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Oliver wrote:
Another example - alien abductees have all the classic symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. That was proven in a study. And then the explanation became that the experiences were believed so strongly or sth like that that the patients introduced the disorder into themselves. For any other experience the presence of the disorder would indicate what the patient describes really happened in a way, but here suddenly the thinking of the researchers took the "cannot be, find different explanation" turn and there you are. The disorder levels were similar to those of Vietnam vets! Something to add to this (to drive the point home a little deeper) is that some of these abductees had no memories of abduction until they went to get help for the PTSD symptoms- so if their memories were suppressed (or at least repressed to the point of suppression) conscious belief couldn't be the culprit here. But some scientists (not all, to their credit ) would rather invent another reason for these symptoms than deal with the obvious one.