How ‘recovered memories’ fuelled the paedo panic

SigmundFloyd76 · 2015-04-14T12:14:59+00:00

Interesting read. It's like the eye witness thing; the human mind is just too malleable to be trusted.

Harvard encouraged her and her mentor, Professor Richard J McNally, to switch the focus of their research on to people who believed they were abducted by aliens: a less politically sensitive class of victim.

What? Awesome! So to me this implies that many people who claim to be the victim of rape are on par with the Alien abduction crowd. People just get it in their head and to them it is real. Fucking amazing.

Good post OP. This is an important field in consideration of false accusations of all types. Peoples memories are suspect.

RancorUnited · 2015-04-14T15:23:55+00:00

The satanic panic should have been enough to put an end to all this nonsense. People had their lives ruined by schizophrenic grandmothers and modern day Christian witch hunts. I'm not exactly sure what's fueling the hysteria in the UK so much but there's something incredibly suspect when only wealthy people and organizations are targeted. Makes a good headline sure but it definitely makes for some incredible settlements. No one there bats an eye when girls are being abused there ironically fearful of being labeled a racist. But funny looking old white guy with a sizeable estate means it's fair game. The white guy in the park taking photos of his kids? He's a pedo and you should be afraid to go outside. The creepy foreigner raping 11 year old girls? That's multiculturalism and if you say otherwise your a racist.

iMADEthis2post · 2015-04-14T21:13:46+00:00

False memory syndrome has been around for ages now, I remember mention of it in the 90's or early the 2000's. Specifically in relation to paedophillia as it happens. Surprised it's controversial now.

Rutherford-b-hate · 2015-04-14T12:32:44+00:00

Thank you for posting this. I am a strong supporter of abolishing age of consent laws, and this article legitimizes my convictions. If "child sexual abuse" was no longer a "thing" then feminists would cease to seek attention for their "victimization." Feminists want to ruin men's lives by making hebephilia illegal (or, at least, convincing society that it's morally reprehensible) then falsely accusing "perverts" of misconduct based on memories that don't even exist.

TiredPaedo · 2015-04-14T11:44:43+00:00

I thought this was going to be about hooking up a guy to some device that let you browse his memories and then stumbling upon one of his own 12 year old penis or maybe a girl from around then and charging him with possession of child pornography.

As bizarre as it sounds, it could end up being the next thing. There's a rape in the area and all men are then required to go through memory scans. Much like DNA swabs. Bam, you get hit with charges for remembering your own 12 year old penis.

Title	How ‘recovered memories’ fuelled the paedo panic
Author	InBaggingArea
Upvotes	23
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Date	April 14, 2015 11:37 AM UTC (11 years ago)
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