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is "misremembering something that's very nearly what happened" really a false memory though? One of the fabricated events they used is "George W. Bush vacation
by Doxin 2y ago
is "misremembering something that's very nearly what happened" really a false memory though?
One of the fabricated events they used is "George W. Bush vacationing with a baseball celebrity during the Hurricane Katrina disaster."
A real and very similar event is "Bush was criticized for not returning to Washington, D.C. from his vacation in Texas until after Wednesday afternoon, more than a day after the hurricane hit on Monday."[0]
I mean clearly these are different things, but you can see how people get them confused without having a "false memory" if their memory is simply "I recall there being some hubbub around Bush being on vacation during that time."