Roger Leir

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[[File:Roger Krevin Leir.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Leir]]
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{{cquote|Few things are worse than a negligent podiatrist.|||[[Penn Jillette]], ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]''<ref name="Bullshit">''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'', episode 1.03, ''Alien Abductions''</ref>}}
'''Roger K. Leir''', D.P.M., (1934-2014)<ref>Obituary by none other than [[Coast to Coast AM]]; {{Cite web | url=http://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/r-i-p-dr-roger-leir | title=R.I.P. Dr. Roger Leir | publisher=Coast to Coast AM | date=2014-03-16 | accessdate=2014-03-16}}</ref> was a {{wpl|Podiatry|podiatric}}<ref group="Note">This literally means "foot doctor".</ref> surgeon, [[ufology|ufologist]], and self-described "[[alien abduction]] [[Crank|researcher]]" best known as an investigator of allegedly [[alien]] implants.

Leir appeared frequently on television and [[talk radio]] programs devoted to [[ufology]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Roger Leir|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2332135/|publisher=imdb.com|accessdate=29 March 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/leir-dr-roger/5743 |title=Dr. Roger Leir | publisher=Coast to Coast AM | accessdate=August 17, 2012}}</ref> His [[Bullshit|work]] also plays a part in the [[targeted individual]] movement.<ref>[http://targetedindividualsua.weebly.com/wars-info.html The Targeted Individuals United Association website] features a short bio on the late Dr. Roger Leir (linking [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbkJB7i7cYE especially to a YouTube video] in which Dr. Leir underscores the fundamental alien involvement in the TI phenomenon) finally providing a banner link to the good doctor's website - [http://www.alienscalpel.com/ AlienScalpel.com].</ref> He had the great honour of being 
mocked
 featured on the "alien abduction" episode of ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'' alongside other brilliant minds, such as [[David Icke]].<ref name="Bullshit"/>

==Claims==
{{cquote|It is my opinion that [[Vagueness|someone, or some entity, from somewhere else]], is implanting these devices into human beings so that they can [[Technobabble|monitor genetic changes which are occurring in the human body]].|||Dr. Roger Leir<ref name="Bullshit"/>}}

Leir said he had removed about a dozen implants from people's bodies<ref group="Note">Basically the textbook definition of "unnecessary surgery".</ref> and claimed they were devices that "emit radio signals". Leir alleged that some of the implants had physically moved during surgery, as if to avoid removal.<ref group="Note">Never fear, the man with a scalpel will chase after them into whichever nook or cranny of your body they might flee into. "Just keep digging!"</ref> This despite the fact that — in a video he himself provided to [[skeptics]] of this exact phenomenon taking place — it quite instantly becomes obvious that Leir is the one responsible for the perceived movement, forcefully pushing around a mobile lump of subcutaneous fat with his thumb.<ref name="Bullshit"/> Leir said that [[Bullshit|laboratory testing]] of the implants "[[Burden_of_proof|implied they were of extraterrestrial origin]]".<ref name="Nickell2001">{{cite book|author=Joe Nickell|title=Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Bm-EjjG3AwC&pg=PT124|accessdate=29 March 2013|date=24 October 2001|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-3727-8|pages=124–}}</ref><ref name="White1998">{{cite book|author=R. Stephen White|title=Why science?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=giwIAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=30 March 2013|date=1 June 1998|publisher=Nova Science|isbn=978-1-56072-748-4}}</ref> Sounds like the exact type of conclusion an actual, accredited laboratory would settle on, doesn't it?

His first book, ''The Aliens and the Scalpel'', was alleged by Leir to have sold over 10,000 copies by 2003.<ref name="Bullshit"/> By that time, Leir claims his third book was recently out — in [[Portugal|Portuguese]]. Desculpa!<ref group="Note">https://translate.google.com/?tl=pt#en/pt/Sorry</ref>

==Criticism and probation==
{{cquote|The only thing otherwordly about that case is the fact that ''someone would claim'' that the piece is extraterrestrial.|||[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/glenn-pfeffer-md/87/98/141 Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Glenn Pfeffer] on the random splinters claimed by Dr Leir to be alien implants<ref name="Bullshit"/>}}
''Penn & Teller: Bullshit!'' revealed that in 1999, Leir was found guilty of having committed "repeated acts of negligence" by the California Board of Podiatric Medicine, serving 3 years of probation.<ref>''Doctor of Podiatric Medicine License No. E-1171 (respondent), Case No. 1B-94-35623.''</ref>

Both Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Glenn Pfeffer and Skeptical investigator [[Joe Nickell]] explained that the "implants" are ordinary objects such as pieces of metal or shards of glass that become lodged in tissue similar to splinters. Other "implants" are simply a collection of fat cells that become disconnected (which are harmless).<ref name="Bullshit"/><ref name="Nickell2001" /> Nickell said that Leir's associate, Derrel Sims, supposedly refused to cooperate when asked to provide a forensic medical institute with specimens or photos for analysis.

==See also==
*[[Microchip implant]]

==External links==
*[http://www.alienscalpel.com/dr-leirs-bio www.alienscalpel.com]&nbsp;— Biographic information on Dr. Roger Leir

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