Posts Tagged "skeptic"
My saddening experience with r/atheism
Just four days after Jen McCreight wrote about awful comments being made about her by people on the r/atheism group on Reddit I logged into my website stats and noticed a huge amount of hits from r/atheism, and my heart sank.
The Monster Men: Part 1
It isn’t very often that you are asked whether you would be at all interested in going monster hunting with an investigator you’ve admired for the majority of your life, which is why when the organisers of QEDcon asked me in 2011 if I’d be up for visiting Lake Windermere and Loch Ness with Joe Nickell I said ‘YES PLEASE!’. Not only did it fill me with immense joy that Joe would be speaking at QEDcon in March 2012, I danced around the room because I would be investigating two lake monsters with the legendary Joe Nickell – the man whose work I have admired from afar for a long time.
Is there anybody there?
In January I spoke for the Centre For Inquiry about ghosts, ghost hunting and ghost hunters. The CFI have since made the video of the talk available and I have embedded it below.
Intimidation as a distraction
You may remember that a while ago I blogged about a man called Don Philip who in involved with a paranormal group called GSI UK. After I was critical of the methods they used on investigations I was subjected to abuse from Don. You can read about it here and here, but to summarise the experience, rather than answer the criticisms as I had offered him the chance to, he ranted and raved online about how GSI were being attacked because of how good they were.
Grow up, Mr Philip!
I really don’t want to write much more about Don Philip and the GSI UK team because I have much more important stuff to be concentrating on, but Don just doesn’t seem to understand my points and I want to round things off with a final post here.
Trystan Swale has written about Don and GSI here and here, and in the comments of the first article Don has responded in the same way he did on my blog – by missing the point and attacking the critic rather than answering their criticisms.
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