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From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:56:31 +0100
Fwd Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:55:56 -0400
Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins And The Big Lie


>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>Subject: Budd Hopkins And The Big Lie
>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 99 21:16:10 PDT

>Listfolk:

>Recently we have read charges on this list that Budd Hopkins
>hypnotizes children while pursuing research into UFO-abduction
>reports.  I have had deep doubts about this very serious
>allegation, which runs contrary to everything I know and have
>observed about Budd's ethics, judgment, and sensitivity to
>others.

>As some of you are aware, Budd does not have e-mail.  I have,
>however, just heard from my friend David M. Jacobs, who does.
>Even more astonished than I to read these fantastic claims, he
>phoned Budd to ask about them. Jacobs informs me -- not
>surprisingly, to those of us who know Budd -- that Hopkins has
>_never_ conducted hypnosis with children. Nor, for that matter,
>has Jacobs.

>In other words, we've been at the receiving end of the Big Lie.
>Those who have passed it on, innocently if recklessly, owe Budd
>Hopkins an apology. Those who knew or suspected it was a lie but
>circulated it anyway are beyond redemption.  The former are
>urged, in the name of common decency, to apologize publicly.
>This list would be a good place to do it.

>Jerry Clark

Hi,

I don't know where the Budd does hypnosis on children story
began. But like Peter Brookesmith I was at the l993 Sheffield
where Budd lectured and I got the same impression he says that
he did from Budd's presentation there. Indeed, I was actually
interviewed about this very point by a BBC radio programme that
was at the conference and interviewed many of the speakers and
audience. They clearly picked up on the same misunderstanding so
it must have been widespread.

I recall at MIT how Budd was showing the way he worked with
children - using identikit pictures of clowns, aliens, etc mixed
together. So i knew he worked with young children. Perhaps the
misunderstanding came from that given that he uses hypnosis as
part of his normal methodology. But it was also certainly
stimulated on whatever he said in his Sheffield lecture. Perhaps
the organisers (some are on this list) have a transcript of the
talk and we can figure out why this impression was given.

In any case, as I have said repeatedly, I have no personal
doubts at all about Budd's sincerity and compassion for his
witnesses. I have seen it at work and utterly respect him for
it. My concerns are over hypnosis, regardless of the age of the
witness. But I unreservedly apologise to Budd as suggested since
I was certainly one of those under the impression Budd did use
regression with children and I am delighted to know this is not
the case.

Jenny Randles