Talk:Tavistock Institute

message: This page seems lacking from what I've read and heard about Tavistock. If the LSD experiments and mind control experiments are indeed false, it should mention that these rumors have been disproved (and backed up with references). I'd like a better idea of some of the experiments they have been involved in, and perhaps some of their goals. There is no doubt there are Marxist ties to this organization judging from the current Wikipedia entry. It also mentions group psychology studies. What is their relationship to the whole LSD thing? In short, the current entry is quite vague about what this organization is all about. JettaMann 21:21, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm no expert, but I do know that the various Tavistock centers are easily confused. There's some mention of LSD experiments in Tavistock Clinic.  ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 22:02, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Tavistock Institute conducts no clinical reseach or any type, and it has no Marxist ties -- it stands in the heritage of Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein. How on earth can you disprove these rumours? At one point, this article even argued that the Tavistock Institute owned the Hoover Institution. The whole point about conspiracy theories is that the proposers feel that the lack of proof validates them. That is not Wikipedia's approach: we need references to include something.  --Duncan 11:05, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: More on this: Conspiracy theories are mostly [original research]]. We don't include that. To include rumours and then disprove them is not encyclopedic work, and would be mired in POV disputes. For example, I have also seen claims that the Wharton school of business is part of the Tavi: totally bizzare. --Duncan 13:11, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: LSD Research

message: Among the various urban legends surrounding the Tavistock Institute, one of the more interesting stories is the assertion that Tavistock played a significant role in the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. It would be interesting any of our editors would be able to research these claims.  ADM (talk) 19:09, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a very painful article. It doesn't actually claim, despite the title, that the Tavistock Institute played any role in the creation of Israel - let alone have any references we can use. However, it brings together a number of conspiracy theories which are original research.--Duncan (talk) 11:59, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

text: There are no reliable references to support that claim. --Duncan (talk) 13:37, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: No role in the creation of Israel

message: I encountered the name of the Institute in a joke linking some idea to be as wild as someone claiming a plot by Tavistock. I came here and found nothing, searching you get over 47,000 hits on the topic. So I have found notable and reliable cites that do not perpetuate any claims against the Institute but do give some brief explanation of what is going on. I would argue that running into these theories as wild as they maybe is how most people will know that the Institute even exists and it makes sense to give some info on that here. It is not necessary to give any validity to the theories but I would hold that they are notable enough to get a mention that the theories exist.
---Wowaconia (talk) 18:13, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  On adding segment about being a target of conspiracy theorists 

message: Hello wikipedia, I put some recent details about the work that the Tavistock Institute does to try and give a fuller picture of it and because one of the charitable objectives is to share knowledge and information. I moved the current work section up so readers get a sense of that before diving into the history. I hope that's all okay and I would like to disclose that I am employed there. Luciente Grey (talk) 18:35, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update on current work of the Tavistock Institute