Amanda Lohrey

This is a highly rational man, full of certainty, although he prides himself on having an open mind.

So where's he going to go with this?

Well, you can believe in anything that you want to believe in, and you can have theories about it.

The confronting thing about this particular issue, and there are other similar issues, is you're dealing with people's actual experience.

And how do you assess that?

How do you judge that?

So much of the way in which we operate in life is based on reasonable doubt, you know.

Juries judge their peers on the basis of reasonable doubt.

We, in our relationship with friends and lovers, we give them the benefit of the doubt.

That's a very important phrase, I think, in our culture.

So what we choose to believe says a lot about who we are and where we are at that point in our lives.

But some things you just cannot be certain about, and then how do you deal with that psychologically?

Well, one of the things that abductees claim happens to them is that they are used to breed a hybrid race, because the Earth is in danger and the aliens want to breed a new race and help to save it.

That's just one of the scenarios that comes up in the actual research.

But there's also, in many countries in the world now, the pro-natalist movement, which has looked at the figures and said, there are not too many people on the world.

We are actually faced with population decline.

There are many countries in the world which will soon not have a taxation base sufficient to keep society going.

It's going to be all old people, because young people are not having children.

And these people organise themselves into a movement in which each couple will have as many children as they can, as quickly as they can, and preferably children who are genetically screened by modern technology to have no weaknesses and high IQs.

Now, on paper, it sounds fairly rational.