Don't mess with my false memory of aliens
"With alien abductees," Clancy thought, "I'm never going to have to deal with the criticism that it might have actually happened."

A Bad Trip Down Memory Lane

NYTimes.com > magazine, Sept 25
It is not considered good judgment to wade into the issue of recovered memories without skin as thick as permafrost and caller ID on the phone. Rare is the academic field in which colleagues on opposite sides of a debate -- people with international reputations -- dismiss the very foundations of one another's work, sometimes not so privately, with common barnyard epithets; in which two of the most prominent reference books are almost Jesuitically contradictory; in which more than a decade of fairly sound research has done little to settle a debate that has raged ever since Freud popularized the term ''repression.''