Oh, that's going to make me sleep a LOT better tonight.
Well, if it makes you feel any better, actually at the time she suggested it she was suspicious of Algore. Her theory was that the alien who had taken over Algore was having a hard time emulating the behavior of a human, which accounted for Algore's complete stiffness and woodenness, constant invention and reinvention of himself and his past (since the alien didn't really have a past here on earth, he was having a hard time being consistent in emulating an Earth past).
Pleasant dreams...