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Pingaroonie

[kenavi]

Why “Humor”?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I thought Mack was dead. Maybe it was just brain-dead.

He was a big leftist in the anti-nuke, Nuclear Freeze movement in the 1980’s. Turned out that he was more of a liability than an asset to the Left.

[Gay State Conservative]

Might there be thinking beings elsewhere in the universe? I suppose it's not impossible.Assuming they exist have any of these beings been kidnapping...or bothering in any other way...humans? Highly....highly...HIGHLY...unlikely.

Far,far,FAR more likely that those claiming to have been "visited" have *very* serious psychiatric,or neuropsychiatric,conditions.

[muir_redwoods]

John Mack is not a freak, he's a serious scientist. Get a hold of a copy of Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind by C. D. B. Bryan. Bryan is a serious skeptic but he explains this phenomenon and comes away undecided. Personally I think it's some, as yet, undiagnosed mental illness but that doesn't make it any less strange.

[henkster]

I know I've seen his research assistant somewhere.....

[Larry381]

I was and am convinced that there is something going on in the world of so-called UFOs. This is only because of a sighting by my brother when he was a Marine radio operator in Japan. The sighting was seen for more than twenty minutes by hundreds of Marines at his air base as well as over twenty Japanese civilians in 1969.

While I was fairly convinced about UFOs I thought the alien abduction BS was just that-until I read John Mack's book, Abduction.
it is one of the most frightening books I have ever read and I consider Dr Mack a genuine hero for even writing it.

[Kevmo]

John Mack got his ass kicked by CSICOP when they planted a fake abductee in his study and he failed to ferret her out; in fact, Mack held up her story as exemplary.

[Nepeta]

I've read a lot about UFOs and alien abductions and have come to the conclusion that while it is unlikely that millions of people worldwide are being taken up into interstellar craft and being examined by extraterrestials.

But I also believe that most of the people who report abductions are not delusional and are not telling lies. They are experiencing something quite bizarre. I believe Jacques Vallee approaches the likely truth when he compares alien abductions to the folktales of humans venturing into Fairyland.