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UFO Phenomena
and the Self-
Censorship of
Science
George C. Andrews
In the field of UFO research, there is a constant tug-of-war between zealot
skeptics and zealot true believers, which like a Punch-and-Judy show distracts
public attention from open-minded attempts to address the real issues,
since both of these groups have their minds made up in advance.
It is unfortunate that a large proportion of the academic community
falls into the category of zealot skeptics, insofar as UFO phenomena are
concerned. Although regrettable, this is understandable, since any other
attitude endangers the grants on which their livelihood depends, as well as
their prestige in the hierarchy's pecking order.
The treatment Dr. John Mack received from his colleagues and the trustees
at Harvard after his book on UFO abductions was published amply
illustrates what happens when a previously respected professor investigates
a taboo subject and comes up with unconventional conclusions.
However, Dr. Mack emerged from the controversy relatively unscathed,
when one compares what happened to him with what happened to Dr.
James E. McDonald about a quarter of a century earlier.
Dr. James E. McDonald was Senior Physicist of the Institute of Atmospheric
Sciences at the University of Arizona. He thought that the Federal
Power Commission was evading the evidence concerning UFO involvement
in the total power failure that paralyzed New York on July 13th,
1965, and dared to say so in front of a Congressional committee. His
courageous statements on this and other occasions triggered a torrent
of derision and abuse, and he was ostentatiously ostracized by his colleagues,
in ways reminiscent of the treatment Dr. Mack recently received
from his colleagues at Harvard. However, unlike Dr. Mack, Dr. McDonald
was shortly thereafter found dead under suspicious circumstances, which
to this day have not been satisfactorily elucidated.
Arbitrary denial of the reality of UFO phenomena by the academic
community, in spite of the substantial evidence to the contrary which has
been surfacing persistently at irregular intervals for the last fifty years,