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"This is science writing at its best...and should be required reading for all scientists who want to explain what it is they do....Achenbach is a journalist, not a social scientist...so don't look for hypothesis-testing of the latest social psychological theory of mass hysteria or cognitive dissonance. He insights into human nature instead come from a more basic and in many ways deeper understanding through real world experiences with the participants themselves....Until ET phones me I will have to settle for being amazed and amused by the tales of alien dreamers so well recounted in this beautifully written book.Achenbach, Joel is the author of 'Captured by Aliens The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe' with ISBN 9780806524962 and ISBN 0806524960.
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