========== mail/messages #74, from Elizabeth.Anderson@p0.f30.n134.z1.FIDON, 4776 chars, 6 Apr 91 04:04:00 GMT ---------- Received: from k30hslxsys by muse.compulink.co.uk id aa29428; 15 Apr 91 12:45 GMT Received: from kestrel.ukc.ac.uk by bugs.specialix.co.uk id aa00058; Mon, 15 Apr 91 11:42:31 BST\ Received: from mcsun by kestrel.Ukc.AC.UK via EUnet with authorised UUCP id aa22614; 15 Apr 91 11:41 BST Received: from [128.255.64.3] by mcsun.EU.net with SMTP; id AA29269 (5.65a/CWI-2.81); Mon, 15 Apr 91 12:27:19 +0200 Received: from shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu by ns-mx.uiowa.edu (5.64/910327) on Mon, 15 Apr 91 04:39:34 -0500 id AA24070 with SMTP Received: from boulder.Colorado.EDU by shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu (5.61.jnf/891218) on Mon, 15 Apr 91 04:38:38 -0500 id AA09690 with SMTP Received: from scicom.UUCP by boulder.Colorado.EDU with UUCP id AA01328 (5.65+/cu-ida-1.3.5 for abdlist@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu); Mon, 15 Apr 91 03:38:30 -0600 Received: by scicom.alphacdc.com (smail2.5) id AA11059; 8 Apr 91 14:38:06 MDT (Mon) To: abdlist@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu Subject: Abduction Digest Message-Id: <9104081438.AA11059@scicom.alphacdc.com> Date: 8 Apr 91 14:38:06 MDT (Mon) From: Abduction Moderator Apparently-To: tprinn Abduction Digest, Number 8 Monday, April 8th 1991 Today's Topics: Re: Abduction Research Re: Abduction Research ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Elizabeth.Anderson@p0.f30.n134.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Elizabeth Anderson) Subject: Re: Abduction Research Date: 6 Apr 91 04:04:00 GMT Hello, Jim. I was very interested in your message here about the possible connection between sexual abuse/abduction claims. 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. 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. Elizabeth -- Elizabeth Anderson - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Elizabeth.Anderson@p0.f30.n134.z1.FIDONET.ORG -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jim.Speiser@f37.n114.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser) Subject: Re: Abduction Research Date: 6 Apr 91 22:03:00 GMT > Hello, Jim. I was very interested in your message here about the > possible connection between sexual abuse/abduction claims. > 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. 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.) 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 -- Jim Speiser - via FidoNet node 1:104/422 UUCP: !scicom!paranet!User_Name INTERNET: Jim.Speiser@f37.n114.z1.FIDONET.ORG ****************A**B**D**U**C**T**I**O**N****D**I**G**E**S**T******************* Submissions UUCP {ncar,isis,boulder}!scicom!abduct Submissions DOMAIN abduct@scicom.alphacdc.com Admin Address abduct-request@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu ****************A**B**D**U**C**T**I**O**N****D**I**G**E**S**T*******************