Grey Aliens: Part 1...

I finally picked up Nigel Kerner's Grey Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls (GAHS; 2010; Bear & Co.), and have resolved to write several blog posts about it, somewhat in the same style as I did for The Case for a Creator before. Unfortunately, I think that this one is going to be a more difficult read than the aforementioned title, and that's saying a lot.

I've only gotten through the first few chapters of GAHS, and I'm already fairly upset. Despite the following quotation appearing on page 4:

"The book takes a serious look at the [alien] situation in terms of the sociological consequences of this profound threat to our humanity, with strict recourse to purely scientific rather than mystical paradigms."

the book is written in a way that is very, very unscientific. That is to say that the author flows from one vague concept to the next without ever really explaining anything. For instance, we move from a brief statement about how aliens contacted Hitler in order to make sure that he eliminated dark-skinned people because the melanin in their skin acts as a protective coat against alien genetic manipulation, to how the author suggested that the bloodline of Jesus Christ has been preserved throughout the ages before the Davinci Code came out.

We're tritely told that anyone who believes in evolution is a 'fool', because the Second Law of Thermodynamics (SLOT) applies to everything at all times - which is strange because I was always under the impression that the 'SLOT' (the author obviously likes acronyms) applied only to closed systems. In fact, if everything tended towards chaos all the time, then life itself would be impossible, which it plainly is not. Perhaps this is part of the alien conspiracy as well...

The book then quickly treads the familiar ground of 'How can aliens not be real given that there are so many UFO reports?'. All possible criticisms are quickly dismissed. Why are UFO stories never verified? Because aliens control all of the world's governments and are covering it up. How come alien sightings only come for industrialized, Northern Hemisphere nations? Because the aliens avoid the darker skinned people of Earth because of their natural melanin resistance. And so on...

Sometimes I feel that the author is so unfamiliar with Occam's razor that if he ever tried to apply it he may accidentally cut himself. If the aliens are so damned omnipotent and intelligent, then why aren't they stopping thousands of books and TV shows exposing their nefarious actions from being produced each year? Wait, I get it. Nothing has done a better job of convincing me that the whole alien invasion thing is bunk than these sorts of books. That was a close call; the aliens almost won right then and there!

My eyes are now open. Damn you Greys!!!