The first indication that Clancy really doesn't known much about what she seeked to dismiss, is that she now ventures into studying her past recovery of childhood sexual abuse.
One might also claim that anybody who alleges they had been victims of childhood sexual abuse, were simply suffering from a mental condition. Now consider the person who actually believes that, then discovers they are pregnant. Such evidence would tend to give the victim good justification that their experience was more than a vivid imagination.
Likewise in the realm of 'alien abductions', there are experiences reported that are endemic of spiritual warfare where physcial and soulish domains are also involved.
I suspect there are probably a fair shar or maybe even a great share of false reports for any number of psychological reasons, but those who dismiss all such reports also will dismiss a considerable amount of truthfully reported experience, which isn't necessarily good for nothing.
Not sure why you think the researcher dismisses all reports of recovered sexual abuse? The article suggests some reason for skepticism, that such 'recovered' memories are less reliable than memories of those who have always known and remembered their abuse. But I didn't see where Clancy gives any indication that she is trying to dismiss all possibility of such recovered memories; so far she's just saying that there may be other explanations and that the process in which such memories are 'recovered' may (sometimes, often?) corrupt said 'memories'.
Anyway, I believe (though I claim no expertise) that a lot of the "recovered memory" movement has been found to be unreliable and some wrongful convictions have been overturned?? That doesn't mean that no one ever experiences such trauma that memories can be deeply suppressed..... I really don't know.
Actually, this is the theory that I adhere to. No, I don't believe that aliens are "probing" us on a regular basis. I do believe in demons and spiritual attack.
Many people on this thread and "pooh-poohing" the whole alien abduction idea as a leftist delusional paranoia, but how is this different than the many of us on the right who believe in angels and demons?
The more pragmatic FReepers can deny it all they want, but there is some weird crap out there.