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SUBJECT: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS FILE: UFO2236
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Newsweek
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4/11/94
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p. 79
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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A Harvard professor says aliens are real
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by Peter Plagens with Martha Brant
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Scientists are hard-line skeptics. Only after failing to debunk, say, the
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big bang do they accept the evidence. But in _Abduction: Human Encounters With
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Aliens_ (432 pages. Scribner's. $22), Harvard psychiatry professor John E. Mack
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makes only a cursory pass at disbelief before buying the idea that
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extraterrestrials are filching human sperm and ova in order to create better
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earthlings. Mack (who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for a biography of T.E.
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Lawrence) told NEWSWEEK in an interview, "I've racked my brains to discover an
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alternative explanation" for the accounts he heard of kinky kidnappings by
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aliens. He came up empty and boarded the interplanetary bandwagon at the first
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stop.
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Over the last three years, Mack has treated 76 people--housewives,
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musicians, businessmen--who claim aliens snatched them. "Abduction" looks at
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13 of the cases. All give similar details: a beam of light, a circular ship,
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big-eyed humanoids and often the services of an outer-space proctologist. "Ed"
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remembers being coolly seduced by a space succubus; he was a teenager at the
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time and had been asleep dreaming of girls. Catherine recalls being forcibly
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stripped and delivered of a half-alien fetus. Her earth job is a "nightclub
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receptionist." If warning bells haven't already gone off for the reader,
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"Edward Carlos's" baroque tale of "angels" and miracle cures should be Big Ben.
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In a footnote, Mack labels it a "literary collaboration" between psychiatrist
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and subject, but doesn't elaborate.
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_Green politics_: There's a lot Mack doesn't do. He failed to run standard
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psychological tests on more than a few subjects because it was too
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time-consuming and expensive. He says that little supporting forensic evidence
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can be found because the aliens' advanced technology is too "subtle." So why
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couldn't their technology clone humans from the DNA in a toenail, instead of
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dragging people to the mother ship for bondage and discipline? The aliens'
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green politics are also remarkably similar to Mack's; their agenda is to make a
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race that will stop polluting planet Earth. At one point, Mack concedes the
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aliens might merely hail from "some other reality" instead of outer space. If
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we ever do accept the existence of alien body snatchers, it will be in spite of
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Mack's book, not because of it.
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