Both studied people who claimed to have had experiences the scientists couldn’t definitively verify. “There was a sense that Mack and I were doing research that was equally wacky,” van der Kolk recalled. The other professor Harvard had slapped with a similar degree of oversight was psychiatrist John Mack, who had spent years studying people who claimed to have been taken by aliens and, by the mid-’90s, ended up believing them.Īt the time, van der Kolk was in his early 50s and an academic star who looked the part: tall and winsomely thatched behind rimless glasses. This was the situation facing the trauma researcher Bessel van der Kolk in the mid-’90s when Harvard Medical School informed him that all of his future publications would be vetted for quality control. It’s worse news if the only other person facing similar scrutiny is a man investigating alien abductions. It’s bad news when your university creates a committee to ensure that you don’t publish any research papers without its approval.
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