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Harvard Clears Best-Selling UFO Author

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American Alchemy · 0:13:05

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Contemporaneous national reporting that Harvard Medical School's inquiry into John Mack had ended without sanction, reaffirming his academic freedom to study abduction accounts. Cited alongside the Crimson and Nature coverage when speakers describe the institutional pressure on Mack.

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Identifierhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/08/04/harvard-clears-best-selling-ufo-author/9d23d1e0-01b5-47f4-8a17-011ae401963e/
Issuing bodyThe Washington Post (Christopher B. Daly)
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Statusexists as a document; retrieved and read
Wherehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1995/08/04/harvard-clears-best-…

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After more than a year of closed-door hearings, Harvard officials disclosed today they will not discipline psychiatrist John Mack, who has gained notoriety for taking seriously people who say they have been abducted by space aliens.

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Cited on the show

  • 0:13:05 The “Clock” That Can Predict Death
  • 0:03:10 “These Are Parts Of an Alien UFO!” -Stanford Scientist Garry Nolan
  • 0:42:06 Eric Weinstein Debates CIA UFO Expert Hal Puthoff
  • 1:05:42 Martin Shkreli on Life in Prison, Pharma, UFO’s
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  • 0:20:29 UFOs & Religion: Vatican Reveals Hidden Link (Ft. Diana Pasulka)
  • 0:02:12 The CIA Scientist Who Built UFOs Before Bob Lazar (Townsend Brown Documentary)
  • 1:02:47 Why Jonah Hill Made A Documentary About My Family

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  • 0:13:05 The “Clock” That Can Predict Death
    idea has really spawned an industry by now. There are several startup companies that pursue that idea. For example, I'm involved with a company that was started by David Sinclair from Harvard. Um David um developed a modification, a protocol that rejuvenated and regrew the optic nerve. Somebody may have a very damaged
  • 0:03:10 “These Are Parts Of an Alien UFO!” -Stanford Scientist Garry Nolan
    and Arthur C. Clark wrote 2001 Space Odyssey. Right. Right. And I always found interesting, you know, sort of the monolith in 2001 Space Odyssey, which is this sort of thing placed on Earth that it inspires tech innovation. It's almost like John Mack would talk about a lot of these alien sightings being slightly more
  • 0:42:06 Eric Weinstein Debates CIA UFO Expert Hal Puthoff
    i'm being honest and open i still carry the sense of i cannot believe i'm sitting here discussing visitations from some intelligent life that we don't understand potentially uh but okay so you know a scientist should be able to consider these things and i'm not going to be the prisoner of the stigma but i am going to
  • Harvard Clears Best-Selling UFO Author The Washington Post (Christopher B. Daly) · 4 August 1995

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