Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...objects are on the 25,000 videotapes that our members have sent in from their home camcorders?" Some took a lighter view, among them Donald M. ("I am not Mork") Sensing of - Burke, Virginia, who claims to be the offspring of a union between an earthling and a space alien. He warned us to print his letter, or "expect to take a little trip...
There is a guy named John Mack going around to TV talk shows in our area flogging a book titled "Abduction. " He is accompanied by three or four "alien abduction" fantasizers. He claims to be a distinguished "Harvard University Psychchiatrist." Is this true? If so can you explain how your University can rationalize the maintenance of this ignorant charlatan on the teaching staff? Ray Blessin
...million people have had at least some abduction- related experiences, such as seeing unusual lights or missing time. "Until John came along, there wasn't enough credibility for this subject to support a methodological investigation," says Caroline McLeod, Mack's research chief. "Until now, if you decided to research alien abductions, you risked being pigeonholed as a lunatic...
...otherworldly encounters involving her family, going back to the 11th century. Her great-grandmother, she said, saw "little people," whom she called angels from God. Bassett herself saw "balls of light" around her house at age five. She also said that as a child she had a space-alien friend named Jane, who healed her hands after a neighbor stuck them in boiling fudge to punish her for snooping...
...insult to those of us who have forced over $80,000 for the honor of the Veritas stamp was compounded by the fact that Dr. Mack's particular appearance was calculated to give a veneer of respectability to tales of alien abduction. Alien abduction, the one canard of vacuous day-time info-tainment that not even its trailer-park-bound viewership beats with a straight face...