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I believe this story, and particularly the documentary, "Three Identical Strangers", is fake. I watched it years ago and became increasingly suspicious. The th

I believe this story, and particularly the documentary, "Three Identical Strangers", is fake. I watched it years ago and became increasingly suspicious. The three triplets are often interviewed on 80's style talk shows, but the verisimilitude is simulated; there were no such shows. At one point they open a restaurant as business partners. This "iconic" restaurant seemed to never exist, except for one "closed" marker in google search with no other reviews, and one picture, which was a small screen shot -- from the "documentary". I investigated a little further and found that one of the producers was a professor of media bias at a university. This article, which was probably written by AI, is regurgitation. I would be happy to be proven wrong and I challenge anyone to come forward with any evidence for the truth of this subject that comes from outside of the documentary itself.

gnatolf 2y ago
At least the AI-ness of the article is very clear. It's a horribly repetitive read with very little content.
ljf 2y ago
The Guardian article the AI article seems to pull from is better, but aside from the links to Desperately Seeking Susan, I agree proof is limited. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/11/nature-or-nurture-debate-three-identical-strangers-film https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/11/nature-or-nu... That said, relying on web searches for research on the 80s doesn't work that well.
re 2y ago
Here's a 1988 Washington Post article about the restaurant: https://archive.is/t0CCH https://archive.is/t0CCH And a UPI story from 1980: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/09/26/Eddy-Galland-Robert-Shafran-and-David-Kellman-said-Friday/6750338788800/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/09/26/Eddy-Galland-Robert-... This memorial page for Eddy has some very-low-res scans of contemporaneous articles and includes numerous citations in the body text: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79439251/edward_scott-galland https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79439251/edward_scott-ga...

gnatolf 2y ago

At least the AI-ness of the article is very clear. It's a horribly repetitive read with very little content.

ljf 2y ago

The Guardian article the AI article seems to pull from is better, but aside from the links to Desperately Seeking Susan, I agree proof is limited. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/11/nature-or-nurture-debate-three-identical-strangers-film https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/11/nature-or-nu... That said, relying on web searches for research on the 80s doesn't work that well.

re 2y ago

Here's a 1988 Washington Post article about the restaurant: https://archive.is/t0CCH https://archive.is/t0CCH And a UPI story from 1980: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/09/26/Eddy-Galland-Robert-Shafran-and-David-Kellman-said-Friday/6750338788800/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/09/26/Eddy-Galland-Robert-... This memorial page for Eddy has some very-low-res scans of contemporaneous articles and includes numerous citations in the body text: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79439251/edward_scott-galland https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/79439251/edward_scott-ga...