Abducted by Aliens-- the Strange Case of Dr. John Mack (and Dr. Susan Clancy)

This article on John Mack is fascinating. 

Personally, I think some people have indeed been abducted physically by aliens, onto ET spaceships. But other people may rather have been "psychologically abducted" by ETs. I think Mack was amazing to actually keep an open mind about this and to go against mainstream science in his investigation. And what a tragedy that he was killed in such a freak accident (which any conspiracy theorist has to wonder about).

What particularly annoys me is Susan Clancy, who sort of took over Mack's work at Harvard and soon decided that all abduction victims were imagining things. She actually had no proof of this at all, except that she decided there was no such thing as UFOs or ETs and thus these people were just making shit up. I read her book, "Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens", and it was incredibly frustrating.  Now, sure, some people who think they were abducted may be hoaxers or were just deluded in some strange way. But not all cases can be written off.

Clancy more recently, has written a newer book--

...The Trauma Myth, in which she suggests that child sexual abuse is rarely a traumatic experience for the victims at the time it occurs, and is instead described by victims as confusing. She argues that later in life, after the memories are processed, examined, and more fully understood, the experience becomes traumatic. 

Clancy writes in “The Trauma Myth” that when she arrived at Harvard in 1996, the trauma theory held that “a child will only participate in abuse if forced, threatened, or explicitly coerced” (p. 41). Then she interviewed victims and learned, “They did not fight it. It was not done against their will. They went along... only 5% tried to stop it” (p. 41). Clancy concludes that since sexual abuse of children is not violent per se, the millions of victims who did not experience their sex abuse as traumatic grapple with crippling thoughts of shame, embarrassment, and self-blame, thus compounding their suffering.

So, how fucked up is that? Even if this were true-- which I can't see how it is-- how does this idea do anything but absolve abusive pedophiles of guilt and remorse?  How incredibly vile to downplay the physical trauma of what a child must feel from an adult sexually abusing them? 

So this really casts an odd and ugly light on her work denying people who say they were abducted by aliens. And in both cases, Clancy is really shielding the evil PTB from their crimes (covering up the ET presence and their abuse of children).

UPDATE: see the first comment to this post.