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From: Dennis Stacy <dstacy@texas.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:04:55 -0500
Fwd Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:46:30 -0400
Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins


>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
>Date: Wed, 16 Jun 99 20:17:40 PDT

>I think I've committed what some consider the ultimate heresy:
>speaking well of Budd Hopkins.  Sorry, Dennis. You know my views
>on the Roper poll.


Jerry,

If you're a heretic, so am I. See my reply to John Velez for
kind words about Budd.

That said, your feelings (and mine, as well as those of
countless others) about the Roper poll "findings" (down, BTW, in
the last reiteration of same) seem to hold little or no sway
with Budd himself, who still considers it scientifically
significant.

It's like one of those computer viruses you hear so much about.
Budd gives it to Jacobs and Mack, and, before you know it,
American society as a whole is infected with the bug: Millions
of Americans are being routinely abducted by aliens on an annual
basis (I read it in the Roper Report!), never mind that there
isn't a shred of evidence for such a claim. (The numbers, not
the phenomenon.) Pretty soon you get books like "The Threat" and
Mack's forthcoming second contribution (and God only knows what
its title will be, although The Threat will be hard to top.
Maybe "The Promise"?).

Is it a meme, Memorex, myth, or reality?

Who knows?

But we do know who's responsible for promoting the Roper poll's
so-called scientific stature, don't we? Even in the face of such
friendly criticism as yours.

But I forget: Budd is above criticism. And to criticize would
represent something resembling heresy, wouldn't it?

Dennis