By Budd Hopkins This is the way the New York Times should have headlined their July 6 science section piece on the poorly understood phenomenon of sleep paralysis. Unfortunately, however, the headline read “Alien Abduction? Science Calls It Sleep Paralysis” [my emphasis], suggesting to the world that the UFO abduction phenomenon has at last been successfully explained away. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Junk Science is the proper designation for the many outlandish, irrelevant and unsupported hypotheses debunkers have employed over the years to dismiss UFO abductions (some of which I will discuss in future articles). Non-junk Science – the real thing, based upon the scientific method – begins by amassing and studying all the accurate, relevant data before any serious hypothesizing […] Read More