SUBJECT: PEOPLE REALLY DO HAVE SEX WITH SPACE ALIENS! FILE: UFO3374
BY JACK ALEXANDER for WWN
Cambridge, Mass. - Dr. John Mack was a well respected Harvard University
psychiatry professor until he began taling about treating patients who've had
sex with space aliens.
Now he is considered a quack by many of his high-brow colleagues who want to
kick him out of the prestigious Ivy League school.
"I've know John since the 1950s. He's a brilliant fellow who occasionally
loses it, and this time he's lost it big time," said Dr. Paul R. McHugh,
director of the department of psychiatry and behvioral sciences at Johns
Hopkins Hospital.
"John is saying there are people who have been abducted by aliens and need
treatment for it, and that is just outrageous," Dr. McHugh added.
Before he began talking about space aliens, Dr. Mack was respected Pulitzer
prize-winning professor at Harvard Medical School, woh founded the psychiatry
department at Cambridge Hospital, one of Harvard's teaching facilities.
But some of Dr. Mack's Harvard cronies wondered if he had lost his marbles
after he appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live and other talk
shows last year to promote his book, Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens.
The book's 13 case studies included 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.
It may have been the "talk show" publicity that inspired the Harvard Medical
Committee to investigate whether Dr. Mack's alien abduction research meets the
school's standards for scholarship.
They could applaud his alien research work or boot him out of school. Dean
Daniel Tosteson will make the decision based on the probe.
"History hasn't been kind to those who have unorthordox ideas," said attorney
Roderick MacLeish, who represents Dr. Mack. "That's the whole point of having
a free and open academic community. That's the whole purpose of tenure."
MacLeish says the medical commitee's action violates the principle of the
tenure system, which gives professors jobs for life so they can feel free to
pursue radical or unpopular research.
Dr. Mack, 65, told the Associated Press last year that he doesn't necessarily
believe in space aliens. But he can understand why his colleagues could find
his work troubling.
"We don't have room in our culture for this," he said. "It's the elite people,
my colleagues, who decide what we're supposed to believe, and to them this
isn't supposed to be."
A source close to the case, who didn't want to be identified, said that the
down-to-earth medical professors feel threatened by Dr. Mack's other world"
research.
"If Dr. Mack is right, it undercuts so much of the work of people over there,"
he said. "These people don't think anything is true unless they've got a
controlled study with rats."
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