Ivor Lloyd Tuckett

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Ivor Lloyd Tuckett
Physiologist
, skeptic

Ivor Lloyd Tuckett (1 February 1873 โ€“ 28 November 1942) was a British professor of physiology, physician, and skeptic.

Career

Tuckett was born at Cleveland Gardens,

MA (1897), and MD (1910). He was a physician at University College Hospital and was made a Fellow of University College London.[1]

Tuckett worked as an

Journal of Physiology. He wrote an important paper on the structure of non-meduallated nerve fibres. He was elected a member of The Physiological Society in 1896.[2]

He married Anna Marie Christine Wickman on 6 April 1899.[3]

Skepticism

Tuckett became known as an exposer of the false claims of spiritualists. He is best known for his book The Evidence for the Supernatural: A Critical Study Made with "Uncommon Sense" (1911). The book exposed the tricks of fraudulent mediums and is a criticism of the claims of psychical research. It received a positive review in the British Medical Journal.[4]

It was also positively reviewed in The Lancet which concluded "It is decidedly a book to be read by all who are interested in human psychology; and every practitioner of medicine ought to place himself in this category."[5] Psychologist Joseph Jastrow highly recommended the book in a detailed review for The Dial. He described it as "thorough in execution, so broad in treatment, so acceptable in form and content, is a cause for congratulation in the rationalistic camp."[6]

Publications

Books

Papers

  • Tuckett, Ivor Lloyd. (1912-1913). Psychical Researchers and "the Will to Believe". Bedrock 1: 180โ€“204.
  • Tuckett, Ivor Lloyd. (1912-1913). The Illogical Position of Some Psychical Researchers. Bedrock 1: 470โ€“487.

References

  1. ISBN 0-7190-3282-2
  2. ^ Anonymous. (1943). Ivor Lloyd Tuckett. British Journal of Ophthalmology 27 (3): 143.
  3. ^ Benson, Robert Seymour. (1912). Photographic Pedigree of the Descendants of Isaac and Rachel Wilson. William Appleyard & Sons. p. 206
  4. ^ Anonymous. (1912). A Study Of Psychical Research. British Medical Journal 1 (2667): 308-309.
  5. ^ Anonymous. The Evidence for the Supernatural. The Lancet. Volume 1. (January 6, 1912). p. 40
  6. ^ Jastrow, Joseph. (1912). A Rational View of the Supernatural. The Dial 52: 461-463.
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