two people who read it would have a significant impact on his career. One was Eileen Garrett, a well-known medium who was President of the Parapsychology Foundation."

We just left the territory of science and went into nonsense-land when a spiritual medium is a part of a project. The other person was Chester Carlson, a scientist who became fabulously wealthy by inventing the Xerox process, who donated a million dollars to UVA in 1967 so that Stevenson could do his research because universities never turn down a million dollars. It would all be forgotten without that donation.