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Abductions and Aliens

The website of the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) has been updated with the addition of two interesting (and quite long) essays related to the question of alien life. The first is titled “Brane Worlds, the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conjecture” (PDF file), and despite the incomprehensibility of that introduction proves to be a very interesting discussion of the need to stop imposing human qualities on possible alien races.

The second is more related to abductions than aliens, contemplating the similarities that both ‘alien abduction’ and ‘satanic ritual abuse’ groups have to novel religious movements (NRMs). This piece, written by professor of sociology Christopher D. Bader, got quite a bit of news coverage a couple of weeks ago when he released his findings. The essay is titled “Supernatural Support Groups: Who are the UFO Abductees and Ritual Abuse Survivors?”

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  1. Real vs. Imagined abduction
    It is a pity that “abduction wannabees”, who “remembered” something in a hypnotist’s office are spoiling the show. They are providing a huge stockpile of ammunition for skeptics.

    Nearly everything I read about the subject nowadays looks at the “hypnotic induced memory” as the standard. What they SHOULD be looking at is the vastly smaller number of REAL abductees – the ones that did not need any sort of hypnosis, meditation, psychic reading or “channeling” in order to “refresh” their memories.

    It is these people who can help the most, in whom the evidence is most compelling (they are either bald face lying, seriously psychotic, or it really happened). I myself know two such people well. They had their experiences in person, in full waking consciousness, in their real physical body. They remembered the experience from the git-go (wouldn’t you?!) just like you would remember a traffic accident or a ball game you went to. The last thing they needed or wanted was to go see a famous psychic or pendulum swinger to figure it out what happened, for Christ’s sake.

    After hearing about such real experiences, the wannabees of the world quickly multiplied, made appointments with their psychics, and now outnumber the real abductees probably 1,000 to one.

    C’mon, SICOP and all you other debunkers, stop chickening out and limiting your research only to them. – Dashour.

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