BELIEVERS and sceptics both care whether there is sufficient evidence to support the claim that aliens are visiting our planet. For the purposes of Aliens, however, The Sunday Times writer Bryan Appleyard has decided that it doesn’t matter whether aliens are real; what matters is why we see them.
Speaking grumpily as a sceptic, it’s hard to see how you can ignore the reality question, but…willing suspension of disbelief and all that.
It’s easier to say what this book isn’t than what it is. It isn’t a study of the psychology of belief. It isn’t a review of the evidence for or against the alien hypothesis.…
