Talk:Helen Hadsell

Maintaining Helene Hadsell's Legacy
My name is Carolyn Wilman and my company owns all of Helene Hadsell's work and is maintaining her legacy. I agree there are errors on the Wiki page. I spoke to her son Dike about helping me to correct them. He said, "Well, if it's on the Internet, it must be true." As I only have some of her records, I can only fix some of the errors, but not all of them. I am happy to help in any way I can. PittaGirl1967 (talk) 17:31, 24 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for posting here. Do let us know what you believe is a factual error on this page.  Please be as specific as possible, and please point to some source or other evidence that you think validates your belief.  [Wasted Time R (talk) 22:05, 24 May 2023 (UTC)]

"Tabloids" and "fringe"
I don't know if this person was you or someone else, but in any case, I do not believe that any of the sources used in the current article are "tabloids" in the classic sense of the British press or the New York Post. Instead, they are mostly regional or local broadsheets, which were the newspapers where Helene Hadsell's activities were most commonly reported. So it is necessary to know the specific names of newspapers used here that are being characterized as unreliable tabloids. Wasted Time R (talk) 22:05, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

It is now clear that this is a separate matter from the Carolyn Wilman post.User:49.186.37.225, presumably the same person as 49.195.22.237, has now put a Fringe section tag on the "Author and lecturer" section, with the edit comment "fringe and pseudoscientific views lacking neutrality in this section. Also warning that 1st hand research is being solicited in the talk page. This article could do with edits from those less aligned with her work."

But if you read more carefully, you will see that there is nothing in the "Author and lecturer" section that accepts at face value anything Hadsell talked about during this period. Instead, the article just says that during this period, she gave lectures on a mind control technique, or that during this other period, she said she won prizes due to auric energy, and so forth. It is a fact that she engaged in these activities and made those claims. Relating those facts does not mean that the activities have any basis in science (they don't) or that her claims during this period were grounded in reality (they weren't). Wasted Time R (talk) 10:50, 1 June 2023 (UTC)