and for carl sagan, betty and hill were. he says this story is entirely implausible. this is the wrong way to think about space. he speculates that they were suffering some sort of psychological problems that led to this abduction. and you see that i think these different people kind of reading this of betty and barney in different ways for different purposes and making of it something useful for and it is, i think sagan's, memory of their story that has largely been preserved. yes. and it's unfortunate because, as you say, it was inaccurate and i don't want to overgeneralize, but i would say that every time i have tried to have a conversation about, these matters with an astronomer, either an amateur astronomer or a professional astronomer. i have found similar attitudes. let's just say, well, i see is the ten minute mark. and at this point masculine. i have agreed that we'd love to take questions from you all. so this is. yes, we have a question right away. we do tap into them and we want to get on the microphone. oh, yes, sorry. protocol. so that we can bring a mic

in 1975, turned into a film produced by and starring james earl jones and then was featured on carl sagan's extremely popular cosmos miniseries in the early 1980s. it has become more than a real touchstone in the ufo mythology of the united states. but i want to argue as well, it's much more than that. any and barney hill story for me as a historian, as a of religion, was as much about the age in which it was told and repeated and retold and retold as it was about their own experience. and i wanted to know who barry and barney hill were, how they in turn, this event when it came to mean to them, they were, in fact, in some ways very typical americans of their time. and they were voters who supported the democratic party for the most part, they supported the liberal policies of franklin roosevelt and john f kennedy of lyndon johnson, and they were activists. hill was white. she grew up in a union family in new hampshire and attended the university of new hampshire and worked as a social worker. abani hill was black. his family had fled the south during the great migration of the 1920s and 19

headline was insufficient evidence to make recommendations, but i think that's starting to change carl sagan used to say absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and i think that applies here to some extent, if you take the top of the list there, daily multivitamin, there was a study that came out a couple of years ago now the people who took, took the people who took the daily multivitamin actually had an improvement in cognition over a three-year period, about a 60% reduction in cognitive decline the rest of the supplements and vitamins on that list, the omega omega-3s, the koch, uten, vitamin c, b12 magnesium lion's mane, and probiotics. >> these are things that i take now after looking at a lot of the evidence this has been something that i sort of established over a years. in part also because of the work that we did on the last alzheimer's documentary, you may remember that sara, they did these large trials where they actually included those supplements along with a healthy diet and exercise and they found a significant reduction in how quickly or cognition might decline. and in