Thread by @MrLilburne

"This trial is the first time Elizabeth Loftus has used her 'science' to support the notion that desire for cash could cause a brain to create false traumatic memory

There's NO data to support this notion, but the Defense led Loftus to suggest it anyway"

abc.net.au/news/2021-12-2…

https://twitter.com/MrLilburne/status/1471551459728711687

"Elizabeth Loftus's brand new theory of false memory — which appears to be unsupported by any evidence — plays into a very dangerous gendered stereotype about women who speak out"

#GhislaineMaxwellTrial
abc.net.au/news/2021-12-2…

Loftus once did a study trying implant a false memory of a rectal enema that had never occurred

"Isn't it true that not one participant later claimed to have this memory?" Lara Pomerantz, an Assistant US Attorney prosecuting the case, asked Loftus

"Yes"

abc.net.au/news/2021-12-2…

"The idea of 'false memory' is old hat—it's routinely used to defend those accused of inflicting abuse

"In a fascinating moment the prosecution asked Loftus

'You wrote a book called Witness For The Defense?'

'Yes'

'Have you ever written a book called Impartial Witness?'

'No'

A lawyer asked Loftus questions to show that she's never practiced as therapist:

"So you really don't know anything about CSA?"

Loftus replied "I do know something because I was abused at 6"

Later Loftus wrote "the memory flew out at me—out of blackness of the past—full force"