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When the Danish margarine manufacturer Poul Thorsen died in 1962, he had recently bequeathed a large sum of money for a professorship in parapsychology and hypnology. The universities of Stockholm and Copenhagen declined the offer. Lund University in southern Sweden accepted it. However, two persons were entitled to an allowance from the same fund. Therefore, the donation could not be used until the last of them had passed away, in 2001.
In May 2003 Lund University announced a professorship in "psychology, including parapsychology and hypnology." From the thirty applicants...