Irena McCammon Scott (born 1942) is an American author and

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. She received a BS from Ohio State University, an MS from the University of Nevada, and a PhD from the University of Missouri in the Department of Veterinary Medicine. Her post-doctoral studies were done at Cornell University. She has been employed as an Assistant Professor (Department of Biology) at

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, and has done research and teaching at the Ohio State University, the University of Missouri, the University of Nevada, and at

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. She worked in related fields and for many years studied many species including

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and their behaviour. She was a correspondent for '' Popular Mechanics'' magazine. Scott has also worked as a volunteer astronomer at the

Ohio State University Radio Observatory The Ohio State University Radio Observatory was a Kraus-type (after its inventor John D. Kraus) radio telescope located on the grounds of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio from 1963 to 1998. Known as Big Ear, th ...

, as well as participated in

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investigations for Defense Intelligence Agency and Center for UFO Studies. She is the author of six books, including on UFOs, and has contributed chapters and articles to several scientific journals, magazines, and newspapers. Her listings include ''Who's Who in the World'', ''World Who's Who of Women'', ''Who's Who in the Midwest'', ''Dictionary of International Biography'', and ''Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology''. Her 2008 book, ''Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue'', is a biography of John Purdue, founder of Purdue University and of the Purdue Block in Lafayette, Indiana. The foreword is by William Allen, author of ''Starkweather: Inside the Mind of a Teenage Killer'', ''Aransas: The Life of a Texas Coastal County''. The book is the first of the Founders Series, published by the Purdue University Press.

Bibliography

*''God is a Woman: The Last Taboo and Hidden Secrets at the Millennium'',

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, 1999 *''Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue'', Purdue University Press, 2008 *''Females Going Ape: Generating Life and Civilization'',

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, 2015 *''UFOs Today: 70 Years of Lies, Misinformation & Government Cover-Up'', Flying Disk Press, 2017 *Smith, Kevin, "Niece tells John Purdue's story", ''Lafayette Journal and Courier'', April 6, 2008

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External links

Official websiteFemales Going Ape book website
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