I'm not critical of holding fringe
beliefs or expressing extreme perspectives. I'm critical of
purporting it to be scientific when it's not, and I'm critical of
demands to accept claims lacking conclusive evidence. The former is
at best incompetent and often likely dishonest, while the latter is
simply unreasonable.
I don't care what people choose to
believe. Neither do I have an agenda about personal testimonies. If
someone says something happened to them, so be it. It's their
prerogative to interpret their experiences how they choose.
My agenda is about being opposed to
sham inquiry, as Sharon Hill coined the term, the misrepresentation
of nonscientific activities as science. I'm also opposed to
researchers making assertions they can't back up with verifiable
facts.
The reason I am concerned about such
activities is because some people – some of those who publicly
shared their experiences and came to interpret them the ways they did
because of 'ufologists' – are being and have long been exploited by
the so-called researchers. So are members of the UFO community, the
people that financially support the organizations, the folks who buy
the resulting books, those who try to expand on the research (that was flawed
in the first place) and a lot of other people as well.
There may actually be phenomena of
interest at the heart of ufology and what has come to be called alien
abduction. However, it is a reasonable conclusion that the
circumstances have been manipulated, distorted and blatantly
misrepresented to the point of actuality being virtually impossible
to discern. The perpetrators include several demographics with an
even greater number of motives. Such demographics include charlatans,
individuals with good intentions but ultimately unhelpful because they were drawn
in by (and fell victim to) the rhetoric of the charlatans, the
intelligence community and others. The resulting lies, distortions
and misinformation were cultivated and spread for decades through
conferences, regional meetings and publishing houses.
We will never know how the present day
public at large would have interpreted perceptions of high strangeness if
it had not been so deeply conditioned to accept preconceived –
yet entirely unsubstantiated – conclusions. We will never know
because it already happened, thanks to demographics as just
mentioned, as well as the resulting bad television, bad
documentaries, influence of Hollywood, CIA propaganda and
manipulation of belief systems (similarly conducted by the KGB and
global IC), sensationalism within the UFO community, bad nonprofit orgs masquerading as scientific research groups,
philanthropists with unclear and suspect motives and so on. The
leading of the witness begins long before they ever meet the
hypnotist.
The bottom line on Mack, Hopkins,
Jacobs and all of them is that they can offer no conclusive evidence
whatsoever of their pet theories. At least Mack did not blatantly promote and defend premature and unsubstantiated conclusions to an entirely unreasonable extent, but the same cannot be said for the other two, Lamb,
Cannon and many more.
Unfortunately, people become hurt in
the crossfire, influenced (if not directly and intentionally led) to
believe themselves to be hybrids, influenced to believe they have parented
hybrids, influenced to believe they have been repeatedly kidnapped
and tortured (including sexually assaulted) by both human and
non-human beings, emotionally devastated, had copies of their case files - including hypnotic
regression recordings - sold without their knowledge and subsequently had
their trust deeply betrayed (see Carpenter Affair), and the list of trauma on top of trauma goes on and on.
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Meanwhile, there might actually be some
other types of circumstances of interest taking place, and some of the
origins of those circumstances might indeed be diverse and vast, while some
may be the covert operations of quite human technology, corporations
and agencies, among other potential explanations. Whatever the case may be from one specific incident to
the next, those committing sham inquiry are certainly not getting any
of us any closer to accurate understandings, and, more importantly,
they are adding to the list of hurt, humiliated and devastated
individuals already left trying to recover in the wake.
