Dr Jessica Taylor #6 A personality rarer than her pearl

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I once watched an online webinar that Jess did.
I didn’t learn anything new.
She took a few random breaks during a pretty short webinar which was frustrating as it was during most people’s working day.
It was just her talking and showing slides.
Nothing was interactive.

I once watched an online webinar that Gabor appeared in.
A number of different people spoke.
It left me wanting to explore the subject more.
It was very interactive.
There were no unnecessary breaks.
He did his compassionate enquiry with a guest and treated her with kindness, respect, compassion and dignity. It felt like an honour to witness the interaction. He also arranged to take her contact details so he could do some follow up work with her.

The two really can’t be compared in any way.
 
SavannahS said:
Why did she make everyone redundant? That's horrible I hope everyone's ok. It's a trauma to be suddenly left without work.
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No idea but merry Xmas your sacked is a low blow
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Boogs said:
I once watched an online webinar that Jess did.
I didn’t learn anything new.
She took a few random breaks during a pretty short webinar which was frustrating as it was during most people’s working day.
It was just her talking and showing slides.
Nothing was interactive.

I once watched an online webinar that Gabor appeared in.
A number of different people spoke.
It left me wanting to explore the subject more.
It was very interactive.
There were no unnecessary breaks.
He did his compassionate enquiry with a guest and treated her with kindness, respect, compassion and dignity. It felt like an honour to witness the interaction. He also arranged to take her contact details so he could do some follow up work with her.

The two really can’t be compared in any way.
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I met him at a conference he’s an amazing human being. Full of compassion and empathy and I could listen to him speak all day. His books are very good and don’t have stolen testimonies in them either. He’s got more professionalism and trauma informed care in his little finger than JT can ever hope to have. She’s not fit to be even compared to him.
 
nothanksbabes said:
God, everything she says is bleeping lowest common denominator GCSE-level bollocks.

News just in, scientists are human. That's why we make sure studies are replicable and peer-reviewed, which of course is a concept she doesn't understand either.
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I particularly like the bit at the end of the 1st tweet where Jess says "science isn't neutral, it has conflicts of interest, biases, profit, corruption" ...can she really not see the irony there? She could literally be describing both herself and VF with that statement.
 
I think science is neutral.
Evidence is tampered with and using phrases like evidence based to sell stuff is not neutral. It doesn't sound to me like she has much experience with science either. Was her degree prior to her self funded PhD in arts or sciences ? Like stand in humility before the people who work in these fields daily
 
Stella.alletS said:
I've literally just realised the cover of this book says "Sexy Dr Jessica Taylor But Psycho" 😂😂😂
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We pointed this out to her when she released the cover, but she went with it anyway. Probably because she blocks out the less than complimentary "but psycho" part and just likes calling herself sexy.

I laughed at the weird way she's holding it, just to show off her she's painted her nails. She's so vain.
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Jess "I love debating with people who don't agree with me"

Also Jess..
 

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SavannahS said:
I think science is neutral.
Evidence is tampered with and using phrases like evidence based to sell stuff is not neutral. It doesn't sound to me like she has much experience with science either. Was her degree prior to her self funded PhD in arts or sciences ? Like stand in humility before the people who work in these fields daily
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I think she might be confusing science with scientist, people can have agendas or biases, but science itself is knowledge and facts
 
