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This is probably the single most serious issue, with the most potentially damaging implications, that has emerged from these developments. If Rainey's accusations are legitimate, the next step is determining when Hopkins began to fall prey to his own credulity. Did he screen potential subjects...

Agreed. While I've stressed the importance of understanding the limits of conventional research, it's clear that such research--when conducted responsibly--is capable of producing the most consistently reliable insight available to us before it reaches those limits. Scientific illiteracy is a...

So do I, but the matter is complex. If her claims of anomalous experience are the result of a known mental illness that could and should have been diagnosed and treated, then her psychologist failed her. But if she has in fact undergone genuinely anomalous experience, then I don't know if any...

This is a well-articulated call for a re-evaluation of what passes for evidence in researching anomalous phenomena. In this and previous posts, you bring a powerful critical acuity to bear on some suspect assumptions that pollute the field. Having said that, however, I think it is also...

You're very welcome. I agree that the prose style exhibits many of the qualities that make much academic writing borderline unreadable, but unfortunately writing in that mode seems to be a prerequisite to being taken seriously by the academic establishment. I wonder if those who demand that...

In my view, Derrida and the UFO serve a similar antisystemic function within their respective systems. Both seem to resist scholarly efforts to collapse them to some easily definable, ultimate truth. They are both Trickster figures who frustrate the continuing function of the systems into...

Those of you who have read all the way through Leslie Kean's UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record will have read a condensed version of Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall's UFO paper from Political Theory. The full version, in which they theoretically contextualize...

There was a very interesting exchange between Bullard, Dennis Stillings, and Hilary Evans in MAGONIA in the early 90's. The debate centered around whether variations between individual abduction reports constitute evidence for or against the objective reality of those reports, as well as...

Terry Matheson, Professor Emeritus, English Department of the University of Saskatchewan, is the author of "Alien Abductions: Creating a Modern Phenomenon." In this book, Matheson uses narrative theory to trace the development of abduction accounts into a fully realized postmodern mythology...