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look at the last few posts on Ophelia Benson's blog at Freethought Blogs - the recent re-ignition of controversy around Woody Allen has sparked the expected re-hash of arguments about confabulation.

ZooGuard (talk)18:06, 5 February 2014

Maybe I'm missing something here but I don't see anything particularly objectionable in the posts.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)18:49, 5 February 2014

That's why I wrote "blog comments" in the thread title - E.Loftus and her involvement in the FMSF got mentioned in at least one of the comment threads.

ZooGuard (talk)10:03, 6 February 2014

I've always had some trepidation about the way FMSF has used the term "syndrome." That said, recovered memory proponents repeatedly make the mistake that research on false memory and confabulation precludes the possibility of "recovered" memories. (By recovered, I mean late recall, not the use of quack therapies intended to draw out "repressed" memories.) It is a straw man -- both the literature and the APA only repudiate the notions that a, recovered memory of trauma and sexual abuse is commonplace and b, that it can be done through recovered memory "therapy."

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)14:47, 6 February 2014