Deletion of Jim Tucker

Comment: Tucker easily meets the general criteria for notability, not necessarily as an academic (although he is an assistant professor and medical director of a clinic at U.S. university), but for the Jim Tucker#Media_coverage|media coverage of his book (not just Oprah) and for the fact that he is a frequent consultant to the media on the question of apparent remembered past lives. It seems that the academic notability issue has been raised as a smokescreen for eliminating an article about Tucker because of a distaste for the nature of his research. I may be misreading this but it sure seems that way. Even if you don't agree with his research and think it doesn't deserve to be presented in WP because of its |fringe nature, how can you justify assessing him as non-notable on general criteria
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Fringe theories (WP:FRINGE)