Posted by Larry Hoover on October 27, 2004, at 11:51:07
In reply to Re: Take a test, posted by fires on October 27, 2004, at 11:24:30
> > I find it intriguing that Loftus was alleged to have manipulated the respondent in the legal action, the child's mother, "...Loftus went beyond the bounds of academic research, by “befriending” Jane Doe’s mother to the point where she would provide a willing audience for poetry the mother had written, by coaching her to believe she had not abused her daughter decades earlier..." Let's see, an expert in the manipulation of memory tampering with a witness' memory, to win a legal action, and to "prove" a point?
> <snip>
> Ah, you seem to have had a memory lapse!
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> You stated: "Let's see, an expert in the manipulation of memory tampering with a witness' memory, to win a legal action, and to "prove" a point?"
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> Actually, the article reads, like you wrote:
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> "Loftus was alleged to have manipulated the respondent in the legal action, the child's mother..."
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> Alleged.No memory lapse. Read the opening sentence of the paragraph now at the top of this post. I said that, "...Loftus was alleged...".
A lawsuit is an allegation, and the respondent's expert witness is alleged to have tampered.
The issue becomes one of credibility, not truth, as I argued in the rest of my prior post.
Lar
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