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“The only category in which such a machine could belong is UFOs, so that is what Bowyer deduced he saw.”
“This is impossible with a UFO mystery, because there are no actual clues to follow.”
“An insane person is terrifyingly alone with his hallucinations; an alien abductee belongs to a supportive, if marginal, community that regards his experiences as real and important.”
“Being convinced that hostile aliens can snatch up human beings and torture them at will might not sound very comforting.”
“And in politics and medicine, as with UFOs, much of the public chose to reject the judgment of experts.”
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“By the same token, nothing is more insulting and infuriating than being told you are mistaken about your own experiences.”
“On one occasion, he writes, he was anally probed with an “enormous and extremely ugly object, gray and scaly, with a sort of network of wires on the end.”
“Yet when Britons went to the polls two days later, almost 52 percent voted Leave.”
“Yet in May 2023, when they had been available for about two years, a Pew Research Center survey found that only 62 percent of the public believed that the benefits of COVID vaccines outweighed the risks.”
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“The decline reflected growing mistrust of public health experts who had fought the pandemic with unpopular measures like lockdowns, school closures, and mask mandates.”
“Instead, catharsis is achieved when the rip in the fabric of reality caused by the UFO sighting is repaired, allowing the world to make sense again.”
“There is no doubt that COVID vaccines were safe and effective, saving lives while helping to bring the pandemic to an end.”
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“A parent’s refusal to vaccinate could lead to a child getting COVID or measles; a parent’s belief that UFOs exist does not heighten a child’s chances of being abducted by aliens.”
“Strieber recalls being so desperate that when someone happened to mention Hopkins’s interest in abduction stories, he looked Hopkins up in the phone book and went to his apartment, where he proceeded to pour out his memories for the first time.”
“The meaning of an experience comes into being when a community of people agrees that it has that meaning, just as sounds become words only when a community of speakers agrees on the meaning of those words.”
“But for Strieber, it is easier to cope with such a threat than with the suspicion that he is insane.”