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Feb 10, 20211 min read
Pamela Freyd is lying about her own foundation’s newsletter
In an article that is critical of the now-defunct False Memory Syndrome Foundation, Katie Heaney recently reported the following: In the...
Jul 4, 20191 min read
The therapy that never existed: “Recovered Memory Therapy”
Michael Salter just wrote an important thread on Twitter about historical inaccuracies that keep getting repeated about child abuse and...
Jun 21, 20191 min read
Attacks on the credibility of abuse survivors are not justified by research
From an important new article in the Guardian by Michael Salter: [S]cientific studies find that children are far less suggestible than we...
Nov 23, 20181 min read
It bears repeating…
…that being anti-abuse is not the same thing as being anti-Catholic. From February 29, 2016: VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican newspaper...
Jun 17, 20182 min read
Harrison Pope Loses Again; Murray Huber, Guilty
Dr. Harrison Pope, the Harvard-based psychiatrist who testifies for the defense in recovered memory cases, lost a case in New Hampshire...
Mar 31, 20181 min read
An Extraordinary Hearing in Rhode Island
Last week, there was legislative hearing in Rhode Island to consider a bill that would extend the statute of limitations for civil suits...
Feb 9, 20181 min read
“An uncritical review of an absurdly incomplete record”
Mark Pendergrast has written an entire book claiming that Jerry Sandusky might be innocent because, he asserts, all of the testimony was...
Feb 5, 20181 min read
The Dishonesty of Frederick Crews
Jerry Sandusky might be “the most hated man in America,” but he has found a dedicated friend in retired English professor Frederick...
Feb 4, 20181 min read
Harvey Weinstein and the False Memory Syndrome Foundation
By now, of course, we have all seen smiling pictures of gymnasts on the US Olympic Team. We have also seen smiling pictures of the Turpin...
Feb 3, 20181 min read
The Disgraceful Discounting of a Larry Nassar Victim
as her letter said: “If they had only taken action on the first report, it would have saved me and all the other athletes standing before...
Jan 28, 20182 min read
Frank Fuster and Mark Pendergrast
But there is no evidence in the court file that Fuster ever took a lie detector test or tried to get one entered at trial, where he...
Oct 27, 20171 min read
#MeToo
Twenty-five years ago, I first remembered being sexually abused as a kid at the San Francisco Boys Chorus summer camp. I later proved it...
Jun 21, 20172 min read
Rachel Aviv Relies on Discredited Study
Coleman implored the state to administer a lie detector test before his death sentence was carried out, and the governor permitted this...
Jun 17, 20171 min read
Bill Cosby and the FMSF, Redux
When the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony from victims of sexual abuse in 1994, there was one witness who testified in...
Jan 22, 20172 min read
No Congratulations Here
The following letter was just published in the February 2017 issue of The Psychologist, a publication of the British Psychological...
Oct 30, 20161 min read
Commentaries on Taus v. Loftus
There were eight commentaries in the issue, including my own: “Research Ethics and Case Studies in Psychology: A Commentary on Taus v....
Aug 20, 20161 min read
“A Big To-Do About Nothing”
Does the False Memory Syndrome Foundation view child sexual abuse as a serious problem? They have always claimed to care about sexual...
Apr 26, 20161 min read
Corroborated Case: Inability to Remember Sustained Abuse
#Corroboratedcases
Feb 16, 20162 min read
“False memory syndrome” is politics, not jargon
Dr. Julie Shaw has a blog post at Scientific American called “Stop Calling It False Memory ‘Syndrome.’” Shaw is frustrated because...
Jan 31, 20161 min read
Bill Cosby and the FMSF
We would all do well to remember who lobbied against extending the statute of limitations in Pennsylvania. When the Senate Judiciary...
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