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REALL 1995 V03N07

6 articles
Issue at a Glance
Articles
6
Content Types
Article, Editorial
Contributors
David Bloomberg, Gale Richard Walker

Articles in This Issue

They aren't buying it.
Article

"With all due respect, doctor. Everyone knows there are people who gravitate to this kind of thing. They read about it, see it on TV, in the movies. This is the pathology of a space-age psychosis. People don't see the Virgin Mary anymore -now they see alien baby snatchers." The psychiatrist is prepa

"With all due respect, doctor. Everyone knows there are people who gravitate to this kind of thing. They read about it,
Article

see it on TV, in the movies. This is the pathology of a space-age psychosis. People don't see the Virgin Mary anymore -now they see alien baby snatchers." The psychiatrist is prepared. "Robert Lifton's work on survivors -- we've all studied Lifton -- the people that he writes about -- the survivors

The exchange is from the 1992 mini-series Intruders. The visionary and skeptic are fictional, but the argument is
Article

familiar enough. John Mack, the Harvard psychiatry professor who authored the controversial book Abduction was not the inspiration for the Richard Creena character, but the writer admitted it "ends up being more like John Mack than anybody." Mack said it was kind of spooky how things in it happened

Editorializing in the January/February 1987 International UFO Reporter Jerome Clark observed, "A milestone of sorts
Editorial

may have been reached on April 10, 1987, when Dr. Robert J. Lifton, one of this country's most prominent psychiatrists, acknowledged on NBC's Today Show that the UFO abduction phenomenon has yet to be explained and merits serious investigation." In the October 1988 Fate, he regarded Lifton's stateme

The Foxes of Skepticism
David Bloomberg · Article

The Running Dogs of Loyalty: Honest Reflections on a Magical Zoo, The front cover of the pre-release copy Dr. Walker sent me says, "for those over 30 only," but I went ahead and read it anyway. I'm quite glad that I didn't heed the "warning" and read through this extremely well-written satire.

Honest Reflections on a Magical Zoo,
Gale Richard Walker · Article

The front cover of the pre-release copy Dr. Walker sent me says, "for those over 30 only," but I went ahead and read it anyway. I'm quite glad that I didn't heed the "warning" and read through this extremely well-written satire. As you may know (or as you will know if you look at the back page of th

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