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- Abduction Digest, Number 8
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- Monday, April 8th 1991
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- Today's Topics:
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- Re: Abduction Research
- Re: Abduction Research
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- From: Elizabeth.Anderson@p0.f30.n134.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Elizabeth Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Abduction Research
- Date: 6 Apr 91 04:04:00 GMT
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- Hello, Jim. I was very interested in your message here about the possible
- connection between sexual abuse/abduction claims.
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- I have been interested for the last few years in the whole 'satanism'
- phenomena, and have noticed many parallels between abduction claims and the
- claims made by 'satanic ritual child abuse survivors'. I have been
- corresponding with Dr. Robert Baker, a professor of psychology at the
- University of Kentucky on this subject and he recently suggested that I look
- into getting a book called "Sexual Abuse Hysteria: the Salem Witch Trials
- revisited" by Richard A. Gardner. You might find this interesting reading as
- well.
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- Are you familiar with a book called 'Anomalistic Psychology' by Zusne and
- Jones? It is truly a book every skeptic and every 'believer' should read.
- The mind really is a very strange place.
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- Elizabeth
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- From: Jim.Speiser@f37.n114.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
- Subject: Re: Abduction Research
- Date: 6 Apr 91 22:03:00 GMT
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- > Hello, Jim. I was very interested in your message here about the
- > possible connection between sexual abuse/abduction claims.
- >
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- Hi, Elizabeth. The message actually wasn't from me, but from Keith
- Basterfield, who is a leading UFO and abduction researcher in Australia. It
- was Keith who was among the first to suggest such a connection. I cross-posted
- the message to Abductions, where I thought it also belonged.
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- I am familiar with the book you cited, but I have not yet had a chance to pick
- it up. Interestingly enough, I am currently involved in researching one
- abduction case right now, but sexual abuse does not seem to be a factor, nor
- does any childhood trauma. (Please request the file LYDIA331.TXT from my
- system for an interim report on the progress of this case.)
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- I am also familiar with Dr. Baker, having met him briefly in Lincoln, NE in
- 1988. He impressed me as someone who has long ago made up his mind that
- Fantasy Prone Personality is the culprit in abductions, and writes about the
- subject with a degree of vitriole and scorn that is quite unbecoming of a
- scientist. So far, in the few studies I'm aware of, including one being
- conducted by CUFOS as we speak, there is no real indication of a connection
- between FPP and abductions. That is not to say that one may not show up in the
- future, when a more statistically significant segment of the affected
- population has been screened. But it is certainly too early to draw any
- conclusions, as Dr. Baker seems to have done.
-
- Jim
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