“Kevin from Providence”
There is an excellent profile in the Providence Journal of Jim Scanlan, who is referred to as “Kevin from Providence” in...
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- Sep 30, 2015
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Yet Another Case of Recovered Memory, Corroborated by Confession
People who identified themselves as “skeptics” of recovered memory used to ask “where are the corroborated cases?” This website...
- Aug 17, 2015
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Different Molecular Pathways Change How Memories are Encoded
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- Jul 22, 2015
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Elizabeth Loftus and the Hoffman Report
The Hoffman Report, an independent investigation into the American Psychological Association’s involvement with government-sponsored...
- Jun 19, 2015
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A Teachable Moment, Indeed
Shortly after news anchor Brian Williams was exposed for exaggerating a war story on January 30th, Professor Elizabeth Loftus rushed to...
- Jun 2, 2015
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Neuroscientists Find “Lost” Memories
#Scientificevidence
- May 24, 2015
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An Historic Exaggeration in the New Yorker
What evidence did Wright provide in support of his claim that there were “thousands” of cases? On what basis was he “certain” that “many”...
- May 8, 2015
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Remembering Results that You Didn’t Find
The author then pivots to a description of Elizabeth Loftus’ Lost-in-the-Mall study, claiming that the experiment caused “six of the...
- Feb 8, 2015
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Patihis Finds Brian Williams’ Explanation “Credible”
At last, we have discovered the kind of person who false-memory researchers find credible: someone charged with lying, who claims to have...
- Jan 31, 2015
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The Rumors Were True
The complaints were never investigated because Professor Loftus resigned from the APA shortly after they were filed. The strange...
- Nov 30, 2014
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Another Recovered Memory Case, Corroborated by Confession
The police arranged for a monitored telephone call to Houtt. As she described it, “for nearly two hours, [Houtt] confessed to abuse more...
- Oct 8, 2014
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Testimony in Recovered Memory Case
Dr. Walter Sipe, a San Francisco-based psychiatrist, testified earlier this week in a recovered-memory case in Jackson County, Missouri....
- Sep 3, 2014
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Sex Offender Loses “False Memory Syndrome” Retrial
An Australian newspaper reports that a 65-year-old man, who was originally convicted of sex abuse of two girls in 2008, had been...
- May 16, 2014
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The Neural Basis for Repression
Those famous for saying there is no “scientific evidence” supporting repression or recovered memory are finding it ever harder to...
- May 8, 2014
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Maryland Court Recognizes Dissociative Amnesia
Dr. Pope offered a survey he conducted as evidence that dissociative amnesia was not generally accepted. Judge Rubin concluded: “Dr....
- Apr 21, 2014
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Announcing a New Blog (and Book)
The FMSF said very clearly in its early years that cases involving children were not its agenda. That changed in later years for reasons...
- Apr 3, 2014
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Is Pamela Freyd Cybersquatting?
If you put recoveredmemory.net into a web browser, you do not end up here. You end up at the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Why?...
- Dec 31, 2013
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False Dichotomies and Other Errors in Patihis et. al.
Patihis, Ho, Tingen, Lilienfeld, and Loftus recently published a research article in Psychological Science related to the “Memory Wars.”...
- Sep 26, 2013
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Loftus Misrepresents Important Case
Loftus said the case was about a women who “accused her mother of sexual abuse based on a repressed memory” (See the 13-minute mark of...
- Jul 25, 2013
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The $115,000 Question
Here is what we have surmised from the available evidence. The president of the Sturgis Group is Mark Lasswell; the address for his...
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