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Clancy is bracing for a fresh round of hate mail with her new book, Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens, published by Harvard University Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
From the Canadian National Post<\/a><\/p>\n
I don’t blame her–those pesky aliens are everywhere!<\/p>\n
But it’s not the aliens causing her problems is it?<\/p>\n
No no! It’s the believers<\/strong> in aliens!<\/p>\n
Good, old fashioned people.<\/p>\n
People who need aliens!<\/p>\n
They’re the luckiest people in the world.<\/p>\n
Because, people, people who need aliens.<\/p>\n
Can just close their eyes and imagine aliens, they can imagine aliens all night long!<\/p>\n
People like Clancy are sad! They can’t imagine aliens. But they do know something about psychology. Clancy is sad because she wants to believe in aliens! She wants to believe people who need aliens. But the people who need aliens can’t prove that they hav seen aliens. They can’t prove that aliens interrupted their sleep. She can’t prove that aliens took them aboard their alien spacecraft and submitted them to all kinds of embarrassing medical procedures. She can’t prove it but they believe. And belief is all a person needs, a person who needs aliens. The aliens are right there! So long as you believe!<\/p>\n
She can’t prove it and now she must suffer! She must pay for her unbelief. She must be ridiculed and lambasted. Hate-mail must flood her inbox.<\/p>\n
Hate mail from people.<\/p>\n
People who need aliens.<\/p>\n
The luckiest people in the world!<\/p>\n
Many of the abductees also could be described as “spiritual people” who have abandoned conventional religious beliefs, McNally added. “The people convinced of this are getting genuine spiritual payoff,” he said. “To encounter a naturalistic account of it is deeply offensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yes; we get back to the old belief issue. If people want to believe in space aliens, bigfoots, chupa-bizaros or the Easter Bunny that’s certainly their prerogative. Heck I’d even be respectful! But people! Don’t shoot the messenger just because they found some other explanation in the small group of people they studied.<\/strong><\/p>\n
I haven’t read the book yet but I would be willing to bet that Clancy never makes any kind of proclamation that ETs exist, or bigfoots or ghosts or anything else.<\/p>\n
However, Clancy learned it was impossible to categorically disprove alien abductions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’\u00a2s not possible to prove it either. So where is the argument? Where are all the ruffled feathers? Where does all the emotion come from? The nasty letters? The threats?<\/p>\n
People people who need aliens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Clancy is bracing for a fresh round of hate mail with her new book, Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens, published by Harvard University Press. From the Canadian National Post I don’t blame her–those pesky … Continue reading