How Broken Ufology

[elfismiles]

On the heels of the David Jacobs / Emma Woods debacle scandal:

The Priests of High Strangeness: The Co-Creation Of The Abduction Phenomenon
by Carol Rainey (ex-wife of Budd Hopkins)
http://ufoupdateslist.com/2011/jan/m17-001.shtml

- PDF sample of source: Paratopia Magazine - Vol 1 Issue 1
http://tiny.cc/2pzis
http://www.paratopia.net/paratopia_maga ... _final.pdf

I'm going to finally post my scans of Jacques Vallee's 1992 Mufon symposium speech which was one of the earliest warnings towards these problems that I am aware of - as well as some links to other similar past ufological scandals that point to the need for more proper codes of ethics.

UFO MAGAZINE blog articles on the Emma Woods / David Jacobs Debacle
http://ufomagazine.squarespace.com/ufo- ... emma-woods

The Girl Who Saved Her Own Life
Hypnosis Session 29 and the Emma Woods Case
To Alfred Lehmberg / by Gary Haden
http://speculativerealms.blogspot.com/2 ... -life.html

[elfismiles]

You want W.O.O.? UFOs MPD Ph.D.s OMG
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28643

1 in 5 believe aliens walk among us
Re: Woods V. Jacobs
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27802&p=330027

[elfismiles]

Medical Records: Carpenter/Bigelow/Abductees' Files

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UpDate: Re: Carpenter/Bigelow/Abductees' Files - Mulvey
UpDate: Re: Carpenter/Bigelow/Abductees' Files - Mulvey. From: Ann Mulvey <annmulvey@compuserve.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:35:52 -0400 Fwd Date: Sat, ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m29-008.shtml - Cached
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UpDate: Re: John Carpenter/Status Report Request - Carpenter
From: John Carpenter <StarmanJC@aol.com> Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 00:39:07 -0400 ... >report regarding the notification of the clients whose files you >sold? ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m05-023.shtml
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UpDate: Re: Velez, Andrus And Carpenter - Velez
CA> >Subject: Re: Velez, Andrus And Carpenter >To: updates@sympatico.ca .... BTW, in spite of what Bigelow may have told you regarding how many files had ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m07-011.shtml
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UpDate: Re: Velez, Andrus And Carpenter - Hammond
The 'source material' of the files that were sold >becomes of paramount importance in light of Mr. Carpenter's role >as head of the MUFON Databank Project. ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m06-006.shtml
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UpDate: Re: P-47: John Carpenter's Sale - Gates
Likewise with Carpenter peddling his 140 files and this entire sordid affair is now public, I suspect John will no longer be the commanding presence he once ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m17-008.shtml - Cached
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UpDate: Re: John Carpenter - Apathy/Damage Done - Hart
>They don't have an ethical liability because the files were >redacted, according to Carpenter. >Thank you, >Josh Goldstein Josh, To my knowledge one and ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m14-033.shtml
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UpDate: Re: John Carpenter Responds - Carpenter
Jul 27, 2000 ... People have called these files "medical records" -- but they ... with project ideas until he came along to help out. John Carpenter ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m27-021.shtml - Cached
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UpDate: Re: Open Letter To Elizabeth Carpenter And Gary Hart -
UpDate: Re: Open Letter To Elizabeth Carpenter And Gary Hart - ... a copy of the >list of names and addresses of the 140 abductees whose files >were sold. ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m25-015.shtml - Cached
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UpDate: Re: John Carpenter's Australian Video - Gates
Aug 2, 2000 ... UpDate: Re: John Carpenter's Australian Video - Gates ... We _know_ they don't know >>>their files were sold and need to learn that truth! ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m07-006.shtml
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Re: The Current Mrs. Carpenter Speaks Out -
Aug 18, 2000... lot of obvious pain (just like the >abductees whose files John sold! ... And to go >out of your way to involve Mrs. Carpenter (who is so ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m18-021.shtml

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UpDate: Re: Velez, Andrus And Carpenter - Velez
CA> >Subject: Re: Velez, Andrus And Carpenter >To: updates@sympatico.ca .... BTW, in spite of what Bigelow may have told you regarding how many files had ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m07-011.shtml
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UpDate: Re: Velez, Andrus And Carpenter - Hammond
>WA- It's true, John did sell some files to Bigelow. ... >(*The reason I asked this question is because John Carpenter was >in charge of gathering material ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m06-006.shtml
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Re: Bigelow/NIDS Purchase Of Records - Velez
In the case of the sale of client files by John Carpenter to Robert Bigelow I raised a red flag and questioned the propriety and even the legality of the ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/dec/m13-014.shtml
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UpDate: Re: John Carpenter Responds - Carpenter
Jul 27, 2000 ... People have called these files "medical records" -- but they ... Robert Bigelow arranged the project for his NIDS Science Board which is not ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m27-021.shtml - Cached
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Re: Bigelow/NIDS Purchase Of Records - Kaeser
In the case of the sale >of client files by John Carpenter to Robert Bigelow I raised a >red flag and questioned the propriety and even the legality of >the ...
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/2000/dec/m14-001.shtml - Cached


