The Demon-Haunted World

Who is John Mack, MD from The Demon-Haunted World and what is their importance?

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John Mack, MD—a Harvard psychiatrist who came to believe the stories of alien abduction told by his patients, based on their emotional intensity, and wrote about them in several popular books. Sagan believes Mack surrendered his professional and scientific objectivity in accepting their claims on an emotional, rather than rational, basis.