User talk:AmosDoyle

On the Patience Worth article on one of your IP addresses you added the content "In 1938 the A.S.P.R. offered a point-by-point rebuttal of all of Hyslop's accusations concluding that Hyslop had been misinformed about the Patience Worth case."

Do you have the author for this? Because the American Society for Psychical Research does not hold any corporate opinions. All articles or reports by the ASPR are from the individual writer, not the entire ASPR. So the claim that the A.S.P.R refuted Hyslop is demonstrably false, it was only the opinion of a single writer. If you can give the name of the writer from the ASPR who offered a point by point rebuttal of Hyslop's accusations then it can be added, but we can't claim the entire ASPR refuted Hyslop because this is not what the references indicate. Thanks. Goblin Face (talk) 17:05, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes the reference is A.S.P.R. Journal, April 1938, p.111

But who is the author? If you can give me the author who has refuted Hyslop's accusations it can be added. Goblin Face (talk) 17:18, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I have found the source that mentions this, the article was anonymous:

Many years later, in 1938 the ASPR journal published an anonymous article which refuted all of Hyslop's points one by one. It reaffirmed that the Ozark dialect in no way resembled the language of Patience, that a superficial knowledge of Chaucer could never have given Mrs Curran the vocabulary necessary to compose the Patience Worth literature; and that Hyslop's attribution of authorship to Mrs Curann's subconscious mind was simply untenable.

From: Alfred Douglas. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research. Overlook Press. p. 171

I noticed that the Douglas source was used on the article but whoever added it obviously didn't include the above. I will add this information in. Goblin Face (talk) 17:29, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]