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...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...
Early this week, Dartboard's diligent TV writer was flipping channels (and only flipping, mind you, not, heaven forbid, watching ) he caught a most curious dialogue on Oprah. A man grimly recounted the details of his alien abduction. It was tame fare for the voluminous queen of daytime trash, nothing all out of the ordinary...
...that wasn't tall. For who can talk of Veritas without the ratification of one of the Veritas' high priests--a Harvard Medical School Professor of Psychiatry, assured the audience in clam academic terms that alien abductions are undeniably common. The aliens, according to his research, are particularly interested in why we humans are so full of hostility, when we have such "a nice planet." This leads Dartboard to pose a corollary question--if our planet in truly so "nice," why doesn't Dr. Mack join us here on its surface rather than dilly-dallying around Cloud Nine...
...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...
...right of native-birth citizenship is rare," Brimelow said. "Even Mexico has highly restrictive immigration laws. If you want to become a resident alien in Mexico, you must apply in person in Mexico City...