Remember, the human brain does not want to be shamed or die. And most brains would rather die than be shamed. So, although the above mentioned scientist is applauded by her colleagues at this point in time, in the future (if anyone remembers her work), she will not enjoy the same appraisal.

That is the crux of ‘pataphysics: the science of governing the properties of exceptions to the rule.

“Noooooo its not torture! It’s using extensive necessary methods to protect our freedom from evil terrorists!”

And what about the word “terrorism?” When the US CIA blows up a car in front of a mosque to kill a “terrorist” Imam in Beirut (and misses the target), it isn’t terrorism, it is “protecting our freedom using whatever means necessary.” When we help a guerilla regime blow up cars in Afghanistan, they aren’t terrorists, they’re “freedom fighters.” Stand up against linguistic tyranny! Don’t let the archons use our memes against us!

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said,…”it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

To complicate matters, its been proven that under hypnosis people tend to dream up all sorts of “memories” of things that didn’t happen, depending on how the hypnotists “begs” the retrieval. Who the heck knows how many of these abduction stories retrieved from hypnosis are bunk and how many are real?

Clancy betrays a limited imagination by writing a book on the assumption that these experiences are FALSE in light of no evidence. She has just as much freaking hard evidence as the people who demand them to be absolutely true: none. This is begging the question in the truest sense: she is proving aliens don’t exist on a method that relies on an assumption that aliens don’t exist.

The reports from ABu Ghraib and elsewhere of interrogations which centre around the interrogators showing a detainee a picture of a phone asking them what it is and screaming at them that it is a bomb when they answer correctly as well as the presence there of ‘doctors’ and psychologists is perhaps an obvious example but there are many others in other areas.

If you think about it, the abduction mythos is something built on a similar framework - someone sees something anomalous (whether this thing is ‘placed’ there by someone or is ‘real’ is irrelevant) and obviously this is a ’shock’ out of their experience (this would be paralleled by finding oneself detained) and then someone in power - an ‘expert - attempts to convince them that the experience is other than what they know or believe it to be (this is not a phone/ghost/alien) etc.

If you look you can see this process everywhere. It is particularly prevalent in advertising where the images of ‘enlightenment’ and spirituality are pressed into service in the cause of the most unlikely products - but always twisted 180 degrees in the process.

I’m sure one could find other connections in the realm of false memory for those who have knowledge of that area. I strongly suspect that all these things are connected and are somehow ‘managed’.