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And the purpose of that was not to advocate that any of this is real, but was to create an environment within which academics or professionals or just lay people interested in the subject matter could come and talk about it in a very professional manner.
right just to bounce around ideas not to advocate for you know they're here or they're reptilians or they're this or that but to like some of the things you raised what are the ethical issues what are the religious issues so we have put out a number of white papers for instance where we had a member of the catholic hierarchy write a paper on the issues related to catholicism and religion we've had
Timothy Galladay, who's actually on our advisory committee, talked about USOs and those issues.
We talked about near-space issues.
Peter is running a study on experiencers.
Not that the experiences are necessarily real, but what are the kinds of psychosocial experiences
matters that need to be considered for people who say that this has happened to them.
So there is a group in the UK called Unhidden, which is basically a bunch of psychiatrists, a group of professional psychiatrists who say, okay, well, there's a trauma associated with this.
Whether it's real or not, we don't know.
But what are the kinds of rules that we should or provisions that we should provide to the public and to psychiatrists?
So when somebody shows up at your doorstep in therapy and says this, you shouldn't immediately reach for the anti-hysteria or schizophrenia drugs.
I was lucky enough in my neighborhood, our next door neighbor who moved in for a while was the chair of psychiatry at Stanford.
And so we go over to have dinner with her and her husband.
And, you know, like one of the first things that she says, hey, what do you do?
And I happen to mention the UFO thing.