Hayley is a ghost

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Hayley — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:05:43 +0000

Categories: musings

Tags: a, follow, ghost, hayley, is, stevens, subscribe, subscription

I recently moved my website over to a wordpress.org self hosted site instead of the wordpress.com one I had previously. This means that the people who subscribed to my blog through email updates and RSS feeds would have lost the connection to my blog posts. I tried to put out a post on my old ...

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Hayley is a ghost

Hayley — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:11:16 +0000

Categories: musings, paranormal, Skepticism

Tags: hayley, paranormal, podcast, research, skeptic, stevens

When I became tangled up in the web that is 'paranormal research' at the age of Eighteen, I did so because I was looking for information and answers. In all the subsequent years I have found information, I have found answers and I have discovered more questions. The more I have learnt, the more I ...

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The cost of an opinion

Hayley — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:01:29 +0000

Categories: atheism

Tags: atheist, oppression

What is the cost of an opinion? It could be a libel case with hundreds of thousands of pounds, or perhaps a smear campaign online trying to discredit you. It could be nastier - you could be threatened with violence by your peers, your job could be threatened with a well placed and malicious complaint, or ...

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Yet another clarification on ghosts and ethics

Hayley — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:36:54 +0000

Categories: paranormal, Skepticism

Tags: code, ethics, spr

I have been asked to write another clarification by the admin on the 'Society for Psychical Research (SPR)' on Facebook group (who does not represent the SPR) regarding my views and opinions on their lack of an formal ethical code. In response to my original blog post about this the admin posted a link to ...

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What can grassroots skeptics do about ghost hunting?

Hayley — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:10:39 +0000

Categories: paranormal, Skepticism

Tags: concern, damage, ghost, hunters, investigations, local, paranormal, skeptics

I've often been asked how grassroots skeptics and grassroots skeptic organisations (such as 'skeptics in the pub' groups) can deal with pseudo-scientific ghost hunting teams on a local level. This was also a point raised by the lovely Andy Wilson who hosted the 'Ghost Investigations Today' panel at QEDcon in February 2011. There certainly is ...

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Clarifying my points on ghosts & ethics

Hayley — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 11:07:37 +0000

Categories: paranormal, Skepticism

Yesterday I spoke for the ‘Centre for Inquiry UK’ at their ‘Beyond the Veil’ event alongside Chris French, Richard Wiseman, Paul Zenon and Ian Rowland (who has cemented in my mind the idea that glass tastes minty.) I felt compelled to write this piece just to clarify something said during my talk that was then ...

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Examples of EVP

Hayley — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:01:26 +0000

Categories: paranormal, Skepticism

Yesterday I spoke at the 'Centre For Inquiry' event, 'Beyond the Veil', at Conway Hall in London. Part of my talk included some examples of EVP recordings. The plan was to play the EVP recording and ask the audience to see if they could hear what was being said, before revealing what the alleged ...

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Poster girl for skepticism

Hayley — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:23:59 +0000

Categories: feminism, Skepticism

Tags: ageism, skeptic, Skepticism

In a recent post titled '2011' I wrote out a list of insults I had received last year. One of them was 'poster child for skepticism' and people have seemed confused as to why I would consider that an insult. I was actually wrong - I got called 'the poster girl for skepticism'. The reason ...

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Rebecca Watson

Hayley — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:38:44 +0000

Categories: feminism, Skepticism

I bet some of you are already spoiling for a fight in the comments of this post simply because of the title. How ridiculous of you. I was going to write down my thoughts about the recent 'Reddit makes me hate atheists' article written by Rebecca for Skepchick, but it seems so many people have summarised ...

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2011

Hayley — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:46:41 +0000

Categories: Skepticism

Idiot. Childish. Drama Queen. Attention Seeker. Loser. Ignorant. Poster Child for Skepticism. Freak. Oppressor. Sexist. Cunt. These are some of the things I have been called this year. I have also often been told I am wrong, silly or stupid for writing my thoughts on various topics, and for speaking out when I think something is wrong. To the people who have belittled me, ridiculed me, ...

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