Greg Taylor

[[File:Greg Taylor.jpg|165px|thumb|right|Greg Taylor]]
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'''Greg Taylor''' is an [[Australia]]n blogger and [[pseudoscience]] promoter. He is the owner of the [[paranormal]] website, "Daily Grail".

Taylor has an obsession with the [[medium]] [[Leonora Piper]].<ref>[http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2013/11/10-19-mu-podcast/ 10.19 – MU Podcast]</ref> He repeatedly claims that skeptics have failed to debunk the medium. He also has a grudge against [[Martin Gardner]], [[James Randi]], and anyone associated with the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]].<ref group=note> See for example his hit-piece on [[Martin Gardner]] [http://www.dailygrail.com/essays/2010/11/skeptical-skeptic 1]</ref> 

==Daily Grail==
Focusing on the paranormal, the Daily Grail is a website that supports all kinds of crazy [[woo]] and [[conspiracy theories]]. It features credulous and funny articles claiming all kinds of magical things like [[alien]]s, [[ghost]]s, and [[ectoplasm]]s exist. Taylor is a big fan of [[Rupert Sheldrake]].<ref group=note> His support for [[Rupert Sheldrake]], see [http://dailygrail.com/Fresh-Science/2014/7/Rupert-Sheldrake-Discusses-Morphic-Resonance-and-Animal-Telepathy-Scientific-Am 1], [http://www.dailygrail.com/Fresh-Science/2012/8/Biologist-Rupert-Sheldrake-Explains-the-Ten-Dogmas-Holding-Science-Back 2], [http://www.dailygrail.com/Skepticism/2013/10/Maverick-Biologist-Rupert-Sheldrake-Criticizes-Attacks-Guerilla-Skeptics-Wikipedi 3] for examples.</ref> 

A popular article amongst woo-believers on the website is called "The Myth of the Million Dollar Challenge" (in reference to Randi's [[million-dollar challenge]]). It quotes [[parapsychology]] cranks such as [[Stephen E. Braude]] and [[Dean Radin]] who claim the challenge is biased against the paranormal, and the million dollars will always remain safe.<ref>[http://www.dailygrail.com/features/the-myth-of-james-randis-million-dollar-challenge The Myth of the Million Dollar Challenge]</ref> 

Taylor was interviewed by [[Alex Tsakiris]] on Skeptiko, during which he stated:

{{quotebox|I posted an article a while back: The Myth of the Million Dollar Challenge, which I think is a pretty rational look at how the Million Dollar Challenge means nothing really. It’s always quoted by skeptics as disproving the existence of anything. It means nothing. I did this rational thing, and that’s hard, I think, thirty thousand readers online, so that’s a lot of people getting that information and maybe thinking about it a bit harder – even if Randi did call it a tirade [Laughter]. At least it was a rational look and I think I educated a few people, so that’s the goal, to keep spreading information. That’s what the internet gives us, a chance to educate people a bit more about the truth behind a lot of these claims.<ref>[http://www.skeptiko.com/67-greg-taylor-of-the-daily-grail-on-the-new-skeptics/ Greg Taylor, of The Daily Grail on the New Skeptics]</ref> }}

However, James Randi in response to Taylor noted that his article was mostly inaccurate and slid "downhill into innuendo, ''[[ad hominem]]'', and blatantly false attacks."<ref>[http://archive.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/169-swift-february-29-2008.html#i9 THE Grubbies Attack!]</ref>

==''Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlif''e==
Taylor is the author of ''Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife'' (2013).<ref>[http://www.spr.ac.uk/publication/stop-worrying-there-probably-afterlife Stop Worrying! There Probably is an Afterlife]</ref> The book claims that the fraudulent medium [[Leonora Piper]] communicated with spirits and is notable for ignoring skeptical material on the subject.<ref group=note>See the references for [[Leonora Piper]]. Her biggest critics such as Ivor Lloyd Tuckett and Joseph Rinn are not cited by Taylor anywhere in the book.</ref> The book uncritically promotes [[non-materialist neuroscience]] and [[quantum woo]]. Taylor thinks anecdotal stories from [[near-death experience]]s are evidence for the mind existing independently of the brain. There is not a shred of empirical evidence found in the book. But apparently we do ''probably'' survive [[death]] according to Taylor.

==External links==
*[http://www.dailygrail.com/ Daily Grail]
*[https://twitter.com/DailyGrail Twitter]

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