In both of those examples, the actors played characters of their own race, pretending to be another race as the plot of the respective movies.

I feel the same way about the first and second Terminators, and the first Rambo and its sequels.

That paper reads like it was written by an undergrad going through cargo cult motions of sounding like a scientist. And the evidence is still weak: many of those studies being summarized are studies where they poisoned rats and investigated whether onion juice has some kind of protection against the poison, as measured by testosterone levels.

Gravity ain’t shit. It’s not the falling that kills you, it’s the impact at the bottom. Which are electromagnetic forces.