Lula-lee said:
I find it a bit of a struggle to think that she wouldn’t have been aware of proper informed consent procedures having done a PhD that involved interviewing vulnerable women about sensitive topics. But I’m trying to put myself in that position - having only just completed a PhD rather than being part of an institution where ethical review and processes are the everyday norm for most research and anything involving data collection. Perhaps it wasn’t so much of a stretch for her to think that because the information she gathered from women for her book didn’t need formal ethical review because it wasn’t part of a formal research project? Or she thought she’d covered it via her internal VF ethical review (which probably didn’t exist in any formal sense). That aside, I totally agree the greatest problem is her refusal to sincerely apologise and rectify the situation (as much as possible) by removing all the content as requested. It’s a real shame she has to double down and caused so much pain to the women and that she herself can’t learn and grow from the mess she made.
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Based on her behaviour after graduating, I have a strong suspicion that she thought the ethical review process was a hurdle to jump for the PhD, and that once she had been given that badge of status she could conduct whatever research she wanted however she wanted. The way she speaks on topics way outside her knowledge and understanding (while simultaneously making her Dr title work overtime) suggests she viewed the qualification as an access all areas backstage pass. To her it isn't a reflection of a particular piece of work she did at a particular time, it's a guarantee that her every thought and action is now beyond reproach. I moved straight into a postdoctoral fellowship after my PhD, and I had two mentors (both professors) to help me find my feet and I was part of a scheme to support early career researchers (ECRs), with workshops and so on. My second postdoc was more hands-off, but I still had a senior academic for my mentor. Jessica's unshakeable belief that she's a unique genius who has learnt all she needs to know when it comes to research methods and ethics will keep tripping her up.

BigYellow said:
I think she's playing to conspiracy theorists. Hopefully it has nothing to do with plugging her next book at 2.30 this morning, the one that HAS to be written.
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They are her natural audience. While decrying "sheeple", they gravitate to anyone who is prepared to tell them that they are extra-specially insightful and able to appreciate truths that the masses can't face - and JT absolutely has form for doing that. "Not everyone is ready for my thoughts and ideas", etc. It's a match made in hell: she will love the unswerving devotion and attention they provide, and they'll love the feeling that they're in an exclusive little club, fathoming great truths that are off-limits to the rest.
 
Actually stunned she had the gall to put this out.

Where does calling other women ‘witches’ and ‘c*nts’ in work chat fall into this? Threatening female survivors with bullets and knives?

Institutional covert and overt misogyny?
 

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umnothatsnotokay said:
Actually stunned she had the gall to put this out.

Where does calling other women ‘witches’ and ‘c*nts’ in work chat fall into this? Threatening female survivors with bullets and knives?

Institutional covert and overt misogyny?
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Also, she has had no training whatsoever in producing accessible documents. A nightmare of a layout, bad colour choice, tiny font and overly wordy. This will be very difficult for many to read.
 
She's not interested in accessibility. It was encouraged on the website, a lot, but it never happened. Remember when she did a crowd funder for £80k to get her resources translated. Loads of people offered to do it for free but she declined (which she laughably said no to because she wanted to 'pay people for their work') and instead set up a crowdfunder. I don't know how much money she made of the crowdfund, but the translated resources never appeared.
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The new website was supposed to come out after Christmas, but got pushed to spring. I bet because she's a nightmare to work with*

*I know she's a nightmare to work with
 
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‘Everything happens for a reason’ - or does it?
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Again thinking that swearing = authenticity and knowledge. Also Buddhism doesn't teach that sexual assault is a life lesson or a result of "karmic power" (karma mainly impacts on what happens to you after death) so she's either talking about abusers twisting someone's faith as a form of control, or more likely is just making tit up
 
The sweary aggressive thing is why she'd struggle as a clinical psychologist, she really struggles with empathy, kindness and compassion. It's always attack, attack, attack. Which might be OK if it was only aimed at the right things but it's aimed at anyone who just disagrees with her on twitter. If I saw her Twitter there's no way I'd trust her to act with compassion, I'd be scared to say anything she might take offense too (which is a lot).

She's said everything on that substack post so many times before. She seems to be regurgitating a lot of old crap at the moment. It seems to be hinting at Christian opinions eg everything happens for a reason, I have worked with women who struggled leaving DV because of the church and their faith being important to them. Natalie Collins is a brilliant DV activist who is also a Christian and written a lot of actually useful, supportive and knowledgeable stuff on helping women in this situation.
 
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