UpDate: John Carpenter's Australian Video
http://ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m02-003.shtml

UpDate: Re: Open Letter To Elizabeth Carpenter And Gary Hart -
http://ufoupdateslist.com/2000/jul/m25-015.shtml

Oz Security Of Health Records
Oz & ASIA DATA RESEARCH
Phenomena Research Australia
http://ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m01-021.shtml


UpDate: Re: Abductee Files/Our Children - Brookesmith
http://ufoupdateslist.com/2000/aug/m01-023.shtml

[elfismiles]

Jenny Randles on BUFORA's moratorium on hypnosis:

Regression Hypnosis: Should Ufology Take A Stand?
From: Jenny Randles
http://www.ufoupdateslist.com/1999/apr/m14-011.shtml

[operator kos]

Care to post a quick summary for those of us short on reading time these days?

[elfismiles]

Care to post a quick summary for those of us short on reading time these days?

Sure OK.

Nutshell on Jacobs vs Woods: Jacobs suggested to Emma under hypnosis that she had incurable DID/MPD and should get medicated. Jacobs is a history professor not a psychiatrist. And...

a request
by the good Doctor (Ph.D. in history, non-medical) to send him
her panties, unwashed, so they could be tested for alien sperm;
and a proposal that she wear a chastity belt with nails across
the vaginal opening, which he'd locate for her from (in Jacobs
words) "a sex shop that specialized in bondage/dominance, a
place that I frequented quite often."1

In later sessions, Jacobs, hyperventilating, can be heard
telling Emma that he's in terrible trouble - that an outraged
hybrid (who knows that Jacobs is the only person on the planet,
other than Hopkins, who knows the evil fate that aliens are
planning for humanity) - that this hybrid is sending him
threatening Instant Messages on his AOL account to make him
cease and desist his work with the abductee Emma Woods.

(Note to Jacobs: Multiple psychiatric journals state that
medication is not recommended for someone with this disorder and
that Multiple Personality Disorder, now known as Disassociative
Identity Disorder, is serious, chronic and the sufferer is at
risk for suicidal attempts, self-injury, violence, substance
abuse, and repeated victimization by others. Good call, Doctor-
Practicing-Medicine-Without-a-License. Save your own skin and
the patient be damned.)

I ask you: What would happen to a licensed psychotherapist who
falsely assured a hypnotized patient that she had an incurable
mental illness which would make the rest of her life a living
hell? He'd get the pants sued off of him, his license suspended
or revoked and would possibly never be allowed to practice
again. A panel of peers would review his professional conduct
and make appropriate rulings.

His employer, Temple University, didn't scent a powerful law
firm in the offing and so claimed Jacobs wasn't doing research,
just "taking an oral history." And Budd Hopkins jumped in with a
letter to Emma that compared her to George W. Bush invading
Iraq, causing the deaths of thousands, if she exposed his
friend's longdistance bedside manner.

Ufology's two best-known abduction researchers continue to take
victory laps over the airwaves, while the leaders in the field
are largely closemouthed about the cringe-inducing revelations.

But the author (Carol Rainey, former wife to Budd Hopkins) of the linked to article (excerpts above) goes on to show just how sloppy the other abductionists have been, going into detail about the infamous Linda Cortile abduction case (which Mark Pilkington in MIRAGE MEN (pgs 13 - 14) reports may be connected to a disinfo campaign alluded by Richard Tomlinson as a possible 1991 MI6 smear agaisnt UNSG Boutros Ghali.

The article also reveals something I didn't know/realize which is that the Leslie Kean making the media rounds for her new book "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record" is (I think) the same Leslie Kean who helped facilitate the madness perpetrated by Budd Hopkins.

All of which is making me want to go back and re-read DARK WHITE, Jim Schnabel's book on the abduction phenomena that focuses upon that same period of Hopkins research.

/nutshell part one

[elfismiles]

RE: what I said about Leslie Kean... deals with her handling of Budd's work with Jim Mortellaro (and Linda Cortile / Napolitano) whom I'd interacted with (sorta) on the UFO UpDates eList:

In my opinion, the Jim Mortellaro case is one of the best
examples of what's wrong with the abduction research that I
observed, second only to the Linda Cortile case.

Jim claimed to have earned two Ph.D.s, and implied he'd held a
national or international marketing directorship with Hitachi,
none of which was confirmed by the investigator
...
That's when I first became aware of Jim's high intake of
prescription drugs and asked why he kept a pistol stuck in his
boot. It just didn't seem like a good combo to me and I said so.

That day, Leslie Kean, Budd's new protege, advisor, and all-
round organizer, was in the studio, too. Just beginning to learn
about alien abductions from Budd, she agreed with me. Not a good
combination, Jim.
...
Leslie Kean had begun her exploration of UFO abduction by
allegedly vetting the Linda Cortile case (from Hopkins' book
Witnessed). After doing her own review of source material and
interviewing both Budd and Linda, she concluded that it was a
sound, well-researched case.

Now Kean took up the Jim Mortellaro case in a big way, once she
was let in on the spectacular opportunity of his case. It would
be the first time that ufologists would be included in a major
mainstream, scientific study of the medical evidence of alien
abductions.

Suffice to say, if these are accurate descriptions of Leslie Kean's early UFO work I am much more skeptical of her recent foray into UFO book publishing - but perhaps she's gotten significantly better or perhaps these allegations are inaccurate.

[Crow]

elfismiles, could you please link me to your info that the Cortile case is a hoax? I'm googling but no luck yet.

[Crow]

I would think that a species capable of interstellar travel could also remove a chastity belt.

[elfismiles]

elfismiles, could you please link me to your info that the Cortile case is a hoax? I'm googling but no luck yet.

Hi Crow. Well there is the info in my original post link...

The Priests of High Strangeness: The Co-Creation Of The Abduction Phenomenon
by Carol Rainey (ex-wife of Budd Hopkins)
http://ufoupdateslist.com/2011/jan/m17-001.shtml

- PDF sample of source: Paratopia Magazine - Vol 1 Issue 1
http://tiny.cc/2pzis
http://www.paratopia.net/paratopia_maga ... _final.pdf

Excerpts:

later, as the story continued to unfold (long after the
book's publication), Linda's presence in the lobby of the World
Trade Center when the planes hit and her bloody, barefoot escape
over shards of glass. Although... not all of those events reported
above by Linda Cortile had been selected by Budd for inclusion
in the book. I knew about them, but they weren't in the book.

I sometimes got confused between what I knew from life and the
artfully shaped version of life that I found in the manuscript.
Linda was simply part of our lives, a friend, sometimes at the
house being interviewed by the media, sometimes Budd's co-
presenter at conferences. When the rest of Budd's people
gathered in the living room for abductee support groups, Linda
was always there. Many times, I schlepped my camera and lights
to Lower Manhattan to interview Linda in her apartment, with her
family, over her tomato sauce, in situ.
...
Most of these alleged witnesses had contacted Budd via letters,
audiotapes, telephone calls, and drawings, although he'd never
come face-to-face with any of the major players in the story.
...
One June night in 1996 (seven years after Linda's alleged 1989
abduction), I was filming in our kitchen as Linda recounted to
Budd and a dinner guest yet another recent, frightening attempt
by government agents Richard and Dan - characters in the book
Witnessed - to kidnap Linda and her cousin Connie into the back
of a van. Linda described the struggle in great detail,
including the two women's successful escape.

Budd was aghast that she hadn't told him earlier and said he
urgently needed to speak with Cousin Connie. Linda left,
promising she'd have her cousin call Budd so he could question
her version of the event.

Later that night, the phone rang, and as Budd answered, I
watched a peculiar look come over his face. The usually voluble
Hopkins was very quiet, mainly listening. After he thanked the
caller and hung up, I asked who that was. His smile was as tight
and wry as a killer Martini: "That was Linda, pretending to be
her cousin Connie."4

To find the earliest critiques I'll need to go home and crack open DARK WHITE again which details the folk who initially criticized the case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tomlinson
http://www.mi5.com/security/mi6org/tomlinson.htm

But you are probably asking about my reference to the idea of it being a disinfo campaign - that is just speculation that I've not been able to pin down yet but was apparently alluded to in a book by Richard Tomlinson.

As far as I know there isn't really anything on the web about this and I only learned of it as a research lead reading Pilkington's MIRAGE MEN and speaking with he and Nick Redfern about it.

Apparently Phillip Coppens has written about this:

New York, New York: the Linda Napolitano “abduction”

Did the most important UFO abduction ever – proving the physical reality of the aliens – occur in late November 1989? Or was it instead a carefully constructed plot to disinform and discredit?
...

According to Richard Tomlinson, an ex MI6 [British Intelligence] operative, “During the run-up to the 1992 Secretary General elections, [MI6] mounted a smear operation against the Egyptian candidate, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was regarded as dangerously Francophile by the CIA. The CIA are constitutionally prevented from manipulating the press so they asked MI6 to help. […] [MI6] planted a series of stories to portray Boutros-Ghali as unbalanced, claiming that he was a believer in the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial life. The operation was eventually unsuccessful, however, and Boutros-Ghali was elected.”

Here is testimony that the CIA in 1992 was mounting a disinformation campaign directed towards the highest echelons of the UN, in depicting the Secretary General as a UFO believer. The Linda Napolitano abduction fits within this timeframe (1991), including the target (UN Secretary General) and the modus operandi (UFOs); it is a perfect match. Furthermore, the actions of the two agents – spreading disinformation – is allowed within the bailiwick of the CIA, as the press was indeed not manipulated; but the CIA manifesto says nothing about manipulating UFO abduction researchers, does it?

http://www.philipcoppens.com/cortile.html

[Cosmic Cowbell]

elfismiles, could you please link me to your info that the Cortile case is a hoax? I'm googling but no luck yet.

Here's Hansen, Butler and Stefula on the 'Witnessed' case.

http://www.tricksterbook.com/ArticlesOn ... leCase.htm

This shakeout is long overdue. Partly due to the reticence of the establishment to criticize other members of said establishment lest they be judged as well. Carol's article is very revealing coming from the perspective of someone inside the circle. There is a certain segment online that are using the fact that she is the ex-wife of Hopkins -AND- has a documentary on these issues coming out (as mentioned in the essay) this summer, as an excuse to label it a "hit piece". A diligent read reveals a bit of animosity but overall the article is accurate as to known history (Cortile, Mortellaro, IF Advisory board resignations)). The gist is that Rainey, who has an extensive experience with the proper handling of research subjects and the scientific method outside of Abduction research is simply calling for such within it. Emma Woods was the catalyst, Jacobs got caught out being a douchebag (send me your undies, you have MPD), and then making excuses for it all the while labeling Emma obsessive, in essence compound douchbaggery and Hopkins, rather than turn on his buddy, came out in his defense. That was a mistake...but one that will in the end, strengthen protocols and prevent predatory behaviors within the field. That's a good thing.

[Joe Hillshoist]

All of which is making me want to go back and re-read DARK WHITE, Jim Schnabel's book on the abduction phenomena that focuses upon that same period of Hopkins research.

/nutshell part one

I did that here, first time in over 10 years, during one of the MiLAbs threads.

Came away with An Impression of the book.

I don't want to pre-empt your re reading of it tho. I'll be interested to hear what you think.

[Cosmic Cowbell]

Schnabel's current thoughts on the thread title...

JACQUES VALLEE AND THE PROBLEMS OF UFOLOGY

This bit goes somewhat to my previous post although I'm not sure he had that in mind when he wrote it.

1. Beware the lone scientist

The Frenchness of the Close Encounters character Claude Lacombe made him seem a man apart – a lone, heroic scientist. But in the reality of the film, he wasn’t alone; he was surrounded by other scientists as well as by engineers, doctors and other technical people. So it is in real life with normal scientists. They work on teams, in effect, in vast leagues with lots of rules, and just about everything they do can be, and frequently is, questioned by their fellow scientists – in the lab, via e-mail, at conferences, in the peer-review gauntlet before publication, in the commentaries after publication, and in the to-ings and fro-ings of the grant-proposal process. You know that expression, “it takes a village”? Well, modern scientists live in something like a village – where nosy people are always looking over their shoulders, watching for mistakes. In that world, mistakes can bring very serious professional consequences.

Naturally, that intense critical culture tends to keep modern scientists on their toes. But the lone scientist doesn’t have that assistance. The lone scientist often doesn’t even address his writings to fellow scientists, but instead addresses a popular audience. Thus the lone scientist has to rely, for the most part, on his own internalization of scientific culture. And for most of us, over a long stretch, that just isn’t going to be enough.

[operator kos]

thanks, smiles!

[Simulist]

Very interesting stuff, SMiles. I'm greatly anticipating more critical analysis of the dogmas and further exposure of the tactics of men like Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs.