[5] After Burguet was exposed later in the same year, Moses insisted that Buguet was still a genuine medium and he had been bribed to make a false confession.

[8][9][10] In 1884, Moses was a founding member, together with Rogers, of the London Spiritualist Alliance, afterwards the College of Psychic Studies.

[1] Moses performed in dark conditions only with a small select circle of friends, he did not allow psychical researchers to attend his séances and refused to be tested.

[11] The psychical researcher Frank Podmore wrote: It seems reasonable to conclude that all the marvels reported at [Moses] seances were, in fact, produced by the medium's own hands: that it was he who tilted the table and produced the raps, that the scents, the seed pearls, and the Parian statuettes were brought into the room in his pockets: and that the spirit lights were, in fact, nothing more than bottles of phosphorised oil.

[12]It was suggested that Moses looked up obituaries, daily newspapers, biographies or The Annual Register to research the history of deceased people.

[12] Joseph McCabe described Moses as a "deliberate impostor" and wrote that his apports and all of his feats were the result of trickery.

[14] A psychologist Théodore Flournoy wrote that before admitting a supernatural explanation for the automatic writings of Moses, "we must first of all be sure that he himself was not capable of elaborating them subconsciously.

[16] Researcher Georgess McHargue has suggested that Moses' mediumship was the result of self-suggestion and unconscious trickery.