Comments | eric_hinkle: The Satanic Panic strikes back! Or, the only thing we learn from history...

eric_hinkle

The Satanic Panic strikes back! Or, the only thing we learn from history...

Aug 18, 2007 13:08

...is that people learn nothing from history.

Have just started reading a book by one Brian Pendergrast titled VICTIMS OF MEMORY. It's all about how the whole 'false memory' thing and the resulting accusations of incest have lead to an incredible amount of misery and torment. ( Read on for a real horror story )

false memory, history, therapists, witch scares

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dennisthetiger August 18 2007, 18:02:07 UTC

This almost sounds like the McMartin issue from a decade or so ago.

eric_hinkle August 18 2007, 18:19:56 UTC

You're not quite right. I'll probably reveal the real story on Monday just to give other folks a chance.

stokerbramwell August 18 2007, 20:51:17 UTC

Salem, perhaps?

eric_hinkle August 20 2007, 16:14:46 UTC

You're slightly closer than dennisthetiger, in time if not space.

anonymous August 19 2007, 16:46:40 UTC

Sounds like Salem to me, too.

Brock

Do we really still send people to jail in this country based on spectral evidence? anonymous August 19 2007, 21:26:02 UTC

Yes. How do you think Janet Reno started her career back when she was an anonymous DA in Florida?

Re: Do we really still send people to jail in this country based on spectral evidence? eric_hinkle August 20 2007, 16:16:10 UTC

She is mentioned in Pendergrast's book. Abd he does say that she did make her big jumo into national notoriety by handling some rather suspect incest cases in Florida. But she had a lot of company -- I'm scared to realize just how ambitious (and unethical) so many DAs can be.