Word: macked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...review began after Mack appeared on "Unsolved Mysteries" and other television programs to promote his 1994 book Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens, about his treatment of 120 patients who said aliens took them away in spaceships for sexual experiments...
...Mack, 65, was traveling yesterday and could not be contacted, according to an assistant. He said last year that he does not necessarily believe in space aliens, but thinks that only some unknown traumatic experience--and not a mental illness--can explain his patients' memories...
...When case after case after case, these consistent stories occur, it became clear to me that this, although mysterious, was a robust phenomenon," Mack told The Crimson in April...
...special faculty committee investigatedwhether Mack's work conformed with professionalstandards and whether it could be consideredresearch on human subjects, which requires specialpermission from the University...
However, in a statement, the medical school didsay that Dean Daniel C. Tosteson, in a meetingwith Mack, had "reaffirmed [his] academic freedomto study what he wishes and to state his opinionswithout impediment...