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The Threat
"The Secret Agenda: What the Aliens Really Want... and How They Plan to Get It"
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By David Jacobs
Price: $23.00
Item Code: TheThreat
Postage Code: book2
287 Pages, Hardcover
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Simon & Schuster, 1998
ISBN: 0-684-81484-6
Added to Catalog: 4/22/98
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Features: Table of Contents, Index, Footnotes
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Campbell's Ratings
Credibility
2
Low |
Research Value
3
Moderate |
Cultural Interest
4
High |
Visual Information
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None |
Style
3
Moderate |
Silliness
4
High |
Wow Factor
NR
Not Rated |
Bargain
3
Moderate |
| Credibility: This catagory is a rating of the author's intellectual discipline
and the strength of his argument (which are low), not the veracity of his claims (which could be true in spite of the weak argument). |
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David Jacobs thinks he knows the alien agenda,
and it ain't friendly. The visitors are breeding alien-human
hybrids and aim to take over our planet....
and there's nothing we can do about it!
Jacobs represents the pessimistic end of the
abduction research spectrum.
The trouble is, he is working from the same thin evidence
as everyone else: abductee testimony retrieved through hypnosis.
As a professor of history, not psychology, Jacobs doesn't bring
us any closer to proving that these supposed memories are
real. Jacobs mentions the opposing theories, such
as false memory syndrome, but doesn't effectively address
them. Most of the witnesses are anonymous, of course,
so there isn't much that the rest of us can do to investigate.
All of this makes us wonder:
If the situation is inevitable, unprovable and hopeless,
why worry? Why can't Jacobs just be happy?
-- Glenn
Reservations
This book doesn't differ much from other abduction books
except in its pessimistic appraisal and punchy literary
style.
However, it is probably the easiest abduction book to read,
since it doesn't dwell too long on any one witness.
Comparison to Other Books
This is probably the best book for conveying the "gloom & doom"
school of abduction research.
For a more neutral approach, see
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.
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Information from the Publisher |
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From the Book Jacket...
"In my most recent research, I have uncovered information
that allows UFO researchers to solve the UFO mystery --
at least the questions that will have the greatest impact
upon us. I have put many pieces of the puzzle together.
I have focussed the picture, and I do not like what I see.
For the first time in over thirty years of researching the
UFO phenomenon, I am frightened of it.
Understanding... has lead to a
profound apprehension for the future. The abduction
phenomenon is far more ominous than I had thought...
I know why the aliens are here -- and what the human consequences will
be if their mission is successful."
-- Professor David M. Jacobs
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
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