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This is a better summary: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/rej.2018.2167 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/rej.2018.2167 After the initial report wa
by jobigoud 7y ago
This is a better summary: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/rej.2018.2167 https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/rej.2018.2167
After the initial report was published a number of let's say "conspiracy theorists" made their own articles and tried to find new things sometimes with doubtful methods.
The original research doesn't claim that any particular piece of argument in itself is conclusive but that combined together, it creates a corpus of oddities that amount to a strong doubt.
> Meanwhile Jeanne was apparently able to name old professors and maids of hers, things that her daughter would probably not have known or remembered.
In particular she made several "mistakes" when relating the names of people living with them, including the maid as you mention, which would be consistent with a maid that accompanied Yvonne to school but not Jeanne. See "Whom did Marthe Fousson accompany to school?" from the link above. Similarly for the piano teacher.
- TearsInTheRain 7y agoHow old was she when she made these mistakes? Is conflating two different maids she hired 80 years ago a reasonable mistake for her to make? I would say definitely.
- jobigoud 7y agoYes, she was already very old, this is acknowledged in the report that it can be a factor to the mistakes. It's not about a single mistake though but a combination of them, that are all consistent with the identity switch and not consistent with the single identity. For this particular item, it's not conflating two maids, she was asked who accompanied her to school and volunteered a name that Yvonne went to school with.