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From: Kevin Randle <KRandle993@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:19:21 EDT
Fwd Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:32:34 -0400
Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins


>From: Roger Evans <moviestuff@cyberjunkie.com>
>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:15:00 +0000
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins


>>From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
>>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 99 19:58:05 PDT
>>Fwd Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:48:32 -0400
>>Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins

>>>From: Jenny Randles <nufon@currantbun.com>
>>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>>Subject: Re: Budd Hopkins
>>>Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:37:44 +0100

>Previously Jenny had offered:

>>>Dennis is absolutely right. The day when a
>>>genuine researcher gets into serious legal difficulties as a
>>>result of hypnotic regression is a racing certainty. It may not
>>>be Budd. It could be anyone. But it will happen and, I'm afraid,
>>>UFOlogy will be rightly hauled over the coals by the media for
>>>allowing it to get that far.

>Hello all,

<snip>

>Likewise, we can only hope that Jenny's concerns about impending
>lawsuits against ufologists are well founded. Why? Because, for
>damages to be proven, the "memories" dredged up by the use of
>hypnosis would have to be accepted (at some point) as fact; not
>only by the "victim" but by the courts as well.

Not quite true. Richard Boylan has already been taken to court
because of his "abduction research." He lost his license to
practice in California because of it. It proved nothing about
the reality of UFOs or abductions, but did demonstrate, at least
some of the problems with hypnotic regression and researcher
bias.

I haven't even mentioned all those who believe in Satanic Ritual
Abuse, who told horrifying tales both with and without hypnosis,
and who in turn sued the doctors for malpractice. I believe that
it was just announced that one "victim" won $2 million in a
lawsuit in Illinois with more to follow.

KRandle, Ph.D.
http://www.randlereport.com