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- Deming, D., & Seager, S. eds. 2003, "Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets", ASP Conf. Ser. 294 (San Francisco: ASP)
Sara Seager has appeared extensively on the pseudo-scientific History Channel program, Ancient Aliens. Seager's website claims these cameo appearances "aim to set the record straight". Indeed whilst her pieces to camera do not explicitly endorse the hypothesis of the program (that civilization has been shaped by visitations by extraterrestrials in ancient times), her contributions have been carefully edited by the Ancient Aliens program to provide support for many fringe science concepts by implying connections between the fringe idea and legitimate scientific concepts. For example, her cameo explaining maglev trains is juxtaposed with suggestions that megalithic monuments were constructed in prehistory using magnetic anti-gravity. was not expected or intended by Prof. Seager.
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