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Ah yes, the woman who provided paid testimony on behalf of Ghislaine Maxwell, Harvey Weinstein, OJ Simpson, Robert Durst, among others. Who better to invoke t

by svnt 3y ago

Ah yes, the woman who provided paid testimony on behalf of Ghislaine Maxwell, Harvey Weinstein, OJ Simpson, Robert Durst, among others. Who better to invoke to smear another insufficiently diabolical human? https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/ghislaine-maxwell/false-memory-expert-involved-in-robert-durst-o-j-simpson-and-harvey-weinstein-cases-testifies-for-ghislaine-maxwell/ https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/ghislaine-maxwell/false-... edit: If you want to get a clearer (or fuzzier) picture of this career expert witness, this piece in the New Yorker is fascinating: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/how-elizabeth-loftus-changed-the-meaning-of-memory https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/05/how-elizabeth-...

peterfirefly 3y ago
> , among others. Which includes the Duke Lacrosse players -- who were actually innocent. I read the (long!) New Yorker article and I was left with three impressions: psychologists and their families are really weird people, I don't like her as a person, and she is right that memories aren't very reliable.
- svnt 3y ago
  > Which includes the Duke Lacrosse players -- who were actually innocent. She did say she takes every case (although she drew the line at a Nazi). Memory is unreliable, but it’s tough to argue that was the issue in the lacrosse case. Leveraging that against a person who is risking everything to get justice against a person in power is a lot to put on them. Preventing that pressure opens up a way for manipulators to get through. Gödel probably has something to say about all that. As an aside it’s interesting that in specific comments referencing the recent Altman events I have been repeatedly downvoted to -3.