alicat said:

Do you seriously think Syfy or Pilgrim was following all this and called him?  Really?  I think they have better things to do. 

Yep – that's why they run the forum boards,  but it dosen't really matter which way the phone call went – the point is that Syfy gave him instructions on how to handle it.

If you were SyFy and you claim this is your biggest market maker, would you leave the important decisions in the hands of some plumber ?

As far as a conversation about bringing on a skeptic, creative conversations go on all the time and since he is a producer on the show, he could very well discuss this with Syfy as well as Pilgrim. 

So the question becomes would SyFy think it would be a good idea or a bad idea if they added a skeptic …. and we are supposed to think GH producer Jason would NOT abide by their wishes even if TAPS investigator Jason thought it would be a good technique ?

Doc,

I would think that Syfy/Pilgrim would defer to the judgment of Jason, Producer or Founder of TAPS.  Without Jason and his fellow TAPS members, GH would be dead in the water at the end of their contract and Syfy and Pilgrim would never be able to re-cast the show as successfully.  That is where Jason holds the cards.

And, if I was that plumber (although he hasn't been for many years now and how long is still questionable), I would certainly take the advice of any legal department and especially one who was writing my paycheck.  That's why there are legal departments for both Pilgrim and Syfy as I noted in a previous post when credits started to be given for their legal counsel at the end of each episode.  This is what I said before.  It's a worthless point discussing who releases what and who called who.  That is not what is at issue here and the truth known only by the parties of the conversation.  However, as I said, realistically Syfy would not have been monitoring this situation.  You can bet that Jason or someone in his sphere was made aware of this very quickly and he made the initial contacts for advice.  But, as I said, none of this addresses the issue at hand and until something is made public and, even then, only the issues at hand and not the peripheral factors of contact, will be addressed.  Until then, this is all conjecture and discussion which is pointless.