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subject: John Mack.
Date: 6 May 95 03:29:05 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:2430/2112.3 - The Temples o, Springfield IL
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Article from The Orlando Sentinel, May 5, 1995.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A year ago, Harvard psychiatrist John Mack
cruised the talk show circuit promoting his best-selling book about
people who say they had sex with aliens.
Now, a committee of colleagues is investigating whether Mack's alien
abduction research meets the school's standards for scholarship.
The Harvard Medical Committee expects to complete its report within
two months. Based on the peer review, the dean, Dr. Daniel Tosteson,
will make a decision that could range from trying to oust Mack to
applauding his perseverance in doing work his colleaques might call
quackery.
Attorney Roderick MacLeish, representing Mack during the review, said
Harvard's action violates the principle of the tenure system, which
gives professors jobs for life so they can feel free to pursue radi-
cal or unpopular research.
"History has not been kind to those who have unorthodox ideas,"
MacLeish said Thursday. "That's the whole point of having a free and
open academic community. That's the whole purpose of tenure."
Before he started talking about space aliens, Mack was a respected
professor at Harvard Medical School. He founded the psychiatry
department at Cambridge Hospital, one of Harvard's teaching
facilities. He won a 1977 Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Lawrence
of Arabia.
Mack drew a different kind of notoriety for the book Abduction: Human
Encounters With Aliens, about his treatment of patients who say little
gray space creatures kidnapped them and took them away in flying
saucers for sexual experiments.
The book's 13 case studies include Ed, who remembers an alien woman
taking a sperm sample from him when he was in high school; Jerry, who
says she gave birth to a human-alien hybrid; and Peter, who tells
Mack he had an "alien wife" in a "parallel universe."