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From: John Rimmer <magonia@magonia.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:25:54 +0100
Fwd Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:13:53 -0400
Subject: Re: Satanic Abuse


>From: Greg Sandow <gsandow@prodigy.net>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Satanic Abuse
>Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:57:57 -0400

>>Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:48:01 +0100
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>From: John Rimmer <magonia@magonia.demon.co.uk>
>>Subject: Re: Satanic Abuse

>>Oh, come on, is this serious? Statistical data on wrecked lives?
>>No anecdotes (i.e. actual examples of wrecked lives)? I can
>>assure you that lives have been wrecked by claims of Satanic
>>Ritual Abuse - anecdotes only, sorry, as unfortunately for some
>>peculiar reason no-one seems to be collecting percentages of
>>"wrecked lives" as opposed to "slightly concerned lives",
>>"rather worried lives", or "terribly upset lives". Maybe the
>>Office of Population and Statistics could put a question in
>>their 2001 Census.

>Delightful, John. If, ever in the future, you whisper even a
>hint that any UFO believer is unscientific, I trust you'll blush
>the deepest, most embarrassed red.

>Statistics on wrecked lives? No, statistics on abduction
>research. Or at least information about it. For instance: "I've
>had the opportunity to observe 20 people who've worked with an
>abduction investigator who does regressive hypnosis in stadiums
>during football games. After knowing these 20 people for more
>than a year, I've watched 14 of them become the worst kind of
>football hooligans."

>At least something like that, for God's sake. Not just bland
>general allegations. Another way to put this, John, is that I'm
>asking how large your sample is, when you say "remember that
>[abduction] claims can wreck people's lives." How many
>abductees, even approximately, do you imagine you know anything
>about, and what percentage of them ruined their lives?

>If you can't answer a question like that, you're just gossiping.

>Greg Sandow

And this from someone who admitted just a few months ago that
abduction researchers don't even have statistics on what
proportion of their subjects are Black, White or Hispanic.

--
John Rimmer